Media release

International connectivity

“REANNZ warmly welcomes the Government’s initiative to invest in additional international telecommunications capacity to meet the future needs of the research and education sector. This will provide a step-change in opportunities for the KAREN community to collaborate and innovate”, said Donald Clark, REANNZ Chief Executive, today after the Government budget announcements.

The National Information Society Agency (NIA) in Korea has issued an invitation for international partners in network technology and applications research and working groups.

ResearchChannel has invited New Zealand researchers to take part in the public beta test of Research1.

Mike Culver's visit to REANNZ is taking place at 1pm Tuesday 19 February.

Mike Culver an Evangelist for Amazon Web Services is visiting REANNZ as part of his February trip to Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand academics, researchers and repository managers are invited to take part in a short survey to develop a framework in the UK for the identification of versions of objects in digital repositories.

Building KAREN Communities for Collaboration 2 - 5 July 2007

Excitement is mounting as registrations for this forum pour in from wide and far across the research, education, innovation and government sectors.

Through REANNZ's international partnership with Taiwanese network, TWAREN, and Singaporean Network, SingAREN, KAREN members now have improved access to their peers in these countries. KAREN recently signed Memoranda of Understanding with TWAREN and SingAREN confirming peering arrangements, and as a result widening the reach of KAREN and speeding up access to international collaboration partners in these countries.

Peering is an interconnection of separate networks or groups of networks allowing the exchange of traffic between network customers.

The British Library has digitised and made available online two of Leonardo da Vincis' notebooks - called the Codex Leicester and the Codex Arundel.

Does all of the jargon that comes with eResearch confuse you?

APAC 07

The biennial Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch will be held in Perth, 8-12 October 2007.  This event is the biggest of its kind in Australia.

FP7 Global Information Day - 6 March 2007

FP7 (the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development) is an EU fund available to research communities in New Zealand.

Trip Report: APAN23 Manila, January 2003

Donald Clark and Julie Watson from REANNZ and Paul Bonnington from University of Auckland attended the 23rd Asia Pacific Advanced Networks meeting in Manila.  The meeting offered a chance to:

REANNZ staff were fortunate to undertake two international trips during 2006.

From Royal Society Alert No 144 

The latest edition of eJournal USA focuses on science as an international undertaking through a growing array of collaborative efforts, technical journals, conferences, the Internet, and dedicated high-bandwidth data networks for research and education.

REANNZ has signed its first two international partnership agreements with National Lambda Rail (http://www.nlr.net/) and Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/) in the USA. These memoranda of understanding (MoU) will enable New Zealand researchers and educators on these networks to interact and collaboarate seamlessly.

Physicist or interested individual? You can view the startup of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tonight in EVO or via satellite broadcast or a live webcast.