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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 1992 23:17:21 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      PACIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT (from PACIFIC) (fwd)

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 10:42:11 -0700
From: hardyck@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU
Subject: PACIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETING


THE FIRST MEETING OF MEMBER INSTITUTIONS OF THE
PACIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT WILL BE HELD IN
HONOLULU, HAWAII ON JANUARY 14-15, 1993.

        This announcement is being sent to many of the attendees
of INET 92,  resident in  Pacific Rim Countries.   The Pacific
Neighborhood Project (PNP) was first announced at the Third
Annual Meeting of  Pacific Rim Public University Presidents,
held in Seoul, Korea, April 6-8, 1992 and was formally approved
and supported by the participants in the Presidents meeting.  A
second announcement of the project was made at INET and
invitations to join were offered at that time.  The majority of
members have already received notification.  This announcement
is to  provide information for individuals unable to attend the
APCCIRN meeting at INET.  The Pacific Neighborhood Project
welcomes additional attendees at the first Pacific Neighborhood
Consortium meeting, to be held at the Hyatt Hotel, Waikiki,
Honolu, Hawaii, January 14-15, immediately preceding the
meeting of the Pacific Telecommunciations Council. This is
the organizational meeting and such issues as number of meetings,
locations, formation of task forces to work on issues of
mutual information exchange, membership conditions and provision
of services and benefits, will be discussed at this meeting.
For a detailed list of the topics of discussion, please request the
extended description of the Pacific Neighborhood Project, as
described in the following paragraphs.

        Member institutions may send two individuals to the
meeting with no registration charge.  Representatives of
institutions not currently members of the PNP may attend at a
registration fee of US $425.

        A summary description of the PNP follows, with an
extended description available on request.


The Pacific Neighborhood Project

Executive Summary


        The Pacific Neighborhood Project is a program to develop
international agreements on the facilitation of scholarly
exchanges of information through the shared use of computing
and communications technology.  The participants in the project
work to develop a common strategy of information management
applicable to all participating Pacific Rim countries,
comprehensive enough to allow pragmatic exchange and
sufficiently flexible to adapt to technological change into the 21st
century.

        The participants in the Pacific Neighborhood Project are
(1) the universities of the Pacific Rim countries, both public and
private, participating in a consortium to accomplish the goals of
improved scholarly and cultural communication, (2) affiliated
institutions concerned with education, cultural exchange and
international agreement and, (3) corporate and governmental
organizations with interests in information management and
exchange.  A common theme for participants is an interest in the
fostering of improved exchange of scholarly, cultural and
economic information of mutual interest.

        Membership in the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium is
achieved by a commitment by the applicant institution to
contribute resources of personnel and support costs as
appropriate to participate in the activities of the consortium. and
by the payment of an annual membership fee.

        The Project was initiated at the University of California,
Berkeley, with the assistance and support of the Asia
Foundation.  The first formal presentation and request for
participation was made at the Third annual conference of Pacific
Rim Public University Presidents, with an additional
presentation at the Internet Society meeting in Kobe, Japan, 1992

        The University of California, Berkeley will act as the
initial administering agency for the project.  When the Pacific
Neighborhood Consortium is formally established as a multi-
national group, a steering committee will be formed to represent
the membership of the participants.  The steering committee will
function as an oversight and informational body for the groups
and committees that must carry out the actual work needed to
bring the project goals into actuality.

        For additional information and for an extended description
of the Pacific Neighborhood Project, please contact:

Professor Curtis Hardyck, Director, Pacific Neighborhood Project,
International & Area Studies, Room 4511 Tolman Hall
University of California, Berkeley, CA  94720, USA
Telephone:  (510) 642-7967     Fax:  (510) 642-6851
Electronic mail:  hardyck@violet. berkeley.edu or

hardyck@ucbviol.bitnet

A partial list of participating institutions follows:

Australia
        The Australian National University
        The Australian National Library
        The University of Wollongong
Canada
        The University of British Columbia
China
        Fudan University
        Peking University
Hong Kong
        The University of Hong Kong
        The Chinese University of Hong Kong
        City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Japan
        The University of Tokyo
        The University of Kyoto
Korea
        Seoul National University
Mexico
        Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mongolia
        Mongolian State University
Papua New Guinea
        The University of Papua New Guinea
Philippines
        The University of the Philippines
Russia
        Far Eastern State University
Singapore
        The National University of Singapore
Thailand
        Chulalongkorn University
USA
        University of Alaska
        University of California, Berkeley
        University of California, Office of the President
        University of California, San Diego
        University of California, Santa Barbara
        University of California, San Francisco
        The East-West Center, Hawaii
        The Oregon State System of Higher Education

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