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An ASIA-EUROPE Meeting (ASEM) was held from the 1st Dec – 2nd Dec. The workshop offered a platform for sharing best practices and knowledge from national and regional ICT development programmes with a view to offering practical solutions to bridging the digital divide. It explored Euro-Asia cooperation opportunities in that field drawing on successful models such as the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN) which connects the European communication infrastructure for research and education (GEANT) with its counterparts across Asia. The extension of TEIN3 to South Asia was celebrated during this occasion.
The latter idea has the purpose to create villages which can provide themself 60% of their energy needs for house hold and for productive uses. The E3i village concept was started by first establishing Small Processing Unit (SPU) in candidate villages using all or partially the available renewable energy sources in the village, while in the Self Sufficient Energy village (SSEV) program, the first step of the undertaking has been to provide the villages with renewable energy conversion devises.
Collaboration among networks in Asia & the Pacific
In June 2009, UNESCO organized the Expert Meeting on Utilization of ICT Research & Education Networks in Asia & Pacific. The two-day meeting concluded that there are many similarities in needs and interests among the different players in the field of higher education. Among these, there is a strong need for effective use of National Research Education Networks: NRENs. To respond to the need, we created the initiative CONNECT-Asia (COllaboration for Network-enabled Education, Culture, Technology and science)