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All APNG 13th Camp Fellows will be running for this award, the presentation award will be based on:

(total 40points, each items 8 points)

■ Novelty of the paper
■ Usability of the paper
■ Feasibility of the paper
■ Accuracy of the paper
■ Propriety of the paper
■ Presentation Skills 1. Clarity
■ Presentation Skills 2. Conciseness
■ Presentation Skills 3. Organization

There will be The best award, 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up for this award. And there will be very attractive prizes for the award such as iPod…  Just get a good preparation for the presentation ,Fellows!!

http://www.apngcamp.asia/program/

1. Sangdao Prontaweechoksaku, Thailand
2. Angel Mukankunga, Korea
3. QianQi Jiang, China
4. Ling Jin, China
5. Kim Escobin, Philippines
6. Nay Yan Oo, Myanmar
7. Syarul Emy Abu Samah, Malaysia
8. Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, Bangladesh
9. Yanan Sun, China
10. Thura Aung, Myanmar
11. Kashif Adeel, Pakistan
12. Auttaphong Chula-ong, Thailand
13. Nargish Fatema, Bangladesh
14. Umma Kulsum Khan, Bangladesh
15. Sam Goundar, Fiji
16. Shams Ahmad, Pakistan
17. Nguyễn Tuấn Dũng, Vietnam
18. Justinus Andjarwirawan, Indonesia
19. Dang Thi Huong Tra, Vietnam
20. Adi Paramita, Indonesia
21. Eranga, Sri Lanka – LK Local Camp
22. Mulola, Rwanda
23. Gueye, Senegal
24. Tohru Kondo, Japan
25. Wit Hmone Tin Latt, Myanmar
26. Esmond Esguerra, Philippines
27. Xiaohui Shi, China
28. Ting Liu, China
29. Srimal Andrahennadi, Sri Lanka

Fellowship package will cover the following:
a) Camp registration fees
b) Local accommodation
c) Roundtrip discount economy airfare and local transportation NOT EXCEEDING 600 USD (excluding African Fellows)
e) Breakfast, Lunch, Refreshments & Dinner provided during the Camp period

Airfare over 600 USD will not be covered under the fellowship package. There are no exceptions to this condition.(excluding African Fellows)

Refer to the information below for further details on registration, accommodation, transportation and meals.

2. Registration
Fellows are not required to register in advance for the Camp.

3. Accommodation

The Harobourview Hong Kong

http://www.theharbourview.com.hk/eng/hongkong-hotel-map-and-transportation.jsp

4 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 28020111

Twin sharing rooms are provided for accepted fellows. Room assignments will be made by the
Secretariat.

Accommodation will be provided for five (5) nights: check-in 20 February (Sun.) until 25 February (Fri.)
Full participation in the Camp is a MUST. It is not possible to participate in only a portion of the Camp program. Pleasemake your travel plans to match the dates above.

4. Meals
Breakfast:
provided at the hotel from 21 to 25 February.

Lunch and refreshments:
provided from 21 to 24 February.

Dinner:
provided from 21 to 24 February.

All other meals are the responsibility of the fellow.

5. Reimbursement of Travel Expenses

Fellows are required to purchase their air ticket and to pay for local transportation to and from their arrival airport themselves.

ALL fellows are required to submit a Camp Report to the APNG Secretariat by 10 March 2011. Upon receipt and confirmation of your report, the APNG Secretariat will refund your airfare and local transportation expenses.

6. Confirmation of Acceptance

Please read carefully ALL of the conditions of support above.

If fellows wish to accept the Camp Fellowship under these conditions, please reply in confirmation to the Local Secretariat at the address below NO LATER THAN 21 January 2011. We would only send the acceptance statement for visa application after fellows accepted the fellowship. As the schedule for the 13th APNG Camp is held on February (which is usually held on the month of July), we appreciate the cooperation on confirming the participation to the camp as early as possible.

If the acceptance is not received by the deadline above, the fellowship will be cancelled and assigned to another applicant.

7. Contact

ALL responses, questions etc. in regard to the Fellowship and the participation in the Camp should be forwarded to the Local Secretariat at the address below:

Matthew Hui

13th APNG Camp Secretariat (Hong Kong)
email: sec@apngcamp.asia
Tel: +852 65942807

Thank you again for the interest and support to the 13th APNG Camp. We look forward to your confirmation and your participation in Hong Kong.

Overview:
The 13th Asia Pacific Next Generation (APNG) Camp will be held on 21-25 February 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Wanchai North, Hong Kong. The 13^th Camp will be held in conjunction with APRICOT-APAN 2011, the first ever joint event of APRICOT and APAN making it the biggest internet conference in Asia Pacific.

Theme: “One with Asia Pacific and Beyond”

The APNG Camp is:

• Where future Internet leaders in the AP Region meet together.
• Where AP Seniors and the Next Generation learn and work together.
• Where AP perspective of the Internet is shared and discussed.

Keeping the fact in our mind that the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow, APNG and its camp activities are not only empowering the Next Generation who has the power of developmental assets and an innovative and fresh point of view on Internet Technology but also bonding and strengthening relationship among senior leaders and the youth to share and discuss over perspectives of today’s Internet in Asia Pacific.

The very FIRST camp was held in Bangkok in year 2002 and even since its inception, we had successfully organized ten camps in the past whereas the recent one was the 12th Camp organized in Hiroshima, Japan in 2010. We are hoping to celebrate another important milestone in APNG history and achievements with 13th APNG Camp in Hong Kong, China next year.

The APNG Camp Committee now invites qualified applicants to apply for fellowship funding to participate in the 13^thAPNG Camp in Hong Kong, SAR.

Who can participate?

The APNG Camp Fellowship Program targets personnel from developing countries who are actively involved in Internet development, in any of the following roles:

• Young network architects/developers/engineers.
• Young decision makers in government, educational, non-government, commercial, non-profit sectors related to Internet development.
• Young on-line activists in (and not limited to) social science, business, environment, gender equivalence, entertainment, etc.

Award Package

1. Fellowship for International Applicants
   Fellowship package will cover

• camp registration fees
• local accommodation
• local transportations
• roundtrip cheapest economy airfare (Full/Partial)
• meals: Lunch, Refreshments and Dinner will be provided during camp period

1. Fellowship for Local Applicants
   This is a special fellowship package to encourage participation from Hong Kong youth who are interested/ involved in Internet Technology Development. Local fellowship package will cover

• camp registration fee
• local transportation (train-fare/bus-fare) if necessary
• meals: Lunch, Refreshments and Dinner will be provided during camp period

The final grant size is determined according to final costs and available funding, of which successful applicants will be duly informed.

Eligibility:
The fellowship recipients will be selected based on:

1. Residency in a developing country
2. Full-time student of a university or college (public or private), or
3. Employed by Internet-related company and in the age less than 35 years old
4. Willingness to return to APNG Camp as a presenter or trainer in future
5. Willingness and capability to present your country’s culture/heritage/traditions/costume
6. Presentation materials and a 2-page paper submitted for APNG Camp “Call for Presentation”. The presentations/papers are expected to align with one of the following topics:

i.            Internet Technology

ii.            e-Culture and Green ICT

iii.            Ubiquitous Networking

iv.            Disaster Management and e- Health

*The 13^th APNG Camp will revive the Internet history Museum Working Group

Applicants from any part of the world will be considered, however it is expected that the majority of fellows selected will be from Asia-Pacific region.

All applications will be reviewed by the APNG Fellowship Selection Committee and only those applications will be evaluated who meet the above‐mentioned selection criteria and submitted to the camp secretariat within the defined timelines. The final decision of selecting any applicant is with Camp Chair / Executive Committee.

To get good chances for fellowship you are required to complete the form in all respects.

Schedule:
Dates to Remember
The following deadlines will apply to the APNG 12th Camp Fellowship Program:

– Public Announcement: 15 September 2010
– Fellowship Applications Deadline: 10 December 2010
– Selection Announcement: Early January 2011

Application:
If you meet the criteria for fellowship mentioned above and you are interested in joining the future AP Leaders, we encourage you to apply to the 13^th APNG Camp. Please prepare the following documents and submit them to us within the applications deadline mentioned.

1.    Fellowship application form (Attached is the application form)

2.    A two page paper (Attached is the paper template)

3.    Presentation file (please aim 15-20 minutes presentation time including question and answer)

4.    Local camp fellows are required to complete the local camp reports and submit to Ms Wit Hmone Latt (email) with theirfellowship applications not later than 10 November 2010.

An acknowledgment letter shall be sent to you after you send your application to (secretariat email). Should you not receive an acknowledgment, please resend your application to ensure that it is with the Camp Secretariat before the deadline.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 13^th APNG Camp will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions of high quality papers and presentations on all topics in the general areas of ICT. Topics of interest in thefour tracks include:
1. E‐Culture and Green ICT

One of the greatest threats to our society and the Next Generation is the global warming. It is estimated that the CO2 emissions of the ICT industry alone exceeds the carbon output of the entire aviation industry. The ICT industry and research community has a collective responsibility to address this problem. With a firm belief that Asia Pacific Next Generation will stand up to be the leaders in reducing Global Warming effect, protecting the world’s nature and climate to create a more sustainable development for our people with a sustainable environment, Internet Culture Working Group (WG) introduces a new focus for discussion at the 12th APNG Camp: Green ICT, and thus, changing our WG name to E‐Culture and Green ICT to emphasize the importance of being environmentally responsible to AP‐ ICT users and developers.

At the 12th APNG Camp, E‐Culture and Green ICT Working Group would like to invite
candidates who are interested in presenting their professional or academic research
experiences (case studies/research papers) on the development of ICT and its implications in the Asia and Pacific to attempt to bring together a complete spectrum of social issues encountered regionally. The focus areas for the e‐Culture & Green ICT WG include (but are not limited to):

a)      Green ICTs:
- The Environmental Impacts of ICTs
- ICTs’ Smart applications to tackle Climate Change
- Clean ICT Innovations for a Green Future
- Country ‐ Specific case studies

b) E‐Culture:
The topics from the previous APNG Camp’s will be further discussed but theirs centre of
attention will be How ICT and its applications have improved and developed human life.
- E‐Services
- e‐Learning and e‐News (online newspapers, online TV broadcasting etc.)
- e‐Health
- e‐Banking and e‐Business
- e‐Agriculture
- Digital Governance (e‐Governance, e‐Democracy)
- e‐Contents (Local Content, language accessibility on Internet)
- e‐Entertainment (Online Games, online Karaoke, Online photo studios etc.)
- e‐Society ( Facebook, Blogs, Twitter etc.)
- ICTs for Marginalized People
- Digital Divide
- Gender, Ethnic and ICT Issues
- ICT for Disabilities
- Internet Accessibility
2. Internet Technology

The 12th APNG Camp for Internet Technology Working Group seeks papers describing
significant research contributions in the field of Internet Technology as a whole. We invite
submissions on Next Generation of Internet Technology, Internet Humanity, Security and
Privacy and Next Generation of Green Technology. We would like to invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation.
The interest areas are as below (but not limited to):

- IPV6 Issues and its application
- Internet and Application Security
- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
- Authentication and Access Control for Data Protection
- Issues of Internet Security
- Broadband access technologies
- Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis
- Challenges of Content Authoring
- Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain
- Data Grids
- Data and Information Quality Management
- Digital Libraries
- Data Models for Production Systems and Services
- Defense Systems
- Distributed Information Systems
- Government, and Corporate Internet Security Policy
- Information visualization
- Intelligent Multimedia Service and Data management
- IPSec Quality of Services
- Knowledge Management
- Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
- Mobile Data Management
- Natural Language Processing
- Internet Technologies Regulation, Self‐Regulation, and Co‐Regulation
- Semantic Web and Ontology
- Trust, Privacy, and Data Security
- Web Metrics and its Applications
- Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
- Web Services
- Wireless Transactions
- Green Internet Technologies

3. Ubiquitous Networking

Ubiquitous Networking WG calls for papers that provide technical discussions and field experiences related to ubiquitous networking. The topic includes the following but not limited to:

- Sensors and the Internet
- Sensor applications
- Facility networks
- Satellite communication
- Ad hoc networks
- Delay or disruption tolerant networks
- Opportunistic networks
- Overlay networks
- Wireless networks
- Wi‐Fi application
- Wireless network security
- Wireless energy
- Wireless and linux embedded devices
- Wimax
- Operational experiences on sensors
- Operational experiences on wireless networking

4. Disaster Management and e‐ Health

Asia and the pacific region is routinely exposed to almost every type of hazards, mainly natural. There should be a considerable scope for reducing hazards and improving disaster management in the region. In this work group we are mainly focusing how we can improve the Disaster Management and eHealth in the region as the joint effort. Following topics were discussed in earlier camps and would like to continue further discussions on those topics.

- Bring an awareness of the need for DM and available standards, technologies to the participants.
- Brain storm on types of disasters, categorize them and how would IT requirement differ.
- Promote DM solutions in respective countries of the participants.
- Form a group skilled in DM solutions who can volunteer to deploy and train in the event of a disaster.
- Identify other project areas that could collaborate with DM. E.g. The live‐e project
- Efficient Disaster response system design proposal
- Applicability of sensor network under disaster scenario.
- Disaster preparedness and pre‐ disaster situation monitoring.
- eHealth for Disaster Situation Management
- eHealth Systems and Security
- eHealth Management
- eHealth Records and Software
- eHealth Projects and Ideas
- Disaster Management Projects and Ideas

We are kindly requesting submissions on above topics. However we may consider any relevant presentations on relevant projects and research.

Call for Paper and Fellowship (for international) Closed
– Public Announcement: 15 September 2010
– Fellowship Application Deadline: 10 November 2010 10 December 2010 (deadline extended)
– Selection Announcement: Late Dec 2010 Early Jan 2011 (extended)

Regular Registration:

Register through online application: 30 Jan 2011 (extended)