1. APN Project Report Guoqing Li NRSCC/CEODE Presented to WGISS-27, Toulouse, France May, 2009

2. Outlines  What is APN?  WGISS contribution to APN  Approved APN projects  Following activities

3. What is APN?  The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is an inter-governmental network for the promotion of global change research and links between science and policy making in the Asia-Pacific Region.  HQ in Japan

4. WGISS contribution to APN  Dr. Martha, the WGISS chairwoman, forwarded the information of APN 2007 call to us.  WGISS partners submitted a proposal to answer APN call. APN Project WGISS members involved in this proposal

5. WGISS contribution to APN （ cont ）  Topic of the proposal Inter-agency Earth Observation information collaborate technologies changing the Globe Change research in Asian Pacific Region

6. WGISS contribution to APN （ cont ）  The target of this project is to  bring the experience and knowledge on EO from CEOS/WGISS to scientists in the AP area,  discuss how to use the new EO information technology,  find appropriate approaches to develop their global change models based on this new EO capability and support,  call for cooperation on building the AP regional GC scientific data sharing platform.

7. WGISS contribution to APN （ cont ）  What’s WGISS role?  Initial idea of such proposal.  Playing the leadership in the application.  Professional experience on this topic.  Main force of the proposal team.  Main force of the project team.

8. Proposed APN T-Workshop Next Generation SDI Spatial Data Data Processing Data accessing Model Application Knowledge Global Change Global Change Earth Observation Earth Observation

9. Scientists of Global Change Research in AP area Experts on Advance EO Data technology And architecture Training workshop Knowledge Transfer Tools Skill Training Hand Book Call on GC-APWG

10. Collaboration with Others APNProject UNGAID/eSDDC CEOS/WGISS GEO/ADC ISCU-AP IEEE ASC CODATA/TGDC

11. Approved APN Proposal  The first seed grant project was approved at the April of 2008 (USD10,000)  With target to make much better communication  Bangkok meeting, July of 2008

12.  The second project was approved last month, April of 2009 (USD$38,000)  Training workshop in East Asia Area.  APN hopes WGISS and ICSU can support to operate such projects continually for SE Asia and Pacific island countries in the following three years.

13. Following activities in 2009  APN+ICSU+WGISS+UNGAID joint workshop in ISDE-6 conference  10th of September, 2009  Beijing, China  APN international training workshop  September 12~15, 2009  Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

14.  Who will be there ? WGISS: Guoqing Li, Chuang Liu, Dingsheng Liu, Pakorn A., Luigi Fusco, Jean-Pierre Antikidis GEO ADC: Jiashen Zhang CODATA: Chuang Liu, Paul Uhlir, Togtoh Chuluun IEEE: Liping Di, UNGAID: Chuang Liu ISCU-AP:Mohd Nordin Hasan ASC: Chuang Liu APN HQ:Linda Anne Stevenson and other participants from Japan, South Korea, Russia and Malaysia. Totally attendees will be about 40 persons.

16. We need support from WGISS…  Welcome other WGISS members to attend both Beijing and Ulaanbaatar meetings.  Hope WGISS can identify some materials ( handbooks, recommendations and showcases ) to be disseminated and published to this APN project, before 1 st of July.  Topic related also:  Data democracy  CODATA whitepaper on data sharing principle

17. Thank you!