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| APII Testbed |
 Introduction |
 Background
At the 6th APEC Ministerial Meeting (1994, Jarkata, Indonesia) and APEC TELMIN1, (1995 Seoul, Korea), Ministers agreed to advance the information infrastructure and to establish the APII in the Asia Pacific region. The APII Testbed project was jointly proposed by Korea and Japan at the 12th APEC TEL Meeting in Shanghai, China in 1995. At the 3rd TELMIN, held in Singapore, Ministers provided their full support for the APII Test-bed Project in the Singapore Declaration of June 1998, which instructed member economies "to take proactive steps to facilitate interconnectivity and interoperability of these infrastructures so as to feul the larger APEC goal of the APII."
In order to implement the commitments made at the 1st TELMIN, the establishment of Asia Pacific Information Infrastructure(APII) Cooperation center was approved at the 2nd TELMIN, held in Gold Coast, Australia. The major task of APII Cooperation Center is to coordinate joint endeavors of the APEC member economies to build the APII, which would link economies in the region with an advanced telecommunications network. As a way to achieve this goal, APII Cooperation Center was charged with the APII Testbed Project.
The APII Testbed Project aims at testing the interoperability and interconnectivity of the APII. At the 3rd TELMIN, held in Singapore, Ministers provided their full support for the APII Test-bed Project in the Singapore Declaration of June 1998, which instructed member economies "to take proactive steps to facilitate interconnectivity and interoperability of these infrastructures so as to feul the larger APEC goal of the APII."
Objectives
The objectives of the APII Test-bed Project are :
- to conduct joint R&Ds in application services such as next generation Internet-related technologies to provide on the APII
- to modernize telecom networks, and to contribute in building the regional information infrastructure that will form the basis for achieving sustainable growth in the region,
- to test interconnectivity and interoperability in a number of domestic broadband test-beds currently being developed or planned in the future in the region
Future plan
APII Cooperation Center plans to expand the project with more participation from the APEC member economies in the future. Since one of the goals the APII Testbed Project is seeking for is international cooperation, Korea is interested in having connections with developing countries especially.
The APII Testbed Project is to effectively construct the APII and will help further contribute in realizing a global information infrastructure. |
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