The Chief Information Officers (CIO) Forum (formerly known as the CIO Conference) is a platform to gather senior IT leaders and administrators in APRU member universities to build human interaction and a network of APRU ICT leaders to share best practices and solutions, as well as to explore opportunities for multilateral partnerships and collaborative projects among the information technology community in APRU.
See links below for messages from Dr Donald Harris, Chairman of the APRU IT Initiatives Standing Committee.
APRU has launched a series of video conference
sessions with topics and themes based on APRU CIOs’ topics of interest. An objective is to exchange and gain knowledge and expertise, share best practices and explore areas of inter-institutional collaboration in middleware, cyberinfrastructure, multimedia and applicable advanced technologies in support of teaching and research amongst APRU member universities.
The video conference schedule from November 2009 to April 2010 can be found here. To register for any of the sessions, please email the APRU Secretariat at apru@apru.org.
Upcoming session: 3rd Video Conference on IT Security Hosted by: University of Southern California Date: February 9,
2010 (6:00 p.m. Los Angeles time)
Past sessions:
2nd Video Conference on IT Governance Hosted by: University of Indonesia Date: November 19,
2009 (9:00 a.m. Jakarta time) Session synopsis
1st Video Conference on Grid computing Hosted by: National University of Singapore Date: October 21,
2009 (9:00 a.m. Singapore time)
The 1st APRU Video Conference Session on Grid computing was hosted by National University of Singapore on October 21, 2009. The objective was to look at the various forms of Grid computing used at APRU member institutions, share challenges and latest developments in the use of Grid computing in supporting teaching, learning and research.
Over 30 participants were registered across 17 APRU universities from Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. 6 universities presented on their campuses' development, management and use of Grid resources for research computing and infrastructure. Presentation slides and video clips can be found here.
Overview
