The Australia and New Zealand Workshop on SKA Data and Signal Processing is coming to an Access Grid node near you.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is the global contest to select best practice in e-Content and innovative ICT applications.

Get involved in the PDCAT associated workshops in high performance computing, sensor networks, multi-core programming, data grids, and web 2.0 applications, 1-4 December 2008, Dunedin.

Network engineer or specialist in network measurement and monitoring? You can not miss the perfSONAR workshop at APAN26 Sustainable Networking, 4-8 August.

Today Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe announced the release the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 for public consultation.

Design and Second Life at Victoria University's School of Design was big news on TVNZ's Breakfast show last Friday.

Genetics researchers at the Wellcome Trust in the UK are generating over 1 Terabyte (1 TB) of data per week reports this article in The Register.  That's around 200 DVD movies worth of data.

KAREN users Chris Brown and Mik Black from the University of Otago featured - along with KAREN itself - on Radio New Zealand National's Our Changing World programme this Thursday, 28 of June.

The progamme will be available as a stream for the coming month at the Radio New Zealand website.  It is also available as a podacast.  (Programme length 12'31'')

A blog entry from Bill St. Arnaud highlighted the use of Amazon's web services to run bioinformatics supercomuting applications.

AARNet with support from NMI-EDIT (Internet2 and EDUCAUSE) and the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Middleware Working Group will hold an Ozeconference/information primer for the APAN community on identity management. This is the first of three sessions on this topic. This first presentation takes place via video conference or web cast at 9.00am Australian Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday 30 May 2007. The presentation will cover the following areas:

The British Library has digitised and made available online two of Leonardo da Vincis' notebooks - called the Codex Leicester and the Codex Arundel.

AARNet High Definition (HD) Video Conferencing session

AARNet will hold an Ozeconference/information session on High Definition Video Conferencing at 2.00pm AEDST on Tuesday 13 February 2007.  An invitation to KAREN members to also participate has been kindly extended by James Sankar, AARNet's Director of Applications and Services.

Virtual seminar on "Ancestral networks, and the curse of the unfaithful grandparents"

This seminar is a special 'Virtual' seminar that is being simultaneously presented at University of Auckland and University of Canterbury over Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) using 'portable' AccessGRID technology.

HITLabNZ took part in an international music collaboration using KAREN on 17 January involving University of Canterbury, Western Australia University, Manchester University, Sheffield University, Bristol University, Lancaster University and a couple other sites in UK.  A musician was stationed at each site and together they brought a new meaning to the term "World Music" by playing as an ensemble, despite being separated by thousands of miles.

For those of you not on Bill St Arnaud's mailing list, here is a link to a GEM of an article originally posted on enterprisenetworksandservers.com.  It highlights the cost-effective potential for deploying fibre within your organisation beyond the core.

IPTV trials on JANET go mainstream

UK Company Inuk has been trialing an IPTV multicast service over the UK's advanced network, JANET, for the last year.

From Royal Society Alert No 144 

The latest edition of eJournal USA focuses on science as an international undertaking through a growing array of collaborative efforts, technical journals, conferences, the Internet, and dedicated high-bandwidth data networks for research and education.