APAN Secretariat Report

APAN Secretariat Report 25 January 2008 Dr. Vimolrat Ng. MD of APAN Secretariat vimolrat@apan.net

Agenda • APAN Secretariat Activities • Financial Report for FY2007 • Budget Plan for FY2008 • Organization Updates

APAN Sec Activities • Host, maintain and update the APAN Website www.apan.net • Maintain all APAN mailing lists • Maintain APAN mail server • Maintain CCIRN website www.ccirn.org • Various announcements: Call for Papers, Call for Host, etc. • Provide ‘Monthly Newsletter’

APAN Servers TH www.apan.net KR rsync JP • MASTER APAN Server • UniNet • master.apan.net • Web Server • Mail Server • Mailing List rsync www.apan.net Mirror Master APAN Server NECTEC

APAN Sec Activities (Cont’d) • Provide meeting summary reports as well as posting the reports to the APAN website in a timely manner • All Past APAN meetings • Program Committee monthly VC meetings

APAN Sec Activities (Cont’d) • Collect membership fees • Encourage potential groups to perceive the importance of being APAN members and assist them in subscribing process • Provide services to potential and existing APAN members • Process and maintain applications • Respond to inquiries and requests

APAN Sec Activities (Cont’d) • Publish organization’s important information in pamphlets, brochures and other mediums • Assist and provide optimum financial support for 25th APAN Meeting fellows (23 fellows) • Survey and encourage many countries to become APAN members in Asia-Pacific region

APAN Sec Activities (Cont’d) • Announce mailing lists consisted more than 1,000 important contact points in Asia-Pacific region • Provide announcements (CFPs, Conferences, Meetings, Workshops, etc.) frequently for these contacts

APAN Sec Activities (Cont’d) • Provide general support for APAN members, committee and working groups • Coordinate with members in updating APAN link • Prepare information as per requests

Financial Report(Jan 07 – Dec 07)

Table 1: Primary Member Contribution Based on Gross GDPhttp://www.apan.net/member/member-right.htm

Table 2:Membership Fees

Table 2: Membership Fees (Cont’d)

Table 3: Receivable MembershipFees for FY 2005 – 2007

Table 4: Receivable Surplus

Table 5: Expenses for FY2007

Table 6: Balance of FY 2007

Table 7: Membership Fees for 2008

Table 8: Budget Plan for FY2008

Table 9: Expected Balance of 2008

Table 10: Comparison of balance * * Expected balance

Table 11: Comparison of Expenses *

Figure 12: Comparison Chart of Expected Expense *expected expenses

Organization Updates • APAN Secretariat has closed the bank account of APAN Limited Partnership in Thailand. • The new bank account will open in Singapore by SingAREN in order to reduce TAX so all transferring of membership fees will go to this new one.

Thank you for your attention sec@apan.net

Table 7: Year Balance

Table 8: Membership Fees of 2008

Table 12: Revenue in Jan 08

Figure 15: Comparison Chart of Total Expensesand Tax *expected expenses

APAN Secretariat Report