Higher Engineering Education Network IHENet Steering Committee Outline

Higher Engineering Education Network IHE-Net Steering Committee

Outline Work Force / Demand of IT in Indonesia. n Architecture of Academic Information Infrastructure (AII). n Internet Application in Indonesia. n Summary. n

Internet User Profile 40 -60 million users. n >90% are university educated. n 70 -80% are male. n US$40 -60. 000 / year. IT based business n is run by educated people!

Demand of IT? KOMPAS, 4 March 1997: n 80. 110. 060 (100%) total work force. n 56. 033. 911 (69. 95% ) in agriculture, forestry, fishery, Only mining -small at the most SD. number n 12. 193. 652 (15. 2%) in trade, retail business & is a potential IT user services - high school graduates. Only small percentage n 2. 868. 140 (3. 5%) financial, private sector & in a competitive services is - post-high school graduates. business n Approximately 60. 000 (0. 1%) are on Internet.

It is a shame. . . More than half via ITB Only 19% of high school graduate receiving higher education in Indonesia. Business Environment n Only approx. 40 higher educational is not forcing people Strongtodemand for institutions connected Internet. tohalf) be through competitive? Mostly(more than ITB. continuing education n Only 0. 1% of the work force are in a competitive business environment. n

Indonesian Speed to Internet

Indonesia Edu-Network

Arch. of Nat’l Info Infrastructure Multimedia, Real Time, Telecomm IP, Routing, Domain, BGP-4, OSPF, RSPF, - expertise NNTP, of. IGRP, DNS, TCP, UDP, Transfer Credit ICMP, MBONE, Multicast, RIP, SMTP, Unregistered. FTP, Radio Frequency for Education HTTP, ARP, RARP, POP 2, POP 3 Unlicensed ISP for Education Telkom, Satelindo, Indosat, Tax Incentive / Break to support Education Web, Video Conference, News, List, Arta, FTP, Tele-Medicine, CSM, Mailing Lintas Elektrindo EDI, Tele-Education, E-Commerce

Where is IHE-NET in the picture? IHE-NET is in the application layer. n It focuses on the interaction of the educational society. n

Basic Strategies Try to use the existing infrastructure or build your own whenever possible. n Employed Qualified Human Resource. n The most difficult task!

IHE-Net Strategies in HEE-Net application layer development. n Strategies in legal framework to support HEE-Net. n Strategies in IT & Telecommunication infrastructure. n

Purpose of IHE-Net To promote the exchange of information and human resources among institutions and even individuals and realize the mutual benefits in the collaborating partners. n To enhance the quality and capability of engineering education by improving the teaching staff competence in teaching and research activities. n

Purpose of IHE-Net Setup of information exchange networks n Education promotion. n Research activity promotion. n Teaching staff. n Event and publications.

Purpose of IHE-Net Education promotion n Standardization of the curriculum. n Student exchange programs. n Transfer of credits. n Faculty member exchange programs. n Exchange of class lessons by multimedia.

Purpose of IHE-Net Research activity promotion n Organization of an annual international seminar / workshop on the network. n Support for the participants to international seminars, conferences and symposiums. n Establishment of domestic academic societies.

Purpose of IHE-Net Research acitivies promotion con’t. . n Support for year-wise collaboration researches on a specific field or a subject. n Organization of a periodical international seminar, conference, or symposium on a specific field or a subject. n Support for research works at Japanese supporting universities.

Strategies in The Application Layer It will require sometime For example, we can do live broadcast contact through seminars, should followed by virtual contact It. Physical has be been done between Hong Kong (might be 1 -2 years) n First, one has to have some knowledge on of regular seminars through workshops, conferences on throughof. E-mail through University Sciencediscussions & Technology (HKUST) theto resources & expertise of the other parties. get the results of such activities. Multicast Backbone (MBONE) and Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) various topics. various mailing lists facilities in Internet. Web applications over our AI 3 link would be n Second, LMO doing “link & match”. many university administrators are n Third, use of to multimedia technology. perfect fit to it. using printed media (and most of n Fourth, mutual collaboration could be time difficult to situation ask for it) initiatedthe by keeping a win-win among parties.

Strategies in Telecom Infrastructure Educational institutions will rely on telco services for its telecommunication infrastructure. n Educational institution should run its own Internet operation on top of telco highways. n

Summary Internet would be one of the best media for building the required Indonesian human resources. n Internet is only a tool. n n The key factor is on the qualified human resource employed.