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The meeting will be by Skype Friday the 16th of November, 8:30am (Pakistan time). That will be 11:30am in Malaysia the same day while 7:30pm on Thursday the 15th of November for Les Pacific Standard time
Purpose
This meeting is to gauge interest, potential avenues to explore and whether to put together a proposal and apply for funding.
- We need to decide what is the scope of the project/proposal. For example:
- Set up an active end-to-end monitoring infrastructure for Malaysia educational sites, similar to that set up in Pakistan.
- Set up low cost, low power monitorable sites (e.g. similar to the ePingER project) in remote regions such as Bario, Long Lamai, and Ba Kalalan.
- Other suggestions.
- If go for funding need to identify potential funding sources.
- Need to identify a lead to put together a joint proposal from (UNIMAS, NUST/SEECS, SLAC, and UM)to a funding source for a joint project to set up.
Agenda
- Proposed Joint Research Partnership between UM, UNIMAS, NUST and SLAC. - Arshad Ali
- Potential sources of funding:
- Malaysia - Abdullah Bin Gani or Nara or both
- Pakistan - Arshad
- What to do until funding or if no funding?
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3. NUST has also been collaborating with Stanford University (SLAC) since 2004 under the PINGER project http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/aimed at Internet measurements in particular focused on developing countries. This has involved students and faculty from NUST Pakistan, plus one year visits by about 17 graduate students so far from NUST to SLAC. As a result they have developed state of the art analysis and presentation tools, and received valuable exposure to Stanford and Silicon Valley. This in turn has led in many cases to fully funded admission to world top ranking universities, and in others to start-up companies. There have also been several 1 to 2 week visits by faculty and staff in both directions. During my recent visit to Stanford University (SLAC), I came to know that UNIMAS is initiating a similar partnership with SLAC.Based on our discussions held at NUST, I proposed to Prof Dr Les Cottrell, a joint research partnership among Stanford (SLAC), NUST, both UNIMAS and UM from Malaysia.
4. If you agree to the proposal, then I will ask NUST lead researcher (Dr Arshad Ali) on this project to coordinate with your designated computer science faculty. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the proposed idea. Under this project joint research funding opportunities can be explored via both Pakistani and Malaysian research funding agencies.
Looking forward for mutually rewarding partnership.
- This meeting is to gauge interest, potential avenues to explore and whether to put together a proposal and apply for funding.
- We need to decide what is the scope of the project/proposal. For example:
- Set up an active end-to-end monitoring infrastructure for Malaysia educational sites, similar to that set up in Pakistan.
- Set up low cost, low power monitorable sites (e.g. similar to the ePingER project) in remote regions such as Bario, Long Lamai, and Ba Kalalan.
- Other suggestions.
- If go for funding need to identify potential funding sources. Need to identify a lead to put together a joint proposal from (UNIMAS, NUST/SEECS, SLAC, and UM)to a funding source for a joint project to set up.Response from UM
Background information
Workshop
- Unimas plan to have a workshop on Pinger when Les comes in December. Unimas will invite participants from universities in West Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, (Brunei and Kalimantan could be added). The idea is to establish regional agreement for types of studies that can be undertaken, the sharing of data and exploration of future projects.
- Unimas have sent an itinerary. It is at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/128455354/Tentative+Itinerary+for+Les+Cotrell+Visit+in+Dec+2012.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1352078021290.
Possible ways to advance would include:- NUST/SEECS have nominated Kashif Satar who is the technical PingER lead at NUST/SEECS to represent Pakistam
- He will make valuable presentations on hands-on experiences (both technical, political and social) with building the archive site, managing multiple monitoring sites, mining the data, engaging customers (monitor sites contacts and decision makers, the network providers PERN (Pakistan Educational and Research Network), the funding agency (Higher Education Commission), preparing reports for the customers, and the benefits ensuing etc.
- NUST/SEECS have nominated Kashif Satar who is the technical PingER lead at NUST/SEECS to represent Pakistam
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Project
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Current state of active end-to-end monitoring for education in Malaysia.
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