September 2007 – EntNet to be held with Globecom in 2008 and 2009

Agreement has been reached with Doug Zuckerman, the General Chair of Globecom 2009 on EntNet participation in Globecom 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009. Gabe Jakobson will participate in Globecom 2009 OC meeting scheduled for January 2008.

September 15, 2006 – Situation Management activity initiated

EntNet has started last year a new activity called Situation Management. In 2005 The First Situation Management Workshop SIMA 2005 was organized in collaboration with MILCOM 2005. The second SIMA 2006 will be organized in October with MILCOM 2006 (see http://www.milcom.org/2006/sima.html).A track on Situation Management was held at the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion in Florence Italy. 10-13 July 2006 (see http://fusion.carthel.com/)

July 2006 – Cooperation with ITU-D on e-Healtcare

Associate Professor Pradeep Ray is leading two initiatives. The first one is the ITU-D Question 14 (Telecommunication for Healthcare) which has been extended for the next cycle (2006-2009) by the WSIS. The focus will be mobile e-Health following an initiative on mobile e-Health for developing countries. Our work at Indonesia and India (in Tsunami affected areas) has established the need for e-Health kiosks for village centres in developing countries. Q14 will now study the need and effectiveness of broadband technologies also. The second one is driven by the WHO which has commissioned the first Research Study on e-Health Assessment for Health Care Delivery (eHCD). This initiative, launched in June 2006, is now being conducted in six countries namely India, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Fiji and Sri Lanka.

June 2006 – Preparations for EntNet 2006 Completed

EntNet in 2006 is co-located with the International Engineering Consortium's (IEC) Broadband World Forum Americas in Vancouver, Canada during 12-14 September 2006. After taking advantage of the Exhibit floor at Broadband World Forum Americas, EntNet's Keynote Address, Technology Panel Sessions, Educational Courses and Workshop on Wireless Technologies for Converged Services provide an opportunity to look at where the industry is heading and to discuss burning issues in enterprise technology and business, while listening to leading industry and research experts. We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

May 2006 – Heng-Shuen Chen leads Healthcom 2007

Healthcom in 2007 will focus on Ubiquitous Healthcare (u-Health) based on wireless broadband technologies, particularly in the context of Asian countries such as Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong which have the best coverage of broadband wireless communication in the world today. Heng-Shuen Chen (chenhs@ntu.edu.tw) is the Program Chair of both Healthcom 2006 & 2007. He is Acting Director in the Department of Medical Informatics (School of Medicine) and an Assistant Professor & Attending Physician at the College of Medicine in National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

September 2004

EntNet 2004 e-blast out

The EntNet @ SUPERCOMM 2005 Call for Participation e-blast was mailed out to 55,000 recipients.It includes:

• past EntNet attendees
• Midwest ComSoc members
• ComSoc Conferences Master List
• all people who have submitted an "Intent to Participate" questionnaire, and 
• a list developed by  IEEE ComSoc Marketing Manager  

EntNet TC is organizing Network Management and Security Symposium at Globecomm 2004:

The Dallas area is a major center for the global telecommunications industry and serves as home to many of the largest corporations and also a large number of smaller firms in this industry. Dallas has a rich history of hosting previous ComSoc meetings including Globecom '89 and ICC '96. These meetings were some of the most successful for ComSoc and we look forward again to having an outstanding meeting in 2004. The theme of Globecom 2004 "Emerging Technologies Applications and Services" characterizes the continuing pervasiveness of  telecommunications in all aspects of global society, industry, and government. (more details)

ComSoc and ITU-D cooperation

ITU-D helps develop new recommendations and guidelines for developing countries based on  standards from ITU-T, ITU-R and other standards bodies (e.g., IETF). The results are reported alternate years in the World Summit for Information Society (WSIS) attended by senior members of governments and member organisations.  ITU-D operates through two study groups (they meet once a year in Geneva): Study Group 1 focusses on strategic issues (e.g., adoption of IMTS, development of e-services for economic development) and Study Group focusses on operations and management issues (e.g., pricing of telecom services for rural telecom, e-health and telemedice for remote communities). More details are avilable at the ITU-D web site http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/study_groups/index.asp.

ITU-D management has welcomed the collaboration between IEEE ComSoc and ITU-D and approved our proposal to use Healthcom (technically co-sponsored by ComSoc, founded by the Enterprisde Networking TC)  as the forum their discussions on Question -14 (E-Health for Developing Countries).

Dr. Pradeep Ray has been elected the co-leader of a new initiative in e-health called "Mobile E-Health Services for Developing Countries". This initiative is intended to demonstrate through pilot projects how collaboration between developed and developing countries can lead to a successful e-health policy in developing countries, particularly in remote communities. The pilot projects will address (using mobile wireless technologies)  e-Healthcare activities, such as:

• Emergency telemedicine
• Epidemic Control
• Bio-terrorism situations
• General tele-healthcare

This initiative currently involves a consortium of developed and developing countries including Australia, Bhutan, China, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Russia. More nations are likely join soon.  Hence I'll be in China in Dec'04 and in India in March'05, and in Korea/Japan in June'05.