APAN-SG – Asia Pacific Advanced Network

Member Name:

APAN-SG

Organization:

Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network

Acronym:

SingAREN

Category:

Primary (Voting) Member

Mailing List:

apan-sg AT apan.net

Website:

http://www.singaren.net.sg/

Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) is Singapore’s national research and education network. It is the sole provider of local and international networks dedicated for serving the Research and Education (R&E) community in Singapore.

SingAREN’s key objectives are:

Advocate and champion advanced network applications and technology in Singapore.
Be the platform of collective representation of the community of research and education networks (REN) in Singapore.
Facilitate cost-competitive adoption of advanced Internet technologies for Singapore RENs.

SingAREN’s members consist of the Institutions of Higher Learning, Government and network industry players. SingAREN supports E-Learning, video-conferences and research data management across international boundaries. SingAREN is also the Roaming Operator for eduroam, a secure wireless internet service developed for the international R&E community.

SingAREN maintains close working relationships with the Next Generation Internet community, such as APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network), Internet2 and TEIN (Trans-Eurasia Information Network).

Contacts:

Chair

Name:

John Kan

Address:

30 Biopolis Street, #08-01C, Matrix, Singapore 138671

Email:

john_kan AT a-star.edu.sg

Phone:

+65 6826 6247

Secretariat

Name:

Ong Bin Lay

Address:

10 Pasir Panjang Road #10-01, Mapletree Business City, c/o SingAREN, TEPL Group, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore 117438

Email:

ongbl AT singaren.net.sg

Phone:

+65 9685 8643

Secretariat

Name:

Francis Lee

Address:

School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

Email:

ebslee AT ntu.edu.sg

Phone:

+65 6790 5371

Secretariat

Name:

Lawrence Wong

Address:

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4, Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576

Email:

wong_lawrence AT nus.edu.sg

Phone:

+65 6516 2108

NOC

Name:

Stanley Goh

Email:

ccgoh AT singaren.net.sg

NOC

Name:

Simon Green

Email:

simonpetergreenATsingaren.net.sg

NOC

Name:

Francis Lee

Email:

ebslee AT ntu.edu.sg

Gerrit Willem Bahlman was the previous Chair of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network and currently advisor to APAN. He was the Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network Cooperation Centre ( TEIN*CC) and a member of the Steering Committee.

Gerrit has served as a Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer in several different organisations and countries. He was the interim CEO of REANNZ in 2018/19, and was the Director of Information Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong for 8 years and the Chief Information Officer at Massey University in New Zealand for 20 years.

He has been the Director and Board member of the Joint Universities Computer Centre ( JUCC ) in Hong Kong and a JUCC Steering Committee Member. He is the inaugural Director of the JUCC Leadership Institute which is residential event with faculty and members from Hong Kong, China, Australia, the United States and New Zealand.