KEYWORD:

Distance - Education, PARTNERS

PROJECT NAME:

PARTNERS Project(Distance-Education)
*PARTNERS (Pan-Pacific Regional Telecommunications Network Experiments and Research by Satellite)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Japan.

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

PARTNERS Promotion Council
MAILING ADDRESS: 1-5-16, Toranomon, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105, Japan
PHONE/FAX: +81-3-3592-1101 / +81-3-3592-1103

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

Experiment in distance-education training to verify the effect of education and exchange in remote places.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

Promoting expansion of satellite communications and international co-operation in the field of space in the Asia-Pacific region.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

To verify the effectiveness of distance-education in remote places using satellites.

TARGET GROUPS:

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

Japan: Communication Research Laboratory (CRL), MPT, National Space Development Agency (NASDA), Tohoku University, University of Electoro-communications, Tokai University, PARTNERS Promotion Council.
Thailand: King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL).
Indonesia: Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
Papua New Guinea: The Papua New Guinea University of Technology (UNITECH).
Fiji: The University of the South Pacific (USP).

USE OF INFORMATION/TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

Satellite communications system using Engineering Test Satellite V (ETS-V).
Simple and small sized earth stations for ETS-V (antenna of 1.2m).
Video conference system of fine still pictures by 64kbps digital circuits.

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

To verify the effectiveness of satellite communications systems in rural regions. To promote expansion of Distance-Education using satellites in the developing countries.

EXPECTED COST:

The cost is estimated at $20 million. (This cost is sum total budget of PARTNERS Promotion Council)

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