GDLN Asia Pacific Meetings

Building up on the discussions conducted through the Regional Meetings that were held twice annually, GDLN Asia Pacific convenes two major meetings each year - the General Meeting, attended by members and stakeholders, as well as the Business Meeting, where smaller delegations discuss specific business issues.

The GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee Meetings are also held at regular intervals to oversee the purpose, plans and policies of the association, such as establishing overall plans and policies, supervising the CEO, ensuring sufficient resources for the organization, ensuring compliance to rules and regulations and representing the organization to external stakeholders.

• General Meetings
• Business Meetings
• Governing Committee Meetings

Mongolia 2009

A general meeting, hosted by the Mongolia Development Learning Center, took place from June 29th to July 3rd. The Tokyo Development Learning Center provided basic reporting on the event. For your convenience, please see a list of stories from the TDLC and Mongolia DLC on the event:

1. Meeting Agenda
2. Event Press Release (Mongolia DLC website)
3. Sarah Cliffe, Director of Strategy and Operations: WELCOME REMARKS - GDLN AP Annual General Meeting (Mongolia DLC website)
4. Z. Enkhbold, Member of Parliament of Mongolia: REMARKS
5. June 29, 2009 - TDLC Report from general meeting 2009, Mongolia: Day 1
6. June 30, 2009 - TDLC Hub Presentation – from Ulaanbaatar and Tokyo
7. June 30, 2009 - TDLC Report from general meeting 2009, Mongolia: Day 2
8. July 1, 2009 - TDLC Report from general meeting 2009, Mongolia: Day 3
9. TDLC Report on general meeting 2009, Mongolia: Wrap

Presentation Files

• Day 1
  • Sunjidmaa Jamba - Knowledge connecting Mongolia to the world (PDF File 96Kb)
  • Prof. Chimgee - School of Economic Studies (PDF File 852Kb)
  • Dr. Bolor Naranhuu - Spreading the Knowledge of Competitiveness and Development Strategy (PDF File 32Kb)
  • Lucy King - Microfinance Training of Trainers (MFTOT) (PDF File 368Kb)
  • Eiko Wataya - Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Seminar Series (PDF File 216Kb)
  • Phil Karp and Rimta Silangit - ASEAN Health Ministers Conference on H1N1 Flu and Pre and Post ASEAN Summit Dialogues (PDF File 364 Kb)
  • Liz Ingram - The Pacific Leaders' Virtual Forum (PLVF) (PDF File 480Kb)
  • L. Lkhanaran - Mongolia Distance Learning Network (PDF File 404Kb)
• Day 2
  • Melody Wang - AFDC Economic Crisis Series (PDF File 840Kb)
  • Eiko Wataya - Asian Productivity Organization GDLN Based Distance Learning Course Series (PDF File 244Kb)
  • Hoa Nguyen (PDF File 32Kb)
  • Iffat Ahmed - ICT status of Higher Education Sector of Pakistan (PDF File 628Kb)
  • Juan Blazquez - GDLN South Asia Program of Activities (PDF File 48Kb)
  • GDLN in South Asia Region(PDF File 315Kb)
  • Nishantha Kamaladasa - Expectations from the EAP Group - South Asian View (PDF File 36Kb)
  • Nishantha Kamaladasa - DLC Sri Lanka Contribution by GDLN (PDF File 156Kb)
  • Robin King - The International Symposium for Cardiac Surgery (PDF File 132Kb)
  • Ryu Fukui - GDLN Regional Technology Platform and Service (PDF File 176 Kb)
  • Bob McDonald - Regional Website Update (PDF File 3.4Mb)
  • Iain Mitchell - GDLN Regional Technical Hub Service (PDF File 640Kb)
• Day 3
  • Ideas for Global Objectives and　Global Strategic Functions for GDLN (PDF File 160Kb)
  • Potential for closer cooperation between　GDLN South‐Asia and GDLN Asia‐Pacific　(PDF File 116Kb)
• Day 4
  • GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Programs (PDF File 152Kb)
• Day 5
  • Marcus Palenberg - Preparing Winning Proposals (PDF File 288Kb)

A general meeting was hosted by the Jakarta Development Learning Center in 2008.

The 2007 general meeting was held at the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC). Detailed reports on this meeting, including video, are on the TDLC website. GDLN Asia Pacific General Meeting 2007

GDLN Asia Pacific Business Meeting: Hanoi, Vietnam Vietnam Development Information Center

December 1-5, 2008

Click on photo for full view. (photo courtesy of Nguyen Tuan Hoa)

The GDLN Asia Pacific Business Meeting was generously and expertly hosted by the Vietnam Development and Information Center from December 1-5, 2008 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

GDLN Asia Pacific Business Meetings focus on assessing the income-generating level of activities in order to sustain member DLCs through large, regional initiatives. The meeting provided an opportunity for members to measure progress of current regional programs and propose new programs.

The World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region Vice President, Mr. Jim Adams, made a short visit to the meeting in support of the work of the GDLN in the region.

Attendees also had the unique opportunity to take part in two valuable training workshops:

• World Bank Institute: “Designing Learning Interventions That Last”
• Gavin Anderson & Company: “Enhancing GDLN Messaging”

In attendance were representatives from 15 GDLN Asia Pacific DLCs including representatives from the China Development Bank Network, the China Western Development Distance Learning Network and the Indonesia Higher Education Network (INHERENT).

Key points of the meeting:

• Business Planning: The business planning discussion generated 13 proposed new regional programs. The GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee is considering online based tools to share information and follow up on the development and implementation of current and new regional programs.
• GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee member rotation: The GDLN Asia Pacific sincerely thanked Madam Xuezhen Sun, from the China Western Development Distance Learning Network, for her kind service and contribution, and welcomed Pak Nizam, from the Indonesia Higher Education Network, as its new Governing Committee member.
• GDLN Asia Pacific Headquarters: Chulalongkorn University’s President, Professor Pirom Kamolratanakul, M.D., kindly approved the GDLN Asia Pacific headquarters to continue to be hosted by the Center of Academic Resources until December 2011, with the possibility of extending this timeframe based on a mutual assessment and review of the partnership. The GDLN Asia Pacific wishes to thank the President of the Chulalongkorn University, and Dr. Pimrumpai Premsmit, Director of the Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, for their leadership and continued support of our network.

Gavin Anderson & Company: “Enhancing GDLN Messaging”

(photo courtesy of Nguyen Tuan Hoa)

Summary: The training workshop equipped GDLN Asia Pacific members with the skills required to market to the private sector, in order to further strengthen important partnerships and encourage corporate support. GDLN Asia Pacific representatives present in Hanoi were exposed to concepts including key message delivery, question management, and important core presentation skills such as logic/structure and transitions. Emphasis was also given to managing questions in ways that lead to effective persuasion.

World Bank Institute: “Designing Learning Interventions That Last”

Role playing during the Gavin Anderson & Company: “Enhancing GDLN Messaging” training workshop. Photo courtesy of Nguyen Tuan Hoa.

Summary: Utilizing real business opportunities as cases, participants learned to how to apply a step-by-step learning design process that enables them to make good design decisions by analyzing demand, defining the appropriate business model, profiling the target audience, writing learning objectives, identifying learning methods, selecting delivery modes and tools and designing a basic evaluation plan. By integrating business logic with learning design, participants are now able to ensure the economic, pedagogical and technical quality of their programs. For more information about this workshop, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

1st GDLN Asia Pacific Business Meeting: Chongqing, China
Chongqing University of Business and Technology

November 6-8, 2007

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Decisions Taken by GDLN Asia Pacific Members

• The First GDLN Asia Pacific Business meeting was generously and expertly hosted by the Chongqing Technology and Business University with the support of the Western Region Development Office and the China Domestic Development Learning Network.
• Expert presentations were given by:

  • Professor Ron St Hill, Dean of Students, University of Southern Queensland

    International Partnerships: A Perspective from an Australian Regional University (PowerPoint presentation, 357 KB PDF)

  • Professor Idrus Andi Paturusi Rector, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia

    Major Challenges of Hasanuddin University within Global Perspective (PowerPoint presentation, 6.26 MB PDF)

  • Ms. Xuezhen Sun, WRDO, China

    China Development Distance Learning Network (PowerPoint presentation, 1004.95 KB PDF)

  • Dr. Nizam, GDLN Indonesia Project Coordinator, Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of National Education, Indonesia

    GDLN Indonesia and Inherent (PowerPoint presentation, 1.77 MB PDF)

  • Mr. Han Fraeters, Manager, GDLN and Multimedia Division WBI, World Bank

    The L in GDLN: trends and issues from a global perspective (PowerPoint presentation, 750 KB PDF)

• The main agenda item of the meeting was the GDLN Asia Pacific Business Plan. There were extensive discussions on the successes already achieved and how to build upon them, especially in servicing the World Bank as a client, the Regional Programs planned for the year ahead, the activities related to developing the association over the next few years, and overall strategy. The approved plan including the GDLN Asia Pacific regional work program is attached below.

  GDLN Asia Pacific Business Plan Jan 2008 - Dec 2011
  (version2.1, 258.89 KB).pdf

• Hamidan Bibi, on behalf of the University of the South Pacific kindly offered to host the 2nd GDLN Asia Pacific General Meeting 2008 in Suva.

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