GDLN Asia Pacific Meetings

GDLN Asia Pacific holds two regional meetings per year. Regional meetings offer an opportunity for members and partners to assemble and discuss innovative programs, network and technology developments, and to hold capacity development sessions.

GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee Meetings are also held at regular intervals.

General Meetings
Business Meetings
Governing Committee Meetings

General Meetings

Delhi, 2011

December 5-9, 2011

Agenda

GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Meeting Agenda

“Panel Discussion: GDLN as a partner in the South-South agenda: Experience to date and role and opportunities for the network”

Experience Sharing on South South Knowledge Exchange (Patricia R. Crombecque)

“Current GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Programs and Programs from the GDLN Global Business Meeting”

Training on Ethics in Public Health Research (Dr. Pimrumpai Premsmit)

AFDC Distance Learning Series (Scott Liu)

Update on TDLC Programs and Services (Takiko Koyama)

Water Economics and Governance: A Dialogue (Maree Tait)

CDDLN Construction and Business operation (Chen Yuehong)

“External Partners’ Session”

e-Institute for Development: Platform for Practitioner Learning (Steffen Janus)

“GDLN Asia Pacific New Programs’ Market Place”

GDLN Asia Pacific New Programs’ Market Place. The Goal: Collaboration Projects (Steffen Janus)

“Discussion with World Bank Managing Director, Mahmoud Mohieldin”

GDLN Overview (Juan Blazquez)

Microfinance Training of Trainers (Tomoyuki Naito)

Lighting a Billion Lives (Vinod Bhargava)

GDLN Asia Pacific and the World Bank (Phil Karp)

Non session specific:

GDLN Asia Pacific through the Years: Photo Slide Show

A quick look at GDLN Ning (Takiko Koyama and Kamontip Klaibanmai)

GDLN Asia Pacific Discussion List

Tanzania 2011

May 30, 2011

GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Meeting Agenda"

GDLN Asia Pacific Work Plan

Business Development Opportunities

GDLN Global Quality Initiative

Sri Lanka 2010

November 15-19, 2010

GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Meeting Agenda

A number of interesting presentations were given at the general meeting held in November 2010 in Sri Lanka. For your convenience we have gathered the materials related to the meeting, and they are available to download below:

Day 1: GDLN Videoconference: Knowledge for Development, Research Networks, and Higher Education in the 21st Century - a convergence of possibilities for GDLN

Day 1: GDLN Global Update

South Asian Perspective

Day 1: GDLN Regional Perspectives

Day 2: Sustainability of the Regional Network and the Association

Day 3: Sustainability Scenarios: Group work presentations

Day 3: GDLN Asia Pacific Opportunities: World Bank Sector Programs and Current Regional Programs

East Asia and Pacific Sector Program Implementation Status
GDLN Asia Pacific Professional Management Program
GDLN Asia Pacific Distance Learning Seminar Series Focusing on the Financial Crisis
Science and Policy of Climate Change
TDLC Regional Programs Update

Day 4: Capacity Building Program for GDLN Asia Pacific Affiliates: Effective Project Intake Conversations and Proposal Development

Day 5: GDLN Asia Pacific Opportunities: New Programs

HEC ICT Initiatives and National Video Conferencing Program
Developing a Legacy of Leadership in Vietnam and Across Asia
VC Series on Health, Education and Microfinance
- AIM - GDLN Presentation
- AIM-GDLN-NOTE-Development Learning Series-201011
New Opportunities, TDLC
GDLN Asia Pacific Distance Learning Seminar Series
The China Domestic Development Learning Network (CDDLN) and GDLN-AP

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:

GDLN Asia Pacific general meeting participants pose for a family photo at the Legal Center in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia June 29, 2009. TDLC/Terumi Hayashi

Presentation Files

Indonesia 2008

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

Japan 2007

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

Business Meetings

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.

GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee

The GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee oversees the purpose, plans and policies of the association, ensures sufficient resources for the organization, ensures compliance to rules and regulations, and represents the organization to external stakeholders.

The GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee is comprised of:

Three representatives of member Distance Learning Centers from the East Asia and Pacific Region
One representative of member Distance Learning Centers from the South Asia Region
One invitee representing the East Asia and Pacific region of The World Bank
One invitee representing a key donor or stakeholder

The current members of the GDLN Asia Pacific Governing Committee are: