The 7th annual Asia-Pacific Satellite International Conference (APSAT 2008)

Start:	Jun 12, '08 08:30a
Location:	Sangri-La Hotel, Jakarta

Theme : The Asia-Pacific Satellite Industry in the ICT Era:
Going Broadband, Multimedia and Personal Services to address Accessibility, Disaster Recovery and Capacity Development
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The satellite technology keeps advancing along with the development of the ICT technology, particularly on the ground segment and application aspects. The satellite services and applications are blending and converging of diverse needs from different requirement in which satellite services are still considered a very important necessity to support the economic, the accessibility and the human capacity development in the Asia-Pacific region. It is a wide, diverse and world most dynamic region in the economic development of the 21st century and some years to come. However it is also still lack of telecommunication accessibility, lack of human capacity development as well as it harbors many potential natural disasters.

This blended situation requires the present of the satellite services and applications to address such problems, in particular, the corporate service, the basic telecommunication infrastructure, the rural communications, the disaster anticipation and recovery as well as the satellite specific services (e.g. remote sensing, navigation etc.).

It is in this vicinity that the APSAT2008 is initiated to discuss and analyze: the opportunities & challenges of the satellite industry, the position of satellite market and functionality in the Asia-Pacific region, and the trend as well as strategy to deliver the satellite communication services for addressing various demand in the region.

The APSAT2008 will be the seventh ASSI’s annual international conference series. This conference is a remarkable event and it is acknowledged and endorsed by telecommunication societies and government institutions with the objectives :
- to enrich, encourage and support the satellite industry and community development in Asia-Pacific region and Indonesia in particular,
- to address the eminent and future issues, technology, application, regulatory and business issues focusing on the Asia-Pacific region,
- to encourage participants for future co-operation, business engaging and profit/non-profit mutual collaboration.