The KAREN Services Working Group is opening their May meeting up to all KAREN members to get your input on collaboration and shared infrastructure services over KAREN.

REANNZ recently established two Working Groups bringing together representatives from academia, science and information technology from across our Membership to provide an agreed, community-owned way forward on the development of KAREN and associated services.

The establishment of a New Zealand Identity and Access Management Federation (NZFed) is a step closer after the recent endorsement of the draft strategy.

KAREN wiki highlights, recent updates and cool stuff you should know about for November 2009.

REANNZ last night released four RFPs for KAREN connectivity and services.

Registrations are now open for the annual conference for the Advanced Video Collaboration Centre, Friday 20 November. This event brings together users, technicians, and representatives in the NZ community of remote collaboration over KAREN.

If supercomputing is your thing you're invited to participate in the first BlueFern user group meeting where Colin McMurtrie will give highlights from the Supercomputing 2008 conference.

The new Advanced Video Collaboration Centre is seeking your feedback on video conferencing tools.

Prime Minister John Key and a troop of VIPs were dazzled by high definition video conferencing over KAREN last Thursday during the opening of the new national ICT Innovation Institute, NZi3.

KAREN members across the country can now access over 20 free-to-air television and radio streams in high quality from their desktop through TelstraClear’s new IPTV service trial.

TelstraClear has launched an innovative new service trial over KAREN – free-to-air TV and radio multicast streaming. This valuable IPTV service is available only to KAREN members (and only for those who have implemented multicasting).

Video conferencing is revolutionising the way people are communicating over distance. Like with any new enabling technology, there are learnings and challenges to be had along the way. This session will provide advice on how to get the best from your video conferencing experience, from room set-ups and managing technology failures to VC etiquette.

Join us this Wednesday for a rundown from Peter Helms on the eResearch and supercomputing services available at BlueFern to support your research activities.

We are excited to bring you Peter Helms from BlueFern at the University of Canterbury. Advanced computing and networking are natural companions in the global age of eResearch.

Join us tomorrow to hear Julia Charity, Scion's KAREN champion, share her strategies for increasing video conference usage among Scion's research community.

Video conferencing is an easy and effective tool for supporting research collaboration and outreach.

Video conferencing is a readily available and accessible tool for collaboration across KAREN members and internationally. There are many video conferencing and collaboration products in use across the KAREN community.

KAREN video conference trial participants are making the most of this service and simplifying real-time collaboration. Are you taking advantage of this fantastic service?