The Evolving Knowledge Campus of the 21st Century

Abstract

This presentation discusses Sun's vision of the impact of technology on
education. Sun envisage that Information Technology can be leveraged in
a seamless manner to provide a secured webservice for personalised
learning, achievement and research. Some major mega trends influencing
the way education is adopting and implementing technologies are
discussed. The presentation concludes with Sun's technologies and
initiatives to enable the deployment of the Knowledge Campus.

 

Biography

Andrew Lim
Regional Director, Education & Research
Asia South,
Sun Microsystems

Andrew Lim is the Asia South Regional Director for the Education and Research Line of Business at Sun. He oversees the development of Sun's business and strategic initiatives in the K-12, Higher Education, as well as the research segments. Sun is focused on scientific research and engineering, elearning, digital library, administrative infrastructure, and various solutioning for the education community.

Andrew's team is constantly working towards a tighter engagements with governments in the region, to enhance the adoption of information technologies in education and research collaboration. Sun has been actively partnering with academic institutions in the region to transfercompetencies into the various countries, to help enable these countries to be a net exported of IT products and services. Students in many countries now have access to all of Sun's online coursewares for free. Sun has also contributed millions of dollars of softwares to the region in the past years.

Andrew has more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry, with strong backgrounds in the system integration business. He has been with Sun for almost eight years, and has been on the current capacity for four years. Prior to this he was the sales director for the Singapore operation. Andrew was selected as the best manager at Sun for Asia Pacific, for FY2000.

Prior to Sun, Andrew spent more than 9 years with Chartered Systems & Engineering Pte Ltd (CSE), a member of the Singapore Technologies group. He was responsible for building CSE's systems integration division into a highly successful entity. One of the more visible project undertaken was the Electronic Road Pricing project, where CSE implemented the highly complex IT infrastructure.

Andrew holds a Bachelors degree (1st Class Honours) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Andrew also attended postgraduates studies at the Information Communicaton Institute of Singapore, where he graduated as the top student in Data Communication and Networking.

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