Membership

The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) was founded on the philosophy of transforming the universities of the nations around and within the Pacific Rim into a virtual neighborhood, through applications of communications and computing technology to the facilitation of information exchange. A primary focus is the enhancement of education through the increased ability to share knowledge. The PNC is not focused on the technology of computer networking, but on the ways in which this technology can be effectively used. Efforts in the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium are focused on the formation of an organization to reach agreements on information exchange standards, mutual sharing pacts, facilitation of information exchange and the expansion of electronically readable information resources, ranging from the immediately practical (finance, medicine, etc.) to the pedagogically useful (distance learning, library exchange, etc.) to the scholarly (archival collections, art history, etc.).

• Building administration support system, organizing committees, and affiliation;

• Developing and coordinating a regional WWW server network for the Pacific Rim;

• Developing a distributed Electronic Museum of the Pacific;

• Developing a cooperative electronic library exchange program for pacific Rim University.

Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Membership Categories & Benefits

Qualified organizations and individuals are welcome to apply for membership in the PNC. Members receive a variety of benefits including information resources, reduced fees for the PNC Annual Meeting, free proceedings of Annual Meeting, and identification with other colleagues in the fields.

Institution Member:

Any scientific academy, research council, higher education institution or association of such institutions which expresses an interest in facilitating information exchange and expanding electronically readable information resources may become a Member by communicating its intention to PNC. Each Institution Member allows four candidates from the same institute to apply.

Membership fees are based on the GNP of the country where the institution located. The membership fees are categories as follows:

Honorable Corporation Member:

Any corporations or government organizations is interested in sponsoring the activities of PNC may be classified as a Honorable Corporation Member. The sponsorship fee for Honorable Corporation Member is US$ 1,000 (NT$ 35,000) or above.

Individual Member:

Membership is open to scholars, professionals, and researchers who have an academic degree and who is working at any scientific academy, research council, higher education institution. Students are not eligible for PNC Member. The annual fee for individual member is US$ 50 (NT$ 1,750). Those members from developing countries may submit an annual fee waiver to the Membership Committee at the following address:

Membership Committee

Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)

P. O. Box 1-8 Nankang

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tel: 886-2-2782-9254

Fax: 886-2-2783-6444

Services and Benefits to Members

• Discounts on conference registration
• PNC leaflets and publication available at no charge or a discount
• Fax over the Internet
  Entitle to fax over the Internet through the Computing Centre, Academia Sinica at no charge
• Opening an individual account at PNCLink.org
• Creating homepage at PNCLink.org
• Mirror sites for academic resources
  Participate in the shaping new strategies for reducing prices and promoting fair use to reference and full-text databases such as table of contents (TOC) and electronic journals that have already been created by publishers and mirrored in the Academia Sinica.
• Establishing Chinese databases
  Joint develop academic databases including TOC and abstracts of Chinese scholarly journals which are published primarily in the areas of Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

• Discounts on conference registration
• PNC leaflets and publication available at no charge or a discount
• Fax over the Internet
  Entitle to fax over the Internet through the Computing Centre, Academia Sinica at no charge
• Opening an individual account at PNCLink.org

Pacific Neighborhood Consortium 1999 Membership Dues and Fees

PNC dues and fees are based on a calendar year (January – December).

Corporation Member                                                                       US$ 1,000 (NT$ 35,000)

                                                                                                      or  above

Institution Member             GNP US$ 10,000 or above                      US$ 500 (NT$ 17,500)

                                          GNP below US$ 10,000                          US$ 250 (NT$ 8,750)

Individual Member                                                                           US$ 50 (NT$ 1,750)

How to join the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium

To join PNC right now, simply fill out the form below. The membership fee can be paid by wire transfer or by credit card to the PNC. If you have a credit card, we prefer that you use it to pay. If paying by credit card, please fax the following Credit Card Form along with the application form to the PNC. For wire transfer, please wire the membership fee to the following account (Banking handling charge to be borne by the applicant) and fax a copy of bank slip to the PNC office:

Bank: Land Bank, Nankang Branch

Account Name: The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium

Account No.: 004-001-146837

Address: No. 364, Nankang Road, Sec. 1, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

PNC Office

P.O. Box 1-8 Nankang

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tel: 886-2-2782-6432

Fax: 886-2-2783-6444