Kim Dae-jung’s Cyberinfrastructure Legacy | Education About Asia, Spring 2016 | Association for Asian Studies

"...TEIN has gone through four phases (i.e., TEIN is currently known as TEIN4) since its launch as a single circuit between France and Korea in 2001. The growing support of Europe and Asia has helped TEIN become the largest research and education network in the world today.5 With over fifty million users, TEIN4 currently connects universities and research centers in twenty-three Asian countries, including China, India, Japan, and South Korea (Figure 1). It also connects the forty million European researchers and academics served by the GÉANT network and the pan-European cyberinfrastructure connecting forty-three national research and education networks (Figure 2). TEIN4 supports research collaborations between Europe and Asia in various areas such as earth observation, climate research, crop research, radio astronomy, delivery of e-health (telemedicine), and e-learning. Kim’s vision has become a reality...."