Endtoend QoS according to the users' point of view

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REPORT ONSURVEY ON THE INDUSTRIAL AND
ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF RADIATION
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE RCA MEMBER STATES

By Ms. Vu Thi Lieu
Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission
RCARO October 2008

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Introduction to Regional Co-operative Agreement

• The Regional Co-operative Agreement (RCA) is an
  intergovernmental agreement for East Asia
  Pacific region, under the auspices of the IAEA,
  in which the Government Parties undertake, in
  co-operation with each other and with the IAEA to
  promote and co- ordinate co-operative research,
• development (RD) and training projects in
  nuclear science and technology through their
  appropriate national institutions.

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Introduction to Regional Co-operative Agreement
(contd)

• RCA has shown remarkable achievements in the
  following Thematic Areas
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Health
• Radiation Protection
• Energy
• Technical Co-operation

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Introduction to Regional Co-operative Agreement
Regional Office (RCARO)

• RCA Regional Office (RCARO) has opened on March
  2002, at Nuclear Training Center Building at
  KAERI, Daejeon, Korea.
• The 31st RCA General Conference Meeting in Vienna
  in September 2002 adopted the Working Paper on
  the Establishment and Operation of the RCA
  Regional Office in Korea that stipulated details
  of operation and management of RCARO
• The Working Paper was amended by the 32nd RCA
  General Conference in Vienna in September 2003
  that incorporated the adoption of a RCA
  Resolution on the Establishment of the RCA
  Regional Office.

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Background of the assignment

• To gather the data regarding stakeholders and
  end-users on the applications of radiation
  technologies in the Member States, there are two
  past temporary staff who surveyed on the
  Agriculture and Medical applications of radiation
  technologies in the RCA Member States and
  collected as follows
• Ms. Le Thi Phu Van surveyed on the Agriculture
  applications of radiation technologies in RCA MSs
  and collected 47 end-users from BGL, CPR, IND,
  INS, JPN, ROK, MAL, MON, NZE, PAK, SRL, THA and
  VIE.
• Mr. Kabil Hossain surveyed on the Medical
  applications of radiation technologies in RCA MSs
  and collected 126 end-users from AUL, BGL, CPR,
  IND, INS, JPN, ROK, MAL, MON, MYN, NZE, PAK, PHI,
  SIN, SRL, THA and VIE

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Background of the assignment

• I was assigned to assist the RCARO in gathering
  the data regarding stakeholders and end-users on
  industrial and environmental field of RCA
  activities in RCA Member States and input the
  data into Database.
• Another temp staff, Mr. Bandara, from Srilanka
  arrived in September 2008 who is also given an
  assignment on data collection and test operation
  of the database.

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Approach to contribute to the RCARO Database

• Introduction to the RCARO plan for RCA end-user
  DB
• The RCARO has developed a strategy for
  establishing database on (1) end users of the
  RCAs projects and (2) potential target
  conferences, in which the RCA can consider
  priority in the RCAs participation, based on the
  RCARO Work Plan for 2007 and 2008.
• The RCARO conducted the survey thereby of the MSs
  with assistance from the NRs to identify and
  collect data on the end-users and international
  or regional conferences, but received only six
  responses from the MSs last year.

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Approach to contribute to the RCARO Database
(contd)

• Introduction to the RCARO plan for RCA end-user
  DB (contd)
• The RCARO has set up a plan that outlines both
  the scope and contents of a database and the
  timeline of relevant actions, in an attempt to
  construct such database with the existing and
  previously gathered data and new data to be
  collected from the MSs.
• The data gathered will be uploaded to the RCARO
  website, so a database for stakeholders/end-users
  and target conferences is expected to be
  constructed, in which the search and sorting
  functions related to RCA projects will be
  integrated.
• This database can assist the RCA in developing a
  strategy that indicates which groups should be
  targeted and what best approach might be, and the
  RCA can utilize the database for enhancing its
  awareness and promoting partnerships with target
  organizations.

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Approach to contribute to the RCARO Database
(contd)

• Contribution to the DB by collecting data
• Following my assignment by RCARO, I collected
  the data regarding stakeholders and end-users on
  Industrial and Environmental field of RCA
  projects in RCA MSs by
• Searching the data through internet
• Writing to National Project Co-coordinators on
  Industrial and Environmental field of RCA
  Projects in RCA MSs
• Collecting lists of participants who attended in
  the RCA Meeting/ Training Course on Industrial
  and Environmental field for 2007- 2008 cycle from
  my colleagues
• I collected 241 data on stakeholders and
  208 data on end-users and inputted almost
  collected data into Database also.

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Approach to contribute to the RCARO Database
(contd)

• Discussion on data
• Data regarding stakeholders and end-users is
  the data which has to show full information on
  contact points as follows
• Name of the contact
• Name of organization
• Address
• Telephone
• Fax
• Email address
• Website

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Approach to contribute to the RCARO Database
(contd)

• Discussion on data (contd)
• Data must satisfy the following requirements
• Full information
• Correct information
• If the above-mentioned data is short of the name
  of the
• contact, it will become invalid, so the name
  of the contact is the most important for the
  database.
• There are thousands of data regarding
  stakeholders
• and end-users of RCA activities in RCA MSs
  and we need to collect them as many as possible
  to enrich RCARO database.

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Implementation of Task

• Collection of Data
• Collection of data on stakeholders and
  end-users is primary challenge to develop a
  strategy for establishing database.
• Definition of RCA stakeholders and end-users
• Stakeholders of RCA are those who are involved in
  RCA business such as
• National Representatives (NRs) and NR support
  staff
• Project Lead Country Coordinators (PLCCs),
  National Projects Coordinators (NPCs)
• International Atomic Energy Agency Technical
  Cooperation (IAEA TC), Technical Officers (TOs)
• RCARO staff
• RCARO temporary staff.

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Implementation of Task (contd)

• Definition of RCA stakeholders and end-users
  (contd)
• End-users are those who are beneficiaries of the
  products or services produced by RCA activities
  now or in the future.
• Approaches to collect data on RCA stakeholders
  and end-users
• Searching RCA Website to collect stakeholders
• Searching on website of some RCA Member States
• Collecting the data on NPCs on Industrial and
  Environmental field from my colleagues.
• Collecting the data from lists of participants in
  RCA Meeting/Training Course from my colleagues

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Implementation of Task (contd)

• Contact with NPCs
• Most NPCs on environmental and industrial field
  of RCA projects in RCA Member States were asked
  to provide the data regarding end-users, and 31
  NPCs out of 92 replied.
• Though an arrangement by Dr. Lee, Mr. J-K Lee in
  IAEA provide all data on NPCs of RCA projects in
  RCA Member States.
• Collection of data from other sources
• Dr. Lee collected a lot of lists of
  participants who participated in the IAEA
  Meetings/Training Courses from 2000 up to 2008
  (from IAEA). And Mr. Bandara will continue to
  classify who are current and potential end-users.

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Implementation of Task (contd)

• Statistical compilation of collected data
• Making compilation tables show the number of
  end-user and stakeholders

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Implementation of Task (contd)

• Data input to the DB (contd)
• Conceptual design of the DB
• A database is a collection of information that is
  organized so that it can easily be accessed,
  managed, and updated.
• Searching information in the database is easier
  and more convenient than searching information on
  tables because the data can be easily sorted and
  handed.
• Issues of data input
• Lacking end-userss name while the name of
  end-users is used as search primary key of the
  database so end-users name must be unique.
• Some data is difficult to know who are end-users
  and not end-users.
• Some data is difficult to know who are current
  end-users and will be potential end-users

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Observation and Remark

• The mandate of the Regional Co-operative
  Agreement Regional Office (RCARO) is to increase
  the RCA awareness and promoting partnerships for
  RCA programme.
• In order to carry out this mandate more
  successfully, it is needed to learn the status of
  current and potential end-users.
• The collection of data on end-users of industrial
  and environmental applications of radiation
  technologies and development of a database to use
  them is a significant achievement of the RCARO to
  enhance RCA visibility. It will also be
  beneficial to RCA project participants for
  maintaining close relationships with the
  end-users
• The data and database is to assist RCA in
  developing a strategy for enhancing its awareness
  and promoting partnerships with target
  organizations by facilitating interactions with
  end-users as well as with stakeholders

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Conclusion and Recommendations

• The applications of radiation technologies are
  widely utilized in
• RCA MSs to meet the basic human needs and to
  enhance the
• capacity build-up in Thematic Areas, viz.,
  Agriculture, Health,
• Industry, Environment, Energy/Research,
  Reactors/Waste
• Management, and Radiation Protection.
• For developing industrial applications, radiation
  technologies are used in the field of
  radiography, non-destructive testing, nuclear
  radiation-related engineering and technology,
  control systems, radioactive tracers, analytical
  techniques and quality control, borehole logging
  and rock characterization, and production of
  radioactive pharmaceuticals, including necessary
  quality control techniques and procedures for
  their safe use.

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Conclusion and Recommendations (contd)

• For environmental applications, radiation
  technologies are used for diverse purposes in
  various ways. For example, the level of pollutant
  in air can be determined using radioactivity.
• To promote activities of RCA to wider target
  groups and to widen benefits to end-users and
  stakeholders, a comprehensive database may be
  useful for enhancing communications though RCARO
  website.
• To gather the data regarding end-users on RCAs
  activities in RCA MSs correctly and effectively,
  further data collection could be done by
  searching other data sources on end-users, such
  as international meetings, both IAEA and other
  professional societies. To search these data, Mr.
  Bandara is to launch his actions in that
  direction.

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Thank you for your attention !