Report on  WMO Commission for Basic Systems - Extraordinary session 2006,
Seoul, Republic of Korea,
November 2006

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Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) - TECO WIS & CBS-Extraordinary session 2006 (CBS-Ext.06),
Seoul, Republic of Korea,
9-16 Nov, 2006

HMEI Members who represented HMEI at the meeting were:
Mr. Patrick Bénichou & Ms Christine David - Meteo France International
Mr. Michal Weis - IBL Software Engineering
Mr. Yuji Hayashi - Oriental Electronics, Inc.

 

Photos of TECO-WIS and CBS Ext.2006 -  thanks to Mr Yuji Hayashi
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At the Technical Conference on the WMO Information System (6-8 Nov 2006) that preceded the Commission Session, a half day was dedicated to presentations by manufacturers invited by WMO/CBS. The following HMEI Member manufacturers of GTS Message Switching Systems (MSS) made presentations:
IBL Software Engineering
Meteo France International (MFI)
Oriental Electrics, Inc.
 
Two non-HMEI companies also made presentations: IBM and TechnoServ.

Mr Yuji Hayashi from Oriental Electronics, Inc. reported on TECO-WIS and CBS Ext.2006 as follows:
§ The TECO-WIS conference was very successfully held in Seoul for 3 days and completed on Wednesday 8 November with very aggressive discussions among the participants from member countries worldwide.

§ The CBS Extraordinary sessions proceeded with discussions with much valuable and important information to be gained from them.

§ There was a big welcome party invited by the Ministry of the Science and Technology (MOST) of Republic of Korea and the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), which was very much appreciated.

§ Mr Hayashi  found his participation to be a rare opportunity and very valuable and was pleased to be able to participate the sessions as a member of HMEI. He thanked the HMEI Secretariat for their help with him attending the conference.

Side exhibition to the Technical Conference
HMEI Members who exhibited at this were:
Jinyang
Industrial Company
IBL Software Engineering
Meteo France International (MFI)
Several other local Korean manufacturers also exhibited at the exhibition.