Introducing OPTO : Portal for Optical Communities in Indonesia

TL;DR

The paper introduces OPTO, an online portal for optical communities in Indonesia aimed at enhancing scientific collaboration, providing resources in Indonesian, and fostering community activities, though its popularity remains limited.

Contribution

It presents the features and goals of the OPTO portal, a dedicated online platform for Indonesian optical communities, and discusses strategies for increasing its utilization.

Findings

OPTO provides a platform for sharing optical science information.

The portal aims to foster networking among Indonesian optical communities.

Current usage of the portal is limited, indicating room for increased engagement.

Abstract

Since January 1, 2005 we have launched "OPTO" Portal, a website dedicated to optical communities in Indonesia. The address of this portal is http://www.opto.lipi.go.id and is self-supporting managed and not for commercial purposes. Our aims in launching this portal are to benefit Internet facility in increasing the communities' scientific activity; to provide an online reference in Indonesian language for optics-based science and technology subjects; as well as to pioneer the communities' online activities with real impacts and benefits for our society. We will describe in the paper the features of this portal that can be utilized by all individuals or members of optical communities to store and share information and to build networks or partnership as well. We realized that this portal is still not popular and most of our aims are still not reached. This conference should be a good place for all of us to collaborate to properly utilize this portal for the advantages to the optical communities in Indonesia and our society at large.