APEC Cyber Education Network (ACEN) was first initiated by Kim, Dae-jung, President of Korea in APEC Seoul Forum, March 2000. In the same year, it was endorsed as an APEC Human Resource Development (HRD) Project at the 22nd APEC HRD Working Group Meeting in Brunei Darussalam.

APEC Cyber Education Network (ACEN) is a worldwide project for narrowing down the digital divide among APEC members. ACEN connects teachers, students and researchers by encouraging and helping them to share ICT knowledge and skills in education as well as common educational issues.

ACEN serves all participants in the following aspects:
- Building APEC Educational Community
- Sharing ICT knowledge and skills in education
- Improving teachers' competency in ICT

Currently, Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) implements ACEN projects in the collaboration with Korea University Council for Social Service and with the support of Korea Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. To meet the above ACEN objectives, KERIS concentrates following activities.

- Organizing ACEN Human Network such as Teacher Reporters, Advisory Board, and Steering Committee in each APEC economy
- Publishing ACEN Web-magazine (Webzine) regularly
- Managing offline volunteer activities including Youth Internet Volunteer (YIV) and Volunteer Translator
- Providing Online Teacher Training Programs

Through these activities, ACEN will create online and offline learning community, facilitate ICT knowledge sharing and consulting activities and help schoolteachers improve their ICT skills. Eventually, ACEN is expected to a fine mechanism to narrow down the digital divide in APEC region.