ICT-Asia Seminar: Bangkok 2008

The next ICT-Asia regional seminar will take place in February 2009 in Bangkok. Further details be announced in the coming weeks.

5th Call for Proposals

Important: The publication of the results of the call is now scheduled for November 2008.

The 5th call for proposals of the ICT-Asia programme is now closed. Encouraged themes this year were:

• Grid, high performance computing
• Robotics and cognitive science
• Network infrastructure
• ICT and health
• Semantic web and new generation Internet content, interactive digital media
• ICT and environmental protection
• Context awareness and modeling

The full text of the call as well as the application form are available here.

ICT-Asia Seminar: Taipei 2007

The fifth ICT-Asia seminar took place in Taipei from 19 to 21 November 2007. This year's seminar's main themes were GRID and high performance computation, semantic web and new generation Internet digital content, network infrastructure, ICT for health and robotics and cognitive sciences

More information about the seminar is available here

Results of the 4th Call for Proposals

The 4th call for proposals of the regional programme ICT-Asia is now closed and the results have been published. 6 new projects have been selected. Information about them is available in the Projects section of this site.

ICT-Asia Seminar: Seoul 2006

The fourth ICT-Asia Seminar took place in Seoul, Korea from 9 to 11 October. The themes of the seminar and its programme are available here

Results of the third call for proposals of the ICT-Asia Programme

The third call for proposals of the ICT-Asia Programme was published on 1 December 2005. 5 new projects have been selected and are described in the Projects section of this site.

ICT-Asia Seminar: Beijing 2005

The 2005 seminar of the ICT-Asia programme took place in Beijing on 24 and 25 October 2005 , hosted by the Sino-French Laboratory in Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics (LIAMA).

Results of the second call for proposals

Six new projects have been selected as a result of this call. Their description and the list of partnering institutions is available in the Project section

Origin and background of the ICT-Asia programme

Taking into account the dynamism of the ICT sector in Asia, a regional programme for education and fundamental and applied research in ICT has been set up through the scientific network of the French cooperation in this region, along with research bodies and higher education institutions. The ICT-Asia programme was launched in November 2003 in Bangkok at the first regional seminar held at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), which was attended by more than 70 representatives from France and a dozen countries in the region

Countries involved

In partnership with France, the programme involves the ten member countries of ASEAN (Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) as well as specific Northeast Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) and South Asian countries (India, Pakistan).

Objective

The objective of the programme is to reinforce on a mutual benefit basis high level collaborations with emerging and developed Asian countries and to contribute to the integration of less advanced countries in the area into the information society.

Implementation strategy

• promote the opportunities for co-operation with France in the field of ICT and develop information and exchange mechanisms;
• select and fund integrated basic and applied research projects fostering technological innovation and technological transfer with a regional focus between France and at least two partnering Asian countries, including one country eligible to the programme “Solidarity with developing countries” (Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam);
• foster synergies with other regional and multilateral programmes in the field and in this region (EU/ASEM, ADB, AUF, …)