7th ICT-Asia Call for Proposals: now open!

The new call for proposals of the ICT-Asia regional program is now open. Propositions will be received until 20 September 2010. Please go to the section "call for proposals" of this website to download the presentation and application form of the call.

Results of the 6th Call for Proposals

The results of the 6th call for proposals of the regional program ICT-Asia are now published. 5 new projects have been selected. More details in the Projects section of this site.

7^th ICT-Asia regional conference in Tokyo - Japan on 15 & 16 March 2010 at Keio University

Please click on the links to read the announcement and the program of the conference and to see the group picture.

The conference was also be broadcasted in China (TU), Korea (KU), Philippines (ASTI) and Thailand (TUN & AIT) through the project CanalAVIST of IntERLab (Internet Education and Research Laboratory) of the Asian Institute of Technology, and is supported by the Regional French Cooperation at AIT. More information about CanalAVIST and our broadcast partners on www.canalavist.asia.

6^th ICT-Asia Call for Proposals

18 projects have been submitted in the framework of the 6th ICT-Asia Call for proposals.

The thematic "communication systems" has received much interest with 13 projects being presented.

Asian partners involved in this call are (order by number of projects): Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, India, Vietnam, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia and Cambodia.

The scientific committee will meet shortly (end of January) and the results should then be announced in February.

ICT-Asia Seminar: Bangkok 2009

The latest ICT-Asia regional seminar took place on 11 and 12 February 2009 in Bangkok. The themes of the seminar are:

• Distributed systems - Communication Networks/Wireless Networks
• Nanotechnologies and ICT - Quantum computing
• Multimedia applications - Speech processing - Image processing and medical imaging
• Context - Modelling - Decision support systems
• Robotics
• Computer security

Click here for further details.

5th Call for Proposals

The 5th call for proposals of the ICT-Asia programme is now closed and five projects have been selected for funding. 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

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, …)