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ICT Virtual Organization of ASEAN Institutes and NICT

“ICT Virtual Organization of ASEAN Institutes and NICT (ASEAN IVO)” is a global alliance of ICT R&D institutes and universities in the ASEAN region and Japan. The initial idea was mentioned at the first Round Table, “International Roundtable on ICT R&D Collaboration in the ASEAN Region” held in 2013, and a proposal to establish the Organization was given and approved in the second Round Table, “ASEAN-NICT ICT Round Table 2015”.

Goals
The mission of ASEAN IVO is to seek and identify strategic ICT research areas in the ASEAN region, and promote collaborative projects in them.
 
This will provide the optimal approach to strengthen partnerships of international collaboration and cooperation throughout the ASEAN region, with the view to solving common social challenges such as communication limitations in rural areas and disaster situations, language barriers, network security, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, and more.
 
With this in mind, ASEAN IVO is to work as a platform for proposals from member organizations and activity review, thus opening a channel of communication about ongoing research and potential collaborations, and from that promoting the international alliance amongst universities and research institutes in the ASEAN region and Japan.

Members
Membership is open to institutes and universities located in the ASEAN region. Initial members were participants in the 1st and 2nd Round Table meetings, including NICT, but membership is not limited to these participants.
Activities
  1.  Dialogue on the priorities for ICT research fields, addressing the overarching needs of the
    ASEAN region.
  2. Forming international collaborative projects such as research, field trials, etc.
  3. Researcher exchange, etc.
  4. Hosting academic workshops, exhibitions, etc.
  5. Other related activities.
    To encourage and facilitate these activities, a call will periodically be made to ASEAN IVO members for proposals for any of the above, financial support to be offered by NICT.

Steering Committee
  1. A steering committee is being formed from the organizations. Each country would have one 
    or two representatives. If one is from a university, the other would be from an institute.
  2. The steering committee will consider proposals for joint or collaborative R&D projects or other
    activities within IVO, review ongoing projects, and provide feedback.
  3. The Steering Committee will carry out their activities by means of e-mail communications,
    teleconferences and face-to-face meetings.

Community
ASEAN IVO also aims to foster community between our members. We run a members-only mailing list. All members of projects funded by ASEAN IVO as well as the contact people of every member organisation are automatically added to our mailing list. The secretariat of ASEAN IVO uses this mailing list to contact all memebers about our annual forum and our calls for proposals. All members are free to use the mailing list to share information relevant to ASEAN IVO. The mailing list only accepts emails from registered members, so you do not need to worry about receiving SPAM from scammers or outside parties, as those emails will be rejected by the servers.

Feel free to use the mailing list: 

If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please contact the secretariat: asean_ivo_sc_nict@ml.nict.go.jp