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Promoting and supporting the development of strategic cooperation on ICT research between Europe and Southeast Asia

OPEN CONSULTATION ON POTENTIAL COOPERATION PROJECTS OF STRATEGIC AND MUTUAL INTEREST

BETWEEN EUROPE AND SOUTHEAST ASIA ON ICT RESEARCH

COLLECTED CONTRIBUTIONS AS OF JUNE 27, 2008

ORIONIS SEACOOP PROJECT COORDINATOR

JUNE 27, 2008

SEACOOP Open consultation - Collected contributions as of June 27, 2008 Orionis - June 27, 2008 - contact: [email protected]

Introduction The present document has been prepared in the framework of the SEACOOP project, supported by the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission under the FP7 research funding programme (see http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7). The SEACOOP project addresses the development of S&T cooperation on ICT between Europe and Southeast Asia. The main project objectives are to identify, promote, and support strategic cooperation opportunities of mutual interest, and to support bilateral and multilateral dialogues. The project also aims at increasing awareness on EU-Southeast Asia S&T cooperation on ICT in Southeast Asia, at widely disseminating project perspectives and results in the European and Southeast Asian ICT communities and at developing synergies with other national and international programmes and initiatives similarly addressing EU-Southeast Asia S&T cooperation on ICT. Full details on projects partners, objectives, activities, and outputs can be found at http://www.eurosoutheastasia-ict.org. Concerning the identification of, and support to 10 to 15 key cooperation opportunities between Europe and Southeast Asia on ICT research, the SEACOOP project ambition is that these opportunities can be transformed, before the end of the project (March 2009), into flagship projects or major cooperation initiatives between the two regions. Such cooperation opportunities can be: “bilateral” (corresponding to the mutual interest of Europe and of a given Southeast Asian country) or

“multilateral” (interest of Europe and of several, if not all, Southeast Asian countries), “thematic” (focusing on a given ICT topic, or addressing a given issue) or “horizontal” (cross-thematic or

generic). They are identified by the SEACOOP partnership through two combined approaches: a “top-down” one, taking into account policies and priorities from both regions, and a “bottom-up” one, based on the suggestions from ICT organisations from both regions. On this last point, an open consultation has been launched and widely promoted in the European and Southeast Asian ICT communities, inviting organisations willing to propose potential cooperation projects to fill in a Consultation form (available online) and send it back to the SEACOOP partnership before the end of August 2008. The contributions received at the date when the present document was prepared have been gathered in the next pages (red titles indicate that the proposer has expressed the wish to sing an NDA before submitting the proposal). Identified potential projects will be presented and discussed in detail on the occasion of a SEACOOP Seminar held in Brussels in April 2008, and of the EU-Southeast Asia Cooperation Forum on ICT research organised in Brussels on October 6-7, 2008. It is expected that some of these projects will be presented to the 4th FP7 Call for proposals related to the ICT theme, to be officially announced some weeks after the event. All along the year 2008, the SEACOOP project will widely promote the identified cooperation opportunities and support European and Southeast Asian organisations interested in developing them. This support will consist in particular in the organisation of specific meetings or workshops that would reveal to be necessary to facilitate the evolution from “identified opportunities” towards “ready to be launched projects”.


Contents Page

1 PROMOTING E-LEARNING STANDARDS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN UBIQUITOUS INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS: A EURO-SEA PARTNERSHIP – (NDA) ..........................................................6 2 CAS – COMPUTER AIDED SOLUTIONS ..................................................................................................................7 3 DISASTER RESILIENT MANAGEMENT THROUGH ICT ..................................................................................8 4 EURASIA COMMON CAMPUS....................................................................................................................................9 5 IMPROVEMENT OF EU IPR SYSTEM’S KNOWLEDGE TO FOSTER SEA’S COMPANIES EXPORTS IN EUROPE (MULTIPLE PILOTS WITH CROSS-EVALUATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING)..................11 6 SCI4INVEST ....................................................................................................................................................................14 7 COGNITIVELY INTELLIGENT HUMANOID ROBOT FOR HOMECARE ...................................................18 8 PGT TECHNOLOGIES.................................................................................................................................................19 9 DISCOS .............................................................................................................................................................................20 10 OPEN SOURCE FOR SME’S .......................................................................................................................................22 11 VR-BASED MICROSURGERY ASSESSMENT & TRAINING............................................................................23 12 REHABILITATION WITH TELEMONITORING..................................................................................................24 13 BUILDING A WEB-BASED DATA BASE FOR MICROSYSTEM RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INDUSTRIES ..........................................................................................................................................................................25 14 FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF FLASH MEMORIES IN SMALL SCALE DIGITAL DEVICES ..........26 15 2ND ASIA PACIFIC - MOBILE LEARNING & EDUTAINMENT GLOBAL SUMMIT ................................27 16 COGNITIVE INFORMATICS AND STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR PERSONAL COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT IN DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS – (NDA) .....................29 17 SEA-NEM .........................................................................................................................................................................30 18 WEB 2.0, PUBLIC POLICY AND HAPPINESS (WPPH).......................................................................................31 19 SMART HOME – SMART ENVIRONMENT FOR PERSON WITH DISABILITIES AND ELDERLY......32 20 TRAINING OF STUDENTS AND COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE ROBOTS ............33 21 ADVANCED BIOMEDICAL DATA SECURITY SYSTEM FOR WEB-BASED CLINICAL INFORMATION APPLICATIONS ....................................................................................................................................34 22 COOPERATIVE COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS............................................................................................36 23 IMPROVING STATISTICAL DATA EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION ...................................................37 24 BIODIVERSITY DATA AND TAXONOMIC TOOLS ON THE WEB...............................................................38 25 TOURISM TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE ................................................................................................................39 26 REUSE AND EVOLUTION OF SYSTEM FAMILIES WITH GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES.....................40 27 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY & ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE...................................................................................................................................................................41 28 PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA WORKSHOPS FOR ICT RESEARCHERS AND JOURNALISTS ......................................................................................................................................................................43 29 DISCOVERING THE WEB’S SEMANTICS.............................................................................................................44


30 MULTISAT-RRD ............................................................................................................................................................46 31 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RENDER FARM .......................................................................................................48 32 RURAL NEXT GENERATION NETWORK (RNGN) IN INDONESIA..............................................................51 33 MOBILE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM...........................................................................................................................53 34 POSSIBILITY OF DISTANCE LEARNING IN CAMBODIA...............................................................................55 35 KMHER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ...........................................................................56 36 ASEAN-EU VIRTUALLY-IMMERSIVE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE (VIMAC) ..........................57 37 INFORMATICS FOR RURAL EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNITY HEALTH (IREACH)...................58 38 HYBRID POWER GENERATION FOR ICT EQUIPMENT USING IN REMOTE AREA ............................59 39 DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR RURAL AREA APPLICATION ........................60 40 DEVELOPMENT OF MILLIMETER-WAVE BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS FOR TROPICAL REGIONS ................................................................................................................................................................................61 41 INDONESIAN PACS INITIATIVE TO INTEGRATE INDONESIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS .............62 42 SOUTH EAST ASIA NETWORK FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING .................................................................64 43 NEO – SOUTHEAST ASIA...........................................................................................................................................67 44 NEMESIS..........................................................................................................................................................................69 45 GLOBALFUN ..................................................................................................................................................................70 46 WEB HOSTING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE.....................................................................................................73 47 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SECURITY, PRIVACY AND TRUST – (NDA) ..............................74 48 SECURITY ISSUES IN SENSOR NETWORKS AND RFID .................................................................................75 49 3D IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR DEGRADED IMAGES .................................................................76 50 SYSTEM ON CHIP DESIGN OF BASEBAND DIGITAL TV ...............................................................................77 51 INTEGRATED DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND PROCESSING FOR TSUNAMY EARLY WARNING SYSTEM...................................................................................................................................................................................78 52 BUILDING DECISION SUPPORTING SYSTEMS (DSS) USING GIS AND REMOTE SENSING ..............79 53 PERSPECTIVE FINDER FOR BETTER ISLAM-WEST UNDERSTANDING.................................................80 54 WEB-BASED CROSS-LANGUAGE ONTOLOGY SEARCH ENGINE FOR MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS AT THE THEMATIC LEVEL .............................................................................................................82 55 MULTIPLATFORM EARLY WARNING INFORMATION SYSTEM THROUGH DVB-T AND GSM .....83 56 REAL TIME NATURAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING PROJECTS .........................................................84 57 RFID SENSOR NETWORK FOR WILD LIFE PROTECTION ...........................................................................85 58 A COMPLETE UHF RFID SYSTEM ON CMOS 0.18µM - PROCESS USING TECHNOLOGY FROM SILTERRA ..............................................................................................................................................................................86 59 A VIRTUAL, PERSONALIZED, UBIQUITOUS AND CONTEXT – AWARE FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES ................................................................................................................................................87 60 A VALUE-BASED RURAL COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK FOR BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE...88 61 REMOTE TACTILE SENSING...................................................................................................................................89 62 COCONUT-CLIMBING ROBOT................................................................................................................................90


63 STUDY ON ROBOTIZATION/AUTOMATION OF RICE PRODUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINES ...........91 64 EURASIAN WORDNET................................................................................................................................................92 65 DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SPEED QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY ..............................................................93 66 EURASIAN DIGITAL HERITAGE ............................................................................................................................94 67 SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS USING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY..................................................95 68 MICROCONTROLLER-BASED HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TELEMEDICINE APPLICATION ......................................................................................................................................................................96 69 SMARTER GOVERNMENT – (NDA) ........................................................................................................................97 70 RUBBER AND PALM OIL ORCHARD MONITORING USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS.......98 71 LOW POWER EMBEDDED IMAGE SENSOR NODE ..........................................................................................99 72 BROADBAND INVESTMENT POLICY REPORT ...............................................................................................100 73 AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION FOR SEA'S WORLD HERITAGE DIGITAL ARCHIVE......101 74 COMPUTER SIMULATION OF BIOMATERIALS FOR VESICLES FORMULATIONS ..........................102 75 DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY FOR ORANG ASLI TO BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE DURING THE DEVELOPMENT REGION OF WILAYAH PEMBANGUNAN ISKANDAR (WPI).......................................................................................................................................................................................103 76 HEALTHCARE DATABASE: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, 3D BODY MEASUREMENTS, AND BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS ..............................................................................................................................104 77 AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC LIGHT CONTROL..................................................................105 78 PHOTONICS EDUCATION THROUGH A COMBINATION OF A HAND-ON APPROACH AND MEDIA ENGINEERING....................................................................................................................................................................106 79 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC INFORMATION ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION FOR TIME AND COST SAVING .................................................................................................................................................................................107

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2 CAS – COMPUTER AIDED SOLUTIONS Dr.-Ing., Dipl.-Math. Günther Roscher CEO ICS Dr. G. Roscher GmbH Am Kirchberg 6 D - 39326 Klein Ammensleben Tel.: +49 39 202/52 12-6 Fax: +49 39 202/52 12-8 St.-Nr.: 105/263/01221 HRB Magdeburg 5055 www.ICSRoscher.de [email protected]

What are the objectives of the proposed project?

The objectives of the proposed project are R&D-activities in the field of Computer Aided Solutions (CAS) as the basis for intelligent computer applications. The design of the CAS in different fields led to a new quality of methods and tools for the design of the human-computer communications. The method and technology will be a simulation of the human recognition system and realises a new quality for signal recognition. Multi-processor systems (Grid) as communicative intelligent agents as well as portable embedded systems with wireless data transmission technologies are used. One application will be the Computer Aided Patient Monitoring for diagnosis and therapy demonstrate the tele-medical services with added quality. The solution want to demonstrate the impacts and applications of the new strategy for Patient Monitoring in communicative situations.

Why is the project of strategic and mutual interest to Europe and Southeast Asia?

- co-operation between experts and users in both regions, - R&D-activities, - exchange of knowledge, - innovative solutions as examples, - dissemination & exploitation activities.

Who would be the project partners?

You can find many partners on our web: PatiMon - Patient Monitoring: www.ICSRoscher.de/PatiMon.htm CARiMan - Computer Aided Risk Management: www.ICSRoscher.de/CARiMan.htm Additional Partners especially from Southeast Asia can be invited

What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

We are open for discussion


3 DISASTER RESILIENT MANAGEMENT THROUGH ICT

Dr. Halimahtun M. Khalid Tel: +603 2282 9006 Fax: +603 2282 9004 Email: [email protected]


Existing disaster and risk management projects have focused primarily on technology development through statistical simulation of data, without adequate investigation into the real -world scenarios and requirements of different users/citizens for which these technologies have been developed. The EU-Medin database provides a rich archive of such studies.

The main objectives are

1) to understand the communication and management processes involved in disasters/emergencies f or different scenarios, from natural hazards like earthquake, tsunami, floods, to human induced hazards like nuclear accidents, and pandemics like avian flu; (2) to investigate the cognitive and cultural differences of communities in Europe and Southeast Asian overcoming disasters/emergencies, from citizens to disaster relief agencies, at the local and international levels; (3) to develop methodologies and technologies that integrate solutions for efficient and effective response that can make communities resilient.


The strategic interest involves developing systems and methodologies to build resilient communities in Europe and Southeast Asia, against a backdrop of diverse cultures, economies and politics, so that they can better support each other in times of disasters/emergencies. The Southeast Asia has been a region of interest to European business and holiday makers which expose them to disasters; yet the response processes may differ from that of Europe. Therefore, the mutual interest would be to understand how to anticipate, prepare, and manage hazardous scenarios through mutual communication, l earning and cultural exchange.


Europe: SIGMA, France (SME); CERTH, Greece (Research Organization); British Telekoms, UK (Industry), etc. Southeast Asia: Damai Sciences Sdn Bhd, Malaysi a (SME); MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia (Research Organization for MOSTI); BPPT, Indonesia (Research Organization); etc. Ideally, the partners should have different strengths and capabilities to contribute to the project, and the size of the consortium should be manageable as in STREP projects.


To explore from the European Commission if this initiative would be funded under the FP7 Call 4 framework as it i s still an important theme for both regions. There are still gaps i n exi sting research that can be addressed by the Europe-SEA cooperation.


4 EURASIA COMMON CAMPUS

e.m.a.geers ([email protected]) t.m.g.twickler ([email protected]) Delft University of Technology The Netherlands


Creation of a virtual campus environment enabling universities to share and deploy educational content and research programs for open and distance education The proposed project will have two tracks: - Services track: the creation virtual campus through the development of open source, shareware solutions addressing the core business processes of teaching and learning as well as for the management of educational programs. It includes solutions for e-learning, library information services (hybrid libraries) and administrative support. Open source and shareware solutions based will be developed and made available following the principle that education should be open to and affordable by all. Tools should also be applicable in (urban and rural) areas with data communication bandwidth restrictions through the deployment of the upcoming peer-to-peer (p2p) technology (as alternative for client-server based architectures currently in use) - Content development track: The group of participating universities will share their resources for developing quality standards and content open for all members of the group


Most universities in Southeast Asia lack cost affordable supportive instruments for the development, deployment and management of educational programs. In Europe the strong need exists to attract research capacity from Southeast Asia but individual educational and research institutes are facing difficulties in assessing the needed skills and competences of individual applicants. Another issue is the time consuming character for developing new academic contents and programs for which existing capacity in Southeast Asia is hardly utilized. The available of a virtual campus environment with common accepted tools and content and quality standards will set an optimal condition for intensified cooperation between the academic sector in Europe and Southeast Asia. It will also further boost the frontrunner position Europe does have in P2P technology.


Proposed partners in Europe: - Delft University of Technlogy (TUDelft), The Netherlands - Royal University for Technology (KTH), Sweden Proposed partners in South East Asia: - University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - University of San Carlos, Philippines - National University of Laos, Laos - Hanoi University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam



Deliver the needed financial support as well as support in the dissemination of project results and to provide all projects with a platform or network in which they can become a Community of experts, disseminating results, discussing future projects or even designing roadmaps for further action. This, to prevent the isolation of single projects which happens in other funding programs of the Commission (something like the INNOVA initiative is a good example of such a platform).


5 IMPROVEMENT OF EU IPR SYSTEM’S KNOWLEDGE TO FOSTER SEA’S

COMPANIES EXPORTS IN EUROPE (MULTIPLE PILOTS WITH CROSS-EVALUATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING)

Giorgio Da Bormida ItalGate (Thailand) Co. Ltd. +393296343373 [email protected] 919/614 Jewelry Trade Center – Silom Road - Bangrak - Bangkok 10500 – Thailand


Both the issues of, on the one hand, the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights and, on the other hand, of the cooperation in this field, are really very important in order to reach the goal of fostering trade, investment and technology exchanges between Europe and SEA, providing a firm basis for economic progress and contributing to dynamism, synergy and growth of both economies in the whole. In particular, a better awareness of IPR protection in Europe will ensure not only that products will make further inroads into the European markets, but also that such exports, and the connected intellectual property assets, will be added of considerable value. Through a more active understanding and use of tools as European patent, trade mark and design systems and copyright one businesses, exporters and innovators will be increased and will become more and more effective. In fact, the strengthening of the two-way flow may be reached by improving market access and investment conditions on both sides: the achievement of these results is strongly based on the development of a modern intellectual property rights protection system and on the expansion of internal IPR strategies, for example concerning patent and trade marks, to the European market. In this context the knowledge and the full understanding of the legal framework of IP protection, especially concerning EU legislation, in compliance with the WTO agreement on Trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), is really fundamental. EU instruments offering exclusive regional intellectual property rights, like Community trade mark (CTM), has been created to meet the needs of companies wishing to export their goods and technologies, or to provide services within Europe. So SEA companies whose export strategies lie in the European market may increasingly take advantage of the benefits and protection that such option provides. But it is necessary to know such tools and their potentialities in order to achieve the better protection, valorization and exploitation of exports’IPR in the European market. On the above-mentioned object, the Project is aimed to realize exhaustive studies and researches, inclusive of advices to the decision-makers concerning possible completions and changes to the present regulation. Besides, we will realize classroom seminars and e-seminars on such issues, with an experimentation of video-streaming lessons. In such studies and training activities there will be the participation of SEA’s and Europe’s leading experts on IPR. They not only will explain EU IPR system, including the fields of copyright and related rights, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, geographical indications, undisclosed information and lay-out designs of integrated circuits, but will also point out the best strategies and expertise too, as essential tool for SEA economic development in general and for the growth of SEA companies in particular. So the participants to the seminars, mainly constituted by business, exporters and innovators, will improve their skills about the protection and valorization of IP assets in Europe. We will adopt a collaborative and e-learning approach, and will make a large use of Information and Communication Technologies. These will be used, in fact, not only in the trainings, but also in the


dissemination and exploitation phases. For instance, we will implemented the Project Portal and interactive platform, with a forum too, where the overall material of the Project will be available. We will realize, besides a careful project management and quality assurance, also evaluation tasks, with the involvement of an external Evaluation Board, and a large range of valorization outcomes, like an international workshop and a brochure to stimulate SEA companies to attend our seminars.


The Project will provide SEA’s businesses, exporters and innovators effective skills to the achievement of the proper protection, enforcement and exploitation of their IP assets in the European markets. In fact, thanks to it, and in particular thanks to its researches and studies, and, above all, to its training activities, companies, participating to such activities, will allow the suitable awareness of EU IPR legislation and system, besides the comprehension that IP assets are essential elements for their grouth and for the development of their activities. Moreover, they will be greatly enhanced and will be able to completely met EU standards. Furthermore, the website of the Project will provide a forum for members and companies too to exchange experiences and share new ideas for successful and profitable exports. At the same time, the valorization actions, such as the promotional campaign and the exploitation and dissemination tools, including, inter alia, the brochure “Catalogue of benefits”, an international workshop, gain press coverage, participation in relevant conferences and specific forums, besides dissemination activities through the management structure of participating partners, will ensure that the vision and outputs of the Project will become as widely known and understood as possible both in SEA and in Europe. Such results will be reached thanks to the skill and expertise in IPR issues of the partners involved, that will thus uphold institutions in their efforts to support companies to become competitive in the globalized marketplace. So businesses, exporters and innovators will be able to learn from the experience of European countries how to get benefits from commercialisation of their knowledge and there will be more incentive to invent and develop new technologies. In this way, the rules and institutions of IP protection as they have developed in European market can contribute to development and reduction of poverty in SEA countries, considering its present position of developing country. The main focus of the is to inform SEA businesses, producers, exporters and innovators on how to protect IP assets in Europe, adding value to such assets through European patent, trade mark and design systems, thus promoting IP asset management among the private sector in its expansion to European market. In this market, in fact, it is central the existence of a modern, functioning and fully enforced IPR protection systems, as confirmed by the great number of EU regulations and directives in this field (i.e. Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of IPR). Through EC technical assistance on companies in IPR area (IP legal framework, administration and enforcement of IPR, IP information dissemination and IP capacity building through teaching and training), these will get a more efficient use of IP assets in the European market, adding value to such assets through European patent, trade mark and design systems and fostering exports and trade and providing easier, contextualized and ubiquitous access to IPR knowledge through the Portal to subjects characterized by limited access to resources, limited time for learning and isolated environment. The Project may also have an impact on policy level, due to its analyses and researches (including suggestions on suitable changes and completions) on the contents of IPR EU legislation.


Companies based in SEA countries, especially producers, exporters and innovators, will be directly involved in the Project, as participants to the courses, both inclass and virtual one, and stakeholders


of the website: the strengthening of their IPR strategies, especially in the Europe market, will enhance their competitiveness. Moreover, indirect effects of the Project activities will be in the whole SEA economy, ensuring that products make further inroads in above-mentioned market. In fact, one of the main project focuses is to inform businesses and innovators on how to protect IP assets in Europe adding value to such assets through European patent, trade mark and design systems, thus promoting IP asset management among the private sector in its expansion to European market, which considers central the existence of a modern, functioning and fully enforced IPR protection systems, as confirmed by the great number of EU regulations and directives in this field (i.e. Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of IPR). To raise awareness of European approach is not only an excellent opportunity to each company, but it may be one more step towards the development of economy in the whole, stimulating not only trade and investment sectors, but also creativity and innovation, with significant reduction of poverty and of the number of persons without an employment.

We envisage a multiple pilots in different countries: 1) Thailand 2) India 3) Bangladesh 4) Vietnam 5) Singapore


Support in identification of most appropriate funding scheme Support in partners selection Help in creating more pilots (one per country) Support in project preparation


6 SCI4INVEST STRENGTHENING EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SMES’ SKILLS AND GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE ENHANCEMENT OF SCIENCE PARKS’ ROLE IN THE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Giorgio Da Bormida ItalGate (Thailand) Co. Ltd. +393296343373 [email protected] 919/614 Jewelry Trade Center – Silom Road - Bangrak - Bangkok 10500 – Thailand


The overall objectives of Sci4Invest consist in helping the Asiatic Target Countries SMEs to set a path of growth and international markets access, helping through this action to augment wealth, economic development and employment. The focus is facilitating direct business cooperation between the Asian and European industries through an improved access and expansion in the European marketplaces of the Asiatic target SMEs and through an enhanced European direct investment involving the same SMEs. The specific objective of the Sci4Invest project is is strengthening Asian SMEs’ skills and growth throughout the enhancement of Science Parks’ role in the knowledge transfer (especially by means of focused training activities) and in the stimulation of economic growth, local development and employment, and by means of the improvement of the institutional capacity, networking and integration into the information society. The main focus of Sci4Invest is strengthening Asian SMEs’ skills and growth throughout the enhancement of Science Parks’ role in the knowledge transfer (especially by means of focused training activities) and in the stimulation of economic growth, local development and employment, and by means of the improvement of the institutional capacity, networking and integration into the information society. Sci4Invest actions will be mostly developed in Asian countries. “A new phase, new stimulating opportunities for business capacity building and integration”. This can be seen as the leitmotiv of the Sci4invest project, that will be developed at an Asian and LDC’s wide level, in order to guarantee a positive socioeconomic impact and enhance a dynamic system of EU-ASIA business innovation. It will be fostered the improvement and development of Science Parks concerned (but also of other ones, in the future), strengthening their functions in transferring knowledge to their companies and in stimulating socio-economic growth. In fact, on the one hand, they will transfer to such companies, and in particular to the ones participating to training activities, the necessary knowledge in relevant subjects (including a standard of best practices in the match-up of market, offering and finance for specific projects) and so will upgrade the competencies of Science Park companies in international business, marketing and joint development. On the other hand, this business intermediaries will directly increase the capacity of such enterprises to gain foreign investments, joint ventures, new market channels and to join technological development projects, besides facilitating direct business cooperation between Europe and Asia. This challenge will be taken on with the overall support of Science Parks, as means for knowledge transfer, for gaining more foreign investment, promoting joint ventures, opening new market channels and increasing joint technological development projects, throughout ad hoc initiatives and activities, that are going to be developed in the appropriate chapter of this document (e.g. training sessions, fora, development of an e-intermediary site for high-tech companies, matchmaking meetings, etc.). More in general Sci4Invest will foster target countries' integration in the world economy and will allow them too to benefit of positive effects of globalisation and liberalisation. Target groups will be constituted by participating Science Parks companies, while final beneficiaries will be, besides these enterprises’ employees, similar companies (and their personnel) both of each


Science Park concerned and located in other ones of the whole regions/countries in which Sci4Invest action will be implemented (at least 500 companies for each target country). In this way, indirect positive effects will be perceived by the whole private sector of such areas. Moreover, Project’s results may, on a long term perspective, be considered as an example and repeated by Science Parks located in different countries. Sci4Invest activities will allow the transfer to the training courses’ participants of the necessary knowledge in relevant subjects (including a standard of best practices in the match-up of market, offering and finance for specific projects) and the upgrade of Science Park companies’ competences and skills in international business, marketing and joint development. In this way, the action will contribute to facilitate direct business cooperation between Europe and Asia and to increase the capacity of University Science Park Companies to gain foreign investments, joint ventures, new market channels and to join technological development projects. To address these aims Sci4invest project will develop a series of capacity building activities, representing the main area of the implementing action, which, in fact, will focus on training and upgrading skills both of Asian Smes’ and of Asian Intermediaries in essential areas, better identified in the full application form. The last will be directly represented by the Science Parks concerned, while the first by participating Science Parks’ enterprises. Moreover, Sci4Invest may involve, particularly in the training activities, Asian Public Authorities, so that to provide them with the knowledge and competences upon suitable system of governance, able to improve the economic environment (including regulations), transforming it in an instrument both fostering EU direct investment in the target countries and enhancing trade, access and expansion of Asian SMEs in the EU marketplace. This primary area of Sci4Invest initiative will be supported, with a subsidiary function, by tasks and activities addressing the goal of facilitating direct contacts and long-term relationships between European and Asian SMEs, in some of the areas of the training activities, identified and perceived as a priority sector for the target groups. Such tasks concern, for instance, both the delivery of the business meeting events and the creation, in the Project website, of “e-intermediary” service, as well as the development of IPR Repository for technologies search, match and transfer. Other significant Sci4Invest activities are: Sci4Invest webportal and Interactive Learning, Sci4Invest Fora The overall results of Sci4Invest will be the enhancement of the participating Asian Science Parks’ role and function, especially in transferring knowledge to their SMEs and in facilitating direct business cooperation between them and European industry, and the consequent improvement of such SME's skills and capabilities, which will enhance both their access and expansion in European marketplace and European direct investment involving the same companies.


The Science Parks already existing in Asia and LDCs countries (e.g. the Agri-biotech Park, Andra-Pradesh, TongJi Science Park in China etc.) are considered fruitful mechanism for stimulating economic growth, local development and employment. At the same time, especially in target countries and regions, there is the risk of limiting the role and activities of Science Park only on its own home market and this could represent a fatal error leading to many missed opportunities, and causing also less market penetration, over dependence on public support ,unfruitful cooperation with EU venture capital companies working in Asia and LDCs markets, and growing difficulties in the communication between technology companies in those regions. In target countries and regions there are difficulties in developing business skills for operating out with the home market. Actually, Asian companies need to develop skills to operate in EU market places and to attract EU venture capital companies in investing into Asian markets. There are also communication difficulties in developing joint ventures between technology companies of both regions. This project aims at overcoming those limits, found out in examining the experiences realised in the past 10 years. The basis for a Science Park’s success are, in fact, the knowledge transfer to its member companies and the development of effective and efficient networks, leading to exchange of information, proactive cooperation between incubators, start-up companies and investors: it is necessary that Networks are developed for the good functioning of incubator companies and the survival of emerging companies.


Sci4Invest action will directly move in such direction, as regards participating Science Parks, thus implementing a model which other Asian Science Parks may repeat. Within this project, it is foreseen a cooperative work with Science Parks in the EU, India (LDRs), Bangladesh (LDC) and Thailand. Key elements of Sci4Invest, contributing to distinguish the same from other initiatives, are both the focusing on Science Parks’ role (aiming at improving and strengthening the same) and the collaboration with European similar business intermediaries, which will previously implement and upgrade the skills of the first in international business, marketing and development, through an preliminary knowledge transfer to them, by means of training activities and of mutual visits too. In this way, it will be fostered the improvement and development of Science Parks concerned (but also of other ones, in the future), strengthening their functions in transferring knowledge in international business, marketing and joint development to their companies and in stimulating socio-economic growth: these business intermediaries will transfer to such companies, and in particular to the ones participating to training activities, the necessary knowledge in relevant subjects and will directly increase the capacity of SPs’ enterprises to gain foreign investments, joint ventures, new market channels and to join technological development projects, besides facilitating direct business cooperation between Europe and Asia. Sci4Invest results include: set the standard of 'best practice' of training (and match-making too) activities for the Asian and EU SP’ Companies in order to dismantle technical barriers to trade; create a technological eIntermediary; upgrade the competences of Asian companies in Science Parks to provide services to meet the needs of growing technological enterprises; enhance the capacity of networking and the competence to support international operations of the Asian Science Park Management and Companies; raise awareness of Europe in Asia (and vice versa); strengthen mutual investment flows between the two regions; increase capacity for long-term strategic alliances between business organizations in the EU and Asia, including public private partnerships; help Asian Science Parks to develop new strategies for their member companies by transferring the know how of the EU Science Parks. The project will be a means for the selected target groups for setting up a standard of best practice in capacity building activities between the Asian/LDC and EU Science Park companies, in order to reduce the barriers to trade and share/upgrade the competencies of Asia/LDC companies in the technological area. Moreover, the project will help Asian Science Parks developing new strategies for their member companies by transferring the know-how of the EU Science Parks; this will permit also the strengthening of strategic long term relationships, enhancing the technology transfer and also the investment flows between the two regions. And so the Project will contribute both to achieve poverty reduction targets (with the consequent social development) and to integrate the involved Asian countries with the globalised world economy, above all exposing local entrepreneurs to the challenges of accessing the EU market, by creating a favourable environment for economic growth (especially private sector development). Moreover, the e-Intermediary service, the IPR Repository, the thematic Fora and the whole services of Sci4Invest Portal and Interactive Platform, may contribute to the uptake of ICT inside the target countries. The target groups will be Science Park SMEs, at least 10 companies for each of the selected countries (however, it is reasonably foreseeable a more consistent one, at least of 15 companies for each Science Park). The final beneficiaries will be, besides the employees of the target companies, the similar enterprises (and their personnel) of each Science Park and of the whole regions (and of other regions/countries too) in which Sci4Invest action will be implemented (at least 500 companies for each target country).


Target groups will be participating Asian Science Parks’ SMEs: it is expected a minimal participation of 10 companies for each of the selected countries (however, it is reasonably foreseeable at least of 15 companies for each Science Park).

The final beneficiaries will be, besides the employees of the target companies, the similar enterprises (and their personnel) of each Science Park concerned and in other ones of the whole regions/countries in which Sci4Invest action will be implemented (at least 500 companies for each target country). In this way, indirect positive effects will be perceived by the whole private sector of


such areas. Moreover, Project’s results may be considered as an example and replaced by Science Parks located in different countries.

We envisage a multiple partners and this is just an initial selection of interested parties: • Thailand Science Park (NSTDA), Thailand (TSP) • Software Park Thailand (NSTDA), Thailand (SPT) • Indira Gandhi Integral Education Centre, India (IGIEC) • Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh (BUET) • SDNP Bangladesh (UNDP), Bangladesh (SDNP) • Centrul Afaceri Transilvania (Parks of Cluj-Napoca and Dej), Romania (CAT) • ORT France, France (ORT) • Lattanzio EuroPublic, Italy (LEP)


Support in identification of most appropriate funding scheme Support in partners selection Help in creating more pilots (one per country) Support in project preparation


7 COGNITIVELY INTELLIGENT HUMANOID ROBOT FOR HOMECARE

Dr. Xie Ming Nanyang Technological University [email protected]


The objective of this research aims at developing self-intelligent and cognitively capable humanoid robots which could be deployed not only in factories but also in home environment for various cares such as elderly care, childcare and homecare, etc.


The project strategy is to push forward the new theory of Artificial Intelligence, which focuses on the so-called self-intelligence advocated by Dr. Xie Ming, instead of the traditional paradigm of computer-aided human intelligence. It is worth noting that this type of research will lead to the discovery of the last frontier in science, that is: the brain science. Also, as said by Bill Gates of Microsoft, the commercial impact of the outcome in this field will worth 10 Microsoft. And, many people believe that the scientific impact in this field will worth many Einstein.


University of Paris 6 (Philippe Bidaud); Italian Institute of Technology (Jean-Guy Fontaine and Giulio Sandini); University of Karlsruhe (Rudiger Dillmann); Institute of Automation Spain (Manuel Armada); University of Glasgow (Frank Pollick); University of Lund (Christian Balkenius).


We understand that the Framework 7 in Europe do provide funding support for collaborative projects between Europe and Asian countries. SEACOOP should support these collaborative projects with the full-scale funding under the Framework 7.


8 PGT TECHNOLOGIES

TOKO Paul Géraldin P.O Box: 16576 Yaoundé Phone: +237.74.35.21.17 75.41.91.46 Email:[email protected]


The objectives of the proposed project are among others to introduce ICT in disadvantaged populations, liberalised access, increase training


Because Europe has many more resources and experience in this area and it's important to help others to move forward if we do not will reduce the digital divide


Private enterprises and organizations like the European Union, governments and non-governmental organizations interested in ICT


Any funding target firms or cooperation between them the companies on the one hand, and businesses and other governments


9 DISCOS

Dr. Toni Anwar Coordinator Software Systems Engineering (SSE) The Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS) c/o King Mongkut University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) 1518 Pibulsongkram rd., Bang Sue, 10800 Bangkok Thailand web : www.tggs.rwth-aachen.de <http://www.tggs.rwth-aachen.de> email : [email protected], [email protected] Mobile : +66-849400891


1. To synergise researches between different ICT techno-community systems 2. To formulate programs for technology-dependent experimental economic models 3. To formulate algorithms and software models of location determination technique that has sufficient precision and accuracy performance, develop hardware platform based on IEEE 802.15.4 (wireless sensor network), RFID and other Wireless Communication Systems, demonstrate, study and analyse the performance in the area of QoS, security, data privacy, protection from other parties’ and robustness when there are failure nodes in the sensor network. 4. To design a complete integrated data-rich monitoring ICT system consisting of data acquisition and storage systems, communication systems and Central Fixed/Wireless Data Mining (WDM) server system for different techno-social systems 5. To facilitate the ICT system for different social communities (hospital, campus, bank, building and transport system) to analyse and verify theories related to signal quality, system timing during signal transfer, collision probability of the wireless systems to existing RF systems, taking into account the impact of the technologies on humans thus providing input for a sustainable development program initiatives


In this research, a data sensor system platform is designed with help of an RFID and fixed- & wireless LAN interconnection. The signal quality and system timing during signal transfer process for both wireless LAN and RFID connections will be ensured using the standard RF measurement for RFID [8] and the detected collision and its probability will be analyzed. The new system aims for a less expensive system than existing system. The models for fixed- and mobile localization systems will have different purposes, for building automation as well as for mobile communications. In building automation, localization will serve the objectives of tracking different objects and human beings, in houses, campus, hospitals or security systems. The mobile communication models will be based on a micro-controlled vehicle system. The localization systems combined with different technologies like active RFID and wireless communication systems are required to build complex intra-vehicle-communication system as well as statistical modelling of collision probability and signal propagations) using the components information of the models will be studied and compared with simulation data results followed up by demonstration of the systems, applied to different conditions and situations (economic models). The effect of the new technology used in this project will be studied and compared to the existing technology, human safety and security. The results gained from the simulation data will be compared


again with the community model (hospital, bank etc.). This will support the prediction and predictability of such systems used in the different areas, such as hospitals or apartment buildings and in case of the mobility, the intra vehicle communications. What kind of impacts this will have on the economic, environmental and social issues (sustainability) will have to be studied in different communities for the growth of these communities on different scales, depending on the technological effects.


1 (Coordinator) The Sirindhorn International Thai German Graduate School of Engineering TGGS Thailand 2 Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen RWTH Germany 3 Universiti Sains Malaysia USM Malaysia 4 F & K Consultant F & K Greece 5 National Electronic and Computer Technology Center NECTEC Thailand 6 SmartCare SCR Italy 7 STT Telkom Indonesia STTT Indonesia 8 Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz WSHE Poland 9 Telkom Research and Development Sdn. Bhd. TMRND Malaysia 10 Agilent Technologies Agilent Malaysia 11 Ponsec Ponsec Malaysia 12 SCMMicro Systems, GmbH SCM Germany


SEACOOP could support with finding the right call for this project in regards to the objectives and plans of this project.


10 OPEN SOURCE FOR SME’S

[email protected] +90 506 339 57 49


1-To bring the young researchers from Europe, entrepreneurs from South Asia and small and medium sized enterprises from South Asia at a portal 2-According to the SME’s software requirements, young entrepreneurs from Southeast Asia will be educated by the high qualified open source experts from all over Europe and they’ll develop and customize the current open source programs for the SME’s and so there will be economical development process starting point for both SME’s and the young entrepreneurs who would like to work in the field of ICT.


Because the results can be used all over the Europe and Southeast Asia. The important point here the main result is at first for the beneficiary Southeast and then this programs can publish at the same portal for all over European SME’s.


IBM, SUN etc companies which are supporting the Open Source World Bank Info DEV Program is also supporting Open Source Open Source Communities Trade and Industry Chambers and Organizations


SEACOOP must allocate a small amount of budget to employ one full time employee and two consultants one is very much qualified in the field of software development and the other is fully qualified in the field of business development and consulting services for SME’s requirements.


11 VR-BASED MICROSURGERY ASSESSMENT & TRAINING

Dr. Etienne Burdet ([email protected]) Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ London


Limitation on human accuracy, due in particular to physiological tremor, has long been a concern in microsurgery, which is required in eye, hand and neuro-surgery. This makes it necessary to train apprentice surgeons and assess their performances. This project will investigate the causes of non-voluntary deviations hindering the quality of interventions, and develop a virtual reality based training system for training microsurgeons to perform manipulation tasks under a microscope.


The reasons which have lead us to this collaborative are the complementary expertise necessary by this project: • Singapore (and South-east Asia in general) has significant expertise in microsurgery and a reservoir of top centres in hand and reconstructive microsurgery, eye- and neuro-surgery, with corresponding needs and testing possibilities. • UK (or Europe) has significant expertise in the design of medicine virtual reality based training and assessment systems.


Dr. Etienne BURDET, Imperial College London Dr. TEO Chee Leong, National University of Singapore Dr. ANG Wei Tech, Nanyang Technological University


• The project would be greatly facilitated by funding for short and medium-term exchanges of academics and student. • Platforms for collaborative bi-national projects funding would greatly simplify applications relative to the present state where separate applications are required at both sides, with added administrative work and potential IP problems. • One frequent problem of such collaborative projects is that national funding agencies typically require students/staff be hired from the same country, which hinders recruitment of most suitable individuals. Solutions to waive such conditions should be seeked.


12 REHABILITATION WITH TELEMONITORING

Dr. Etienne Burdet ([email protected]) Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ London


Stroke affects roughly 0.2% of the population, in particular the aged, which is growing worldwide, especially in developed countries. Optimal treatment would require more one-on-one treatment with physiotherapists than national health system can currently cover. The goal of the project is to develop safe, low-cost robotic neuro-rehabilitation devices which can be used home at rehabilitation centres, enabling a decentralized rehabilitation with remote monitoring from physiotherapists. This requires human-oriented design adapted to the patients, as well as extensive clinical testing with post-stroke patients.


The reasons which have lead us to this collaborative project include: • UK (or Europe) and Singapore have complementary expertise necessary for this project, e.g. human motor control and motor learning in UK, and robotics in Singapore, which are necessary for the success of this project. • The development of efficient rehabilitation devices adapted to the patients and health system require simultaneous testing in several countries with different characteristics.


Dr. Etienne BURDET, Imperial College London Dr. Diane Playford, University College London Dr. TEO Chee Leong, National University of Singapore Dr. Karen Chua, Tan Tong Seng Hospital, Singapore


• The project would be greatly facilitated by funding for short and medium-term exchanges of academics and student. • Platforms for collaborative bi-national projects funding would greatly simplify applications relative to the present state where separate applications are required at both sides, with added administrative work and potential IP problems.


13 BUILDING A WEB-BASED DATA BASE FOR MICROSYSTEM RESEARCH

ACTIVITIES AND INDUSTRIES Bernard COURTOIS Circuits Multi-Projects (CMP) 46 avenue Félix Viallet F 38031 Grenoble cedex – France [email protected]


1- BUILDING AN ENCYCLOPEDIA LIKE TOOL 2- GIVING AN INSTANT ACCESS TO RESEARCHERS AND INDUSTRIES ON THE SUBJECT OF MICROSYSTEMS 3- PART OF IT WILL BE DEDICATED TO SCHOOLS STUDENTS TO EDUCATE THEM ABOUT THIS NEW FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY


MICROSYSTEM IS BECOMING A STRATEGIC INDUSTRY IN BOTH EUROPE AND SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE NEED TO EASY ACCESS INFORMATION ON THIS HUGE EXPANDING SUBJECT IS BECOMING A NECESSITY


Dr WALEED FEKRY FARIS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA GOMBAK, KUALA LIMPUR, MALAYSIA [email protected]


1- Funding the manpower 2- Facilitate the mobility of researchers


14 FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF FLASH MEMORIES IN SMALL SCALE DIGITAL

DEVICES

DAVID BILLARD, PHD, PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND [email protected] +41 22 388 1885 OR +41 79 746 7305 (MOBILE)


This project is intended to provide forensically sound tools, procedures and best practices for the investigation of Small Scale Digital Devices, in particular flash memories in cellular phones, PDA, imaging systems.


Southeast Asia (in particular Taiwan) is a key player in the design and manufacturing of flash memories and small scale digital devices like cellular phones. Europe has a considerable know how in the forensic field since many years: the first forensic labs were created in Lyon (France) and Lausanne (Switzerland) at the beginning of the 20th century. We feel it appropriate to reunite Europe and Southeast Asia around a common project aiming at defining tools, procedures and best practices for the investigation of small scale digital devices.


Primarily a producer of flash memory (NAND) in Southeast Asia and the University of Applied Sciences in Geneva. Other partners may be identified in the first part of the project.


Primarily find one (or more) project partners in SEA, setup an awareness event (workshop for instance), with flash memory producers, forensic officers and representative of law enforcement in SEA and Europe countries. Ideally, the event should lead to the creation of a community of researchers, government bodies (law enforcement) and industrial partners. SEACOOP should further help this community by the writing of a EU proposal in order to make the work done.


15 2ND ASIA PACIFIC - MOBILE LEARNING & EDUTAINMENT GLOBAL SUMMIT 4-6 NOVEMBER 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

Rani Wemel Mobile: +60192070510 Email : [email protected]


LTT Global Communications has been pioneering mobile learning for the past 3 ½ years. The Mobile Learning wave has begun and is being adopted at different levels globally. LTT Global in line with creating awareness on Mobile Learning in the region organised the 1st Asia Pacific Regional Mobile Learning Conference, on August 7, 2007 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The theme for the conference was Education Beyond the Classroom Mobile Learning the Future is Here ! The theme was in line with :1. Bridging the digital divide, 2. Human Capital Development and promoting Life Long Learning, 3. Encourage content development for the world market. The conference was an overwhelming success as we had participants from 13 countries join us in the inaugural conference. We received favorable feedback and they all looked forward to our next conference in 2008. This year we are looking at hosting 1000 delegates this year. The conference is organised not only to create awareness in the region but to lead and support all countries in the Asia Pacific region in the efforts to develop and promote mobile learning infrastructure, applications, devices and content. LTT Global had also set up an Advisory Panel in conjunction with the conference and has as its strategic objectives in the next 3 year period : 1. to take advantage of technology to influence strategic direction and development of national education policy to improve educational and training outcomes. 2. to increase the number of educational organizations, corporate and the government sector making strategic and effective use of mobile technology in human capital development and to bridge the digital divide. 3. To develop a national digital infrastructure and resources strategy leading to greater national coherence, improved reliability and affordability that is sustainable in the longer term. 4. To inform and influence educational decisions by developing and disseminating evidence of the progress and impact of technology in education, technology innovation and effective practice. 5. To encourage research and development to generate high quality learning and edutainment content for the global market 6. To implement standards, and guidance to support systemic change through ICT that transforms learning and teaching for all.


LTT Global aims to attract representatives from the Public Sector, Academia, IT and Telecom Companies from Europe and South East Asia to establish a forum and networking platform for discussion and dissemination on all aspects of Mobile Learning, including research, policy, technology, content, application, devices, implementation issues and impact on the government organizations and the society as a whole. We would like to reach a wider group of major European companies to support and encourage our initiatives at the same time use this platform to promote their content/service/application or device to delegates and visitors. This will create an opportunity for further work with the European institutions and member states and the Asian region.



The project partners for this year confirmed to date are : MSC Malaysia (Multimedia Development Corporation, Malaysia - MDeC), Institute of Professional Development Open University Malaysia (IPDOUM) and the APACMLEAP-Mobile Special Interest Group. Supporting government Ministries include : Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia (MOSTI), Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications (KTAK), Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Supporting NGOs’ from the ICT sector include: Technoprenuer Association of Malaysia (TEAM), TIE Malaysia Chapter (TiE), Mobile Monday Malaysia Chapter (MOMO), Malaysian Indian Technology Innovation (MiTiB), MCA ICT Resource Centre (MiRC)


We would appreciate SEACOOP support on an annual basis as a collaboration partner. We need funding and we are looking for sponsors and exhibitors to help make this year even a more exciting event than last year. We would like to invite speakers from the European institutions to share the success stories and the challenges faced in the introduction phase of mobile learning. We will be having Award Night recognising contributors in this industry sector in the Asian region and SEACOOP can be part of this initiative as well.


17 SEA-NEM

Pierre-Yves DANET NEM Vice chair in charge of strategy +33296051155 [email protected]


• Addressed research topic : Networked media. The objective is to develop Interoperable multimedia network and service infrastructures, to design end to end system and application that enable i) intuitive, intelligent, professional and non-professional creation, manipulation, storage/handling/search, management and rendering of media; ii) new creative forms of interactive, immersive and very high quality media (such as 3D, virtual and augmented reality) as well as new forms of experiences for individual users or user communities • Expected research output(s): o World leadership in a new generation of media technologies providing significantly higher performances in terms of intelligence, scalability, flexibility, speed, capacity, ease of use and cost. O New and sustainable market opportunities based on converged business models between content, telecom, broadcast and consumer electronics industries. Reinforced European position vis-à-vis global interoperability and standardisation initiatives. O Widespread adoption of new digital media consumption and production patterns. Enhanced quality of life through new usage forms contributing to social, intellectual and leisure well-being. New opportunities for content production and exploitation • Targeted country in the SEA region: Vietnam, Cambodia ??, Laos ??


It is strategic for the NEM European Technology platform to share its vision and the research priorities with other world wide regions in order to help European Industry to take into account the specific needs of these countries. NEM has a big challenge for that in 2008 and we need to establish these common work session in order to achieve this objective and to get a clear idea of the research topic priority that we need to set up in our next version of the Strategic Research Agenda.


NEM project members from European side, industries, Universities, Research organisations SMEs from the networked media domain.


OF COURSE, SEACOOP could help us identifying the key partners in that area et potentially the organisation of common workshops in order to understand these priorities.


18 WEB 2.0, PUBLIC POLICY AND HAPPINESS (WPPH)

Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand [email protected]


1. To promote well being and happiness in communities through appropriate uses of the internet technologies, especially social networking expressed in Web 2.0 2. To study the presuppositions and the ideas behind social networking technologies in order to find out how they are appropriate or inappropriate to special cultural locations 3. To propose a set of policy recommendations on appropriate use of technology that actually promote well being and happiness.


The 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness (GNH) organized a panel on “Information Technology and Happiness,” in which a number of scholars discussed how the ubiquitous information technology could be harnessed to engender the kind of happiness that is proposed during the conference. Happiness centred public policy, in terms of GNH, includes: socio-economic development, good governance, environmental conservation and cultural promotion. These are shared concerns in South-East Asia and Europe. New Web 2.0 technology designs serving this public policy agenda would thus be of mutual interest to both Southeast Asia and Europe.


(1) Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University; (2) Garden of Fruition Co., Ltd., publishers and social entrepreneurs, Bangkok, Thailand; (3) Joy Company, value driven marketing and communications, the Netherlands; Board of Directors, Social Venture Network Europe.


The SEACOOP, being an initiative that promotes science and technology cooperation between Europe and Southeast Asia, is uniquely situated to support the project. It could support the project financially and it could be a link or a forum between researchers, social entrepreneurs and technology designers in both regions.


19 SMART HOME – SMART ENVIRONMENT FOR PERSON WITH DISABILITIES AND

ELDERLY

Prakasit Kayasith (Project Leader) ASTEC National Electronics and Computer Technology Center The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand Tel: +662 5646900 ext 2467, e-mail: [email protected]


Supports e-inclusive society and independent living for person with disabilities and elderly focusing on development of an intelligent context-awareness monitoring system


Demographic profiles around the world infer an increase of aged population, especially in European and some development counties in Asian regions. The situation is the same in Thailand. Modern lifestyle and economic problems cause working generation to work harder leaving aged people to stay mostly by themselves.

With new technologies providing helps and monitoring system, the project will have strong impacts in multilevel-perspective such as (1) improve quality of life for the disabled and the elderly to be more autonomous and active, (2) reassure for security and safety of family members while they are alone, and (3) reduce the medical care cost per person for a long period case/community based services. By working together, information and technologies can be shared to benefit people from both Europe and Southeast Asia.


We are looking for a possibility to have a join project with the University of Sheffield, UK and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. And we are in searching for others.


Help in searching for potential partners from EU side. Help organizing a meeting among the groups of same interested.


20 TRAINING OF STUDENTS AND COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE

ROBOTS

[email protected] Prof. Dr. J.-D. Dessimoz, MBA, HESSO.HEIG-VD “Western Switzerland University of Applied Sciences” CH-1’401 Yverdon-les-Bains Switzerland, +41 79 656 1691


Facilitate exchanges for education and cooperative research. Why is the project of strategic and mutual interest to Europe and Southeast Asia?

Synergies are possible in a common, larger structure. Main interest for Europe: access to well-trained young people; local social and legal conditions similar to international standards, at relatively low cost . Main interest for Asia: contribution to the education of young generation, with easier access to European culture and education/research infrastructures


It seems that we could easily start with ABAC University, Bangkok, with whom we already have exchanges. This cooperation might possibly be increased to reach other Thai universities.


The SEACOOP project could give support grants for more exchanges and possibly also facilitate exchange of expertise in EU-SEA cooperation.


21 ADVANCED BIOMEDICAL DATA SECURITY SYSTEM FOR WEB-BASED

CLINICAL INFORMATION APPLICATIONS

Assoc.Prof. Guan Yong Liang Nanyang Technological University School of EEE 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee5/cv/eylguan.htm Asst.Prof. Poh Chueh Loo Nanyang Technological University School of Chemical and BioMedical Engineering 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/scbe/bioe/FacultyPP/Profile_CLPoh.htm


ICT is gaining importance in healthcare. There is an increasing need to transfer data across multiple locations (e.g. hospitals, laboratories etc) through open networks (e.g. internet) in web-based applications such as telemedicine, teleradiology etc, to better utilise resources. Hence the security protection of confidential patient data over the public network becomes an important issue. The main objective of the proposed project is to develop an advanced data security system capable of protecting patient’s biomedical data (reports, biosignals, biomedical images etc). New molecular based medicine which requires the patient to be studied from organ to the molecular level is rapidly developing. Consequently, the biomedical data studied in the project will include data from the organ to the molecular level. This differs from the current practise of focusing mainly on the organ/tissue level. The new system will become an integral component of the future Clinical Information systems. This involves the development of data security standards for patient records, biomedical image processing techniques (e.g. digital watermarking) and interfaces for the security systems.


1. Europe and Southeast Asia are both facing raising healthcare cost. There is an increasing need to address this issue through use of ICT (i.e. web technology). An important example is the use of telemedicine, teleradiology etc which involves transferring medical records between hospitals at different locations within the same country or to other countries to be studied. This will allow better utilisation of resources (manpower, equipment etc) and expertises. 2. With a common international standard developed through a close collaboration between Europe and Asia, interoperability between various systems can be achieved. Cost will be brought down and patients will benefit. 3. The project, if successful, will future encourage the use of ICT in healthcare in not just Europe and Asia, but also other parts of the world.


1. Professor Richard Kitney, Imperial College London, UK. 2. Professor Benoit Macq, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. 3. Thales Singapore



1. Funding for research manpower in Singapore and Europe. 2. Funding for travel between Singapore and Europe for collaborative project discussions with the European partners. 3. Funding for organising and attending workshops. 4. Linking and networking of organisations in both regions interested in the general areas of clinical information systems.


22 COOPERATIVE COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS

Dr. TING, See Ho. Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. TEL: +65 6790 6721 FAX: +65 6793 3318 [email protected] Dr. GUAN, Yong Liang. Nanyang Technological University Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre School of EEE 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. [email protected] http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee5/cv/eylguan.htm


The perennial problem of overcrowding in the licensed band of the electromagnetic radio spectrum can be significantly improved by making it possible for an unlicensed secondary user, also known as a cognitive radio, to intelligently access the radio spectrum without compromising the quality of service for the licensed primary user. This idea of cognitive radio represents a paradigm shift in the usage of electromagnetic spectrum and is widely envisioned as the key to future ubiquitous broadband wireless communications. This project aims to investigate the fundamental capabilities of cognitive radios that employ collaborative sensing and cooperative MIMO communications, and to translate good theoretical findings into proof-of-concept practical implementation in a hardware testbed.


Europe has always been in the forefront of advancing new wireless communication technologies, as exemplified by its leadership in the standardization of GSM and 3G mobile wireless networks. Thus, wireless communication technology is one of the major research strengths of Europe and is recognized as a key technology enabler for future development of the infocomm and digital multimedia industries. Asia is one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of wireless mobile user market. Hence there is evidently a strategic interest for Europe and Southeast Asia to cooperate and develop next-generation wireless communication systems that will generate the next wave of ICT innovation.


• Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands. • Professor Athanasios Manikas, Imperial College London, UK. • Defense Science Organization, Singapore.


The SEACOOP project could greatly facilitate our research efforts by providing funding for research manpower hiring, travel costs for exchange visits and small purchases for the hardware testbed development.


23 IMPROVING STATISTICAL DATA EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION

Has Bunton Title: Deputy Director General Tel: (855) 16 699945 E-mail: [email protected] Organization: National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning Address: Monivong Blvd., Boeung Keng Kong, Phnom Penh


-To improve availability and accessibility to statistics for better informed decision making and planning. -To improve human capacity and hardware and software infrastructure for the proposed project. -To improve communication link to line ministries and provinces for better data exchange and statistical information dissemination. -To improve standard and culture of data and information exchange in the country and the region.


Improved availability, accessibility, and comparability of statistics is a key factor in understanding, cooperation and development in the country, Southeast Asia, and European region.


National Institute of Statistics NIDA Line Ministries Statistics Unit of Planning Office in provinces Development partner’s coordinator knowledgeable of the region


Develop and improve human capacity Improve infrastructure Improve standard and cooperation, within country between ministries and provinces, and with region


24 BIODIVERSITY DATA AND TAXONOMIC TOOLS ON THE WEB

Pr. Simon Tillier EDIT Project Leader CP 43 75231 Paris cedex 05 France Tel 33 1 40 79 37 41 Fax 02 40 79 53 99 Email [email protected] Project manager Vanessa Demanoff [email protected] http://www.e-taxonomy.eu


- develop and make available tools on the web for taxonomic research and availability of taxonomic data and knowledge worldwide - integrate taxonomic research and availability of taxonomic data and knowledge through development of common policies of main taxonomic institutions;


EDIT elaborates structures and tools to contribute remedying the Taxonomic Impediment as identified by the Convention on Biological Diversity: a large part of taxonomic data, knowledge, collections and expertise is housed and managed by European Natural History Museums and Botanical Gardens. Developing the IT tools for handling and disseminating taxonomic data and knowledge makes those available in the countries of origin.


SE Asian Taxonomic Institutions / Agencies in charge of Biodiversity / Biodiversity informatics teams What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

Make contact, develop networking and help engineering common projects.


25 TOURISM TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE

Apichai Sakulsureeyadej MSL Software (Thailand) Co. Ltd. 38 Sukhumvit Road soi 22 Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand Tel: +66-2-663-4600 Fax: +66-2-663-5255 Mobile: +66-89-666-0076 Email: [email protected] URL : www.mslsoftware.com


The objective of this project is to create a blueprint of standards for the South east asian region with regards to information exchange within the Tourism Industry. The Tourism industry is one of SEAsia’s largest industry, bringing in massive revenue that comprises of each member economy within the region, as well as creating jobs that lead positive implications into other industries such as Retail, Food and Beverage, Education, and others. However, the SEAsian region lacks standards that enable individual operators to perform data communication with global partners. Thus, the project proposed here would drive the creation and adoption of such standards.


Creating standards that allow interoperability of data and systems would enable tourism businesses within Europe and Southeast Asia to inter-trade at a Real-time basis. Common standards would the basis of exchanging real-time reservation data, payments, schedules, and other details that would enable tourism businesses in both regions to increase revenue as well as automate many of the data entry tasks. This would eventually uplift the potential of the tourism industry for both the regions.


These are tentative partners that we would approach for this project: 1. Tourism Technology Association (www.tourismtechnology.net) 2. Open Travel Alliance (www.opentravel.org) 3. Local Government bodies within the South East Asian region 4. UNWTO


We would like to obtain funding for the following activities: 1. Create a steering committee amongst key European Tourism leaders, SouthEast Asian Tourism business leaders, related government representatives from both regions, key representatives from ICT bodies, and other related organizations such as Open Travel Alliance and UNWTO. 2. Conduct dozens of Roundtable workshops that would result in draft blueprints that would allow tourism agencies, hotels, aggregators, OTAs (Online travel agents), and others to inter-exchange data using the SOA architecture. 3. Set up a temporary body that would oversee the training and adoption of the standards as a partner of Open Travel Alliance and UNWTO. 4. Measure success through increment of number of businesses that would trade with each other on a real time basis by adopting such standards.


26 REUSE AND EVOLUTION OF SYSTEM FAMILIES WITH GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES

Stan Jarzabek, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543 [email protected] http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stan fax: 65-6779-4580; tel: 65-6516-2863 (office) 65-96255863 (mobile)


To remain competitive, most organizations today develop and maintain families of similar software products, rather than a single product. Product families arise in software evolution whereby multiple system variants are built for many customers, and in reuse via product line approach. Current component-based and architecture-centric approaches are complex and lack automation. Despite years of research, reuse has not become a standard practice. The objective of this project is to support product families based on generative approaches (e.g.XVCLxvcl.comp.nus.edu.sg). Our initial experiences, both lab studies and industrial applications, indicate that generative techniques have a potential to overcome limitations of component approaches, reaching higher reuse levels, automating reuse-based product derivation, and also easing follow up evolution [1][2]. In the proposed project, we shall study problems that hinder effective software reuse and evolutionand explore a range generative approaches developed in research and industry to improve reuse/evolution strategies. We believe that effective solution require a drastic change of how we think abousoftware, a modification of the current software paradigm. Therefore, along the technical research, we shall also investigate the issues of technology transfer into industrial practice, with our existing base of industry collaborations and new ones. [1] Grudzien, A., Traczyk, T., and Jarzabek, S. “Application of Generative Programming to Evolution of Object-Relational Mapping Layer,’ Proc. 2nd AIS SIGSAND European Symp. on Systems Analysis and Design, Gdansk, Poland, June 5, 2007 [2] Jarzabek, S. Effective Software Maintenance and Evolution: Reuse-based Approach, CRC Press Taylor & Francis, 2007


There seems to be a deadlock in technical solutions for software reuse and evolution. The state-of-the-art solutions have been almost entirely focused on managerial issues (see Software Engineering Institute Product Line initiative). Technical solutions are based on components and manual-intensive reuse, with many problems reported from industries. Practical solutions to these problems are of strategic importance to any software company world-wide.


Dr. Tomasz Traczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, and Dr. Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore Our collaboration already started and initial studies are documented in [1] [1] Grudzien, A., Traczyk, T., and Jarzabek, S. “Application of Generative Programming to Evolution of Object-Relational Mapping Layer,” Proc. 2nd AIS SIGSAND European Symp. on Systems Analysis and Design, Gdansk, Poland, June 5, 2007


Exchange of project staff between Warsaw University of Technology and National University of Singapore, to facilitate collaboration. In the future, also hiring Research Assistants.


27 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY &

ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE

Assoc Prof GUAN, Yong Liang. Nanyang Technological University Positioning and Wireless Technology Centre School of EEE 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. [email protected] http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee5/cv/eylguan.htm Prof Xie, Lihua. Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. [email protected] http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elhxie


Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be deployed in large scale surveillance for civilian security, search & rescue, as well as environmental monitoring, forecasting and early warning. These require the coordination of distributed sensors, data fusion, sensor resource and energy management, as well as the design and construction of a scalable, robust, and efficient wireless communication infrastructure for relaying the sensor information. In this collaboration, we propose to investigate and improve the enabling technologies of WSNs for applications such as unmanned vehicle surveillance, environmental pollution monitoring or water quality control. We will also look into important design issues of realising a scalable and robust wireless communication infrastructure with localization capability for relaying the sensor data and sensor location information. Main research issues include the uncertainty modelling in unreliable network environments, energy-efficient quantization/compression for bandwidth assignment, cooperative communications, distributed estimation with limited communications, QoS provisioning via cross-layer integration, target detection, localization, tracking and inception, cooperation of multiple sensing agents, sensor channel measurement and characterization. We are also interested to construct a small prototype of the WSN to conduct proof-of-concept field measurements in Singapore and/or Europe.


Many homeland security and environmental issues of today have no geographical boundaries: they affect Asia and Europe alike. Technologies developed in this collaboration are expected to benefit not just both regions, but the rest of the world too.


• Professor Zidong Wang, Brunel University, U.K. • Professor Andreas Molisch, Lund University, Sweden. • Thales



1. Funding for research manpower in Singapore and Europe. 2. Funding for travel between Singapore and Europe for collaborative project discussions. 3. Funding for organising and attending workshops. 4. Linking and networking of organisations in both regions interested in the areas of environmental and homeland.


28 PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA WORKSHOPS FOR ICT RESEARCHERS

AND JOURNALISTS Dr Magdeline Pokar Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 1954261958 Address: 65, Covent Garden, Willingham, Cambridge CB24 5GD, UK


The objectives of the project are to encourage long term communication and dissemination of information. Our experience of working closely with research institutions in Southeast Asia has shown that researchers are not trained on “How to talk to the media” nor understand the tight deadlines associated with 24/7 news coverage, meanwhile journalists have little patience for the intricacies of the research world. This breeds misunderstanding and increases difficulties in wider information dissemination. We believe these workshops will go a long way in fostering better understanding between journalists and researchers. Public communication of science is a fast growing field in Europe and we believe there is much room for cooperation between Europe and Southeast Asia for these workshops.


The media is key to dissemination of information. Lack of dissemination from the research communities to the wider public can have very serious long term consequences in public opinion. For example, listen to the radio or watch TV in Southeast Asia and you are more likely to hear about the latest research in the United States than in their own country or Europe. Southeast Asian –European media and public communication workshops can pave the way towards better ties between researchers and journalists within Southeast Asia itself and with Europe, and better dissemination of information in the longer term. With Euro Science Open Forum in Barcelona this July 2008, and the World Conference for Science Journalists in London next year, Europe is in a very good position to share expertise and deepen their communication and information dissemination ties with Southeast Asia.


The project partners would be 1) ICT research institutions in Southeast Asia – their press officers and lead researchers 2) Selected public communicators and ICT journalists in Europe e.g. UK’s Science Media Centre 3) Top news and ICT journalists in Southeast Asia


The SEACOOP project can help support process of organising the workshops, bringing European science communicators and journalists to Southeast Asia and selected journalists in Southeast Asia to the workshops.


29 DISCOVERING THE WEB’S SEMANTICS

DOMINIQUE LAURENT UNIVERSITE DE CERGY-PONTOISE DEPARTEMENT DES SCIENCES INFORMATIQUES 2, AVENUE A. CHAUVIN - BP 222 95302 CERGY-PONTOISE CEDEX - FRANCE EMAIL: [email protected] TEL : +33 (0)1 34 25 66 20 FAX : +33 (0)1 34 25 66 30 STEPHANE BRESSAN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE COMPUTING 1, LAW LINK SINGAPORE 117590 EMAIL: [email protected] TEL: (+65) 6516 3543 FAX: (+65) 779 4580


The project aims at devising and evaluating tools and techniques that discover and leverage the World Wide Web’s latent semantics in order to enhance Web applications. Applications being developed in Asian partner institutions provide cases and serve as testbeds for the testing and deployment of results. As observed by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee, as he recently proposed the idea a Giant Global Graph as a semantic infrastructure that connects not only computers but also information and people, we see, at the convergence point of computing, communication and content the call for a semantic and social Web: the Web 2.0. The net effect of applications such as blogs, RSS and Atom feeds, friend of a friend networks is the creation and dissemination of meaning whether in the form of actual information or implicitly in interactions among users (for instance the emergence of social groups). This project looks into the opportunity to discover and leverage this latent semantics. More specifically the project focuses on the mining and analysis of interaction (usage, query, posts, etc.) logs and streams with the objective of discovering patterns that identify and characterize emergent communities and profiles of their members. The project also studies the opportunities to leverage the discovered features and semantics to personalize and contextualize the services and interactions. At the same time, the project studies the techniques needed to diagnose and prevent privacy violation risks that naturally arise from the very same discovery.


The project is a multilateral thematic project. The ability to effectively use the Web and the ability to invent, build and commercialize tomorrow’s Web applications and services depends on the capability to discover and harness the latent semantics of the Web. Because of its timeliness to address this issue, the project is of strategic interest for both Europe and South East Asia. The project is of mutual interest because it can benefit not only from the combined and complementary research competences of the participating teams in Europe and Southeast Asia


but also because it can leverage the differences in economical, social and cultural context and their reflection on the utilization of the information infrastructure in the different countries and regions of Europe and South East Asia represented in providing a richer and more realistic environment the study of cases and for testing. From an academic point of view, the project offers an opportunity to enhance existing collaborations and to initiate new ones. In particular, graduate student exchanges will be encouraged in the framework of the project.


� In Europe: - ETIS-UMR CNRS, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France (Dominique LAURENT) - LRI-CNRS, Université Paris 11, France (Nicolas SPYRATOS) - LIRMM-CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, France (Maguelonne TEISSEIRE and Anne LAURENT) - LI, Université de Tours, France (Arnaud GIACOMETTI and Patrick MARCEL) - LGI2P, Ecole des Mines d’Ales, France (Pascal PONCELET) - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy (Carlo MEGHINI) - Multimedia Laboratory, Polytechnic of Crete, Greece (Stavros CHRISTODOULAKIS) � In Asia: - School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Stéphane BRESSAN) - HELP University College, Malaysia (Yeow Wei CHOONG) - Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia (Putri SAPTAWATI) - PASTIC/PSF, Pakistan (Saifullah AZIM) - STIKOM Bali, Indonesia (Budi SENTANA) - Meme Media Lab, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (Yuzuru TANAKA)


The project could benefit the support of SEACOOP in the following activities:

- find industry partners (SEACOOP supporting organizations) interested in building cases and testing and deploying the project’s technologies - fund mobility of researchers and graduate students to implement the research collaboration - organize seminars and workshops - promote project’s visibility and disseminate results - consolidate and expand the project team in Europe and Asia (e.g. SEACOOP consortium partners) and infrastructure in order to prepare a major cooperation initiative (for instance a project proposal for the European framework programme)


30 MULTISAT-RRD Ubiquitous and Multifunctional Mobile & Wireless Satellite-Based all-IP Networking Technology 4G with Fully Distributed, Mesh, and Scalable Architecture for Remote, Rural, and Difficult-for-Access Regions –

Prof. Alexander B. Markhasin Head of the Telecommunication Networks Department of the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences Phone/Fax: +7 383 2698273, [email protected]


The up-to-date broadband mobile and wireless satellite-based communications have mainly a centralized low-meshed architecture. Such structures are topologically not adequate to distributed traffic topology for many countries with small/irregular density of population, and also rural, remote, and difficult-for-access (RRD) territories (sea archipelago, mountains, jungle, tundra, etc.) which are characterized by weak-developed terrestrial core networks. The RRD territories cover about 90% of the land including Southeast Asia, and also other regions of Asia, Africa, etc. The centralized architecture, in fact, ensures cost-effective multimedia communications only in conditions of urbanized areas which widely cover the fiber optic core networks (only 10% of land). Unfortunately, the cost of centralized systems is unacceptably large for deployment of future mass broadband communications in RRD regions. Contrast to widely urbanized regions, the satellite-based wireless & mobile communications play role not only infrastructure’s added facilities for “exotic” geographic conditions but can be a major and/or single core and access network structures for RRD territories. The RRD regions “open not only new markets for technologies, but also bring forth newer technological challenges and opportunities”. A dramatic RRD challenge is the critical discrepancy of the up-to-date centralized architecture concerning the radically distributed topology of the data streams. The RRD adequate networks architecture must be also radically distributed, i.e., grid-like. The objectives of the proposed project are investigation, developing, trials, and standardization of the advanced concept of the satellite-based grid-like networking technology of future 4G wireless & mobile communications with radically distributed, mesh, and scalable all-IP architecture for RRD territories [1-3]. This networking technology will allow a cost-effective support and integration of mobile satellite and terrestrial cellular, personal, WLAN, WiFi, WiMax, and other wireless core and access networks of future generations 4G for RRD territories. [1] A. Markhasin, “Conception of Satellite-Based Ubiquitous & Multifunctional Mo-bile and Wireless all-IP Environment 4G with Fully Distributed, Mesh, and Scalable Architecture for RRD Areas”, The 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications – PIMRC’07, 3-7 September 2007, Athens, Greece, Paper #275, pp. 1-5. [2] A. Markhasin, “Ubiquitous and Multifunctional Mobile Satellite all-IP over DVB-S Networking Technology 4G with Radically Distributed Architecture for RRD Regions”, International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications – IWSSC’07, 13-15 September 2007, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 99-103. [3] A. Markhasin, “QoS-Oriented MAC Technology for Distributed All-MPLS/ATM Satellite Integrated Platform for 3G+/4G and WLAN Communications”, in 14th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, 19 – 23 June 2005, Proceeding, paper #215, p. 1-5


Developing of S&T cooperation on 4G communications for RRD territories between Europe and Southeast Asia and synergies with national and international programmes and initiatives similarly addressing EU-Southeast Asia S&T cooperation on ICT.



The participants of the SEACOOP and eMobility partnerships. What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

The Identification and support of the proposed project as one of a 10-15 key SEACOOP’s opportunities of strategic cooperation using the possible STREP, NoE, or CSA schemes, and also suitable international/national programmes.


31 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RENDER FARM

Name: Mochamad Hariadi ST., MSc., PhD. Laboratory: Multimedia Network Department: Electrical Engineering Faculty: Industrial Technology Address: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology Surabaya 60111, INDONESIA Phone/Fax.: +62-31-5947302/+62-31-5931237 (Mobile phone: +62-81803002745) e-mail: [email protected]


The objective of the proposed project is to develop a Render Farm, a computer cluster utilize High Performance Computing (HPC) to render any computer generated imagery of many applications, ranged from scientific to commercial product visualization, and from educational materials to film animation. Render is a term in computer graphics to describe a process to generate an image from a 3D model or object by means of computer programs to calculate geometry, viewpoint, lighting, shading and texture. A computer cluster is a group of loosely coupled computers that work together closely so that in many respects they can be viewed as though they are a single computer. Clusters are commonly, but not always, connected through fast local area networks. Clusters are usually deployed to improve speed and/or reliability over that provided by a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or reliability. Figure 1 shows the example of computer cluster.

Figure 1. Computer clusters of Purdue University High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters are implemented primarily to provide increased performance by splitting a computational task across many different nodes in the cluster, and are most commonly used in scientific computing. One of the more popular HPC implementations is a cluster with nodes running Linux as the OS and free software to implement the parallelism. This configuration is often referred to as a Beowulf cluster. Such clusters commonly run custom programs which have been designed to exploit the parallelism available on HPC clusters. Many such programs use libraries such as MPI which are specially designed for writing scientific applications for HPC computer clusters.


HPC clusters are optimized for workloads which require jobs or processes happening on the separate cluster computer nodes to communicate actively during the computation. These include computations where intermediate results from one node's calculations will affect future calculations on other nodes. This is so called cluster computing.

Figure 2. Amdahl’s Law The formal engineering basis of cluster computing as a means of doing parallel work of any sort was arguably invented by Gene Amdahl of IBM, who in 1967 published what has come to be regarded as the seminar paper on parallel processing. Amdahl's Law describes mathematically the speedup one can expect from parallelizing any given otherwise serially performed task on a parallel architecture (See Figure 2). The followings are a number of application which can be rendered in the render farm of this project: 1. Creating high precision 3D modelling of commercial product: Visualizing 3D view of building.


This project is certainly will give mutual benefits and interest to both sides, Europe and Southeast Asia especially Indonesia. For commercial purposes, European industries can deliver the work of rendering processing partly or fully to the render farms in South East Asia especially in Indonesia. This scheme will give competitive cost due to low labour cost. Although utilizes mass computer production, a render farm requires man power. For research purposes, research organizations or universities of both sides can do research in render farm or in the application of the render farm.


European industry: 1. Blender foundation (www.blender.org) Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU (General Public License). European Research Organizations:


1. Universities under the DASconsortium. DAS (Distributed ASCI Supercomputer) is a wide-area distributed cluster designed by the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI). DAS will be used for research on parallel and distributed computing by five Dutch universities: 1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 2. University of Amsterdam 3. Delft University of Technology 4. University of Leiden 5. University of Utrecht 2. DutchGrid: Large-scale Distributed Computing in the Netherlands The DutchGrid is an open platform for academic and research grid computing in the Netherlands.


Provides financial support which includes: 1. The development of the render farm 2. Training and consultation cost to staff members. 3. Promotions


32 RURAL NEXT GENERATION NETWORK (RNGN) IN INDONESIA

DR.-ING. IDA BAGUS KESAWA NARAYANA FRAUNHOFER REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE INDONESIA MENARA THAMRIN SUITE 3A07 JL. MH. THAMRIN KAV. 3, JAKARTA 10250 INDONESIA TEL.: +62 21 3154795 FAX.: +62 21 3154195 EMAIL: [email protected]


The main objective of this project is to develop solutions for rural information and communications technology in Indonesia. Due to the geographical situation in Indonesia with its wide distances of up to 100 km between islands and villages, no suitable and cost-effective technology is available to deploy communication infrastructure for most of the rural areas. State-of-the-art technologies such as WiMAX or DVB-RCT (DVB Return Channel through Terrestrial) do not fulfil the requirements of a Rural Next Generation Network in Indonesia. Based on channel characterization and investigation of state-of-the-art technologies an appropriate waveform and a dedicated hardware for the wireless communication link will be developed and validated. These technologies have to meet also the requirements with respect to criteria such as low production costs, low power consumption, climate conditions, installation and maintenance effort, and configurability. An important marginal condition is that in fact 70 per cent of Indonesia has no access to a grid-connected power supply. Therefore, an appropriate stand-alone power supply has to be developed for the communication equipment of the R-NGN based on regenerative energy.


The development of technologies for rural communication and the development of prototype networks will reinforce European leadership in broadcasting and wireless communication knowledge and expertise. Most likely new intellectual property will be a result of the research work and will strengthen Europe’s technology position worldwide. The first 1000 communication units for the Rural-NGN field trial in Indonesia will be financed by the Indonesian authorities and produced together by the cooperation of the European and Indonesian telecommunication industry. Based on mutual benefit and complementation, this integration of European/Indonesian products in the first stage offers the scope for mass production and commercialization for offering low cost Rural NGN for world’s rural areas. Even an Indonesian/European joint venture could be established.


Indonesian Partners Institute Technology of Bandung (ITB) The Research Centre for Information and Communication (ICT-RC) of ITB focuses on the research and development of ICT for economic development in the rural areas since 2004. They are running a test bed for rural ICT applications in Bandung, Indonesia with state of the art line-of-sight technology. PT. Hariff Daya Tunggal Engineering


PT. Hariff is an expert in system integration of communication equipment. Its design process covers from technical and environmental requirements to installation, operation and maintenance. European Partners Fraunhofer IIS Fraunhofer IIS is one of the largest R&D institutions worldwide dedicated to the design and implementation of terrestrial and satellite-based digital broadcasting systems. The institute is known for its expertise in communication system design from user requirements driven system concepts to prototype implementation Nokia Siemens Networks Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the world’s largest network communications companies and a leading position in all key markets across the world. * Not yet confirmed Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer ISE is a largest solar energy research institute in Europe. Its research on off-grid power supplies does not only concentrate on photovoltaic, but also on hybrid systems in which different power sources like photovoltaic (PV), wind energy, hydroelectric and fuel cells are integrated to meet customer needs on cost efficient, reliable and ecologically friendly way. Steca GmbH, Germany Steca GmbH is the world market leader for solar charging controllers. For off grid PV power systems Steca supplies a full range of solar charge regulators and standalone inverters. Especially the famous Steca PV Hybrid System concept is optimally suited for high demanding power supply systems like telecommunication applications and village power supply systems.


According the agreements at the meeting on May 6, 2006 between RISTEK (Ministry of Research and Technology of Indonesia), DEPKOMINFO (Ministry of Communication and Information of Indonesia), the Institute Technology of Bandung (ITB) and Fraunhofer Indonesian Representatives, the development of a first prototype will be financed with a total budget from the Indonesian side of approx. 4 million euros. A first estimate, based on the projected work packages and experience with similar projects, indicates that budget of approx. 3 million euros for the European research partners and 2 million euros for the European industrial partners is required. It is assumed that the research partners will get 100 per cent funding and the industrial partners get 50 per cent funding. The project partners will apply funding by the EU through the SEACOOP project


33 MOBILE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM M-HEALTHCARE= "MOBILE MEDICINE + MOBILE COMMUNICATION + MOBILE INFORMATION + MOBILE SOCIETY"

Ir. Phal DES Royal University of Phnom Penh IT Center, Room 217B Email:[email protected] phone:855 12939010


- To improve health care system in remote areas with the utilization of M-healthcare applications linking from central/foreign hospitals to the rural ones. - To disseminate the health care information and awareness to rural people by providing online workshops or trainings from central/foreign hospitals and organizations. It will make easier for mobile patients to interactively get the medical attention and advice they need. - Development of a methodology, model and tool environment for development of adaptive application for the situation of context of use. - Design and implementation of a middleware platform for ubiquitous computing with support for seamless device integration including device federation, context-awareness, service adaptation, service discovery, service migration and service multimedia. - Designing two pilot applications for end users about mobile health database and videoconferencing. - Establishment of an experimental infrastructure for ubiquitous computing based on heterogeneous network technologies and devices with integration of sensor networks as a common basic for long term cooperation between the partners as well as for further research and education.


- To increase efficiency in health care, thereby decreasing costs. One possible way of decreasing costs would be by avoiding duplicative or unnecessary diagnostic or therapeutic interventions, through enhanced communication possibilities between health care establishments, and through patient involvement. - M-healthcare may enhance the quality of health care for example by allowing comparisons between different providers, involving consumers as additional power for quality assurance, and directing patient streams to the best quality providers. - By making the knowledge bases of medicine and personal electronic records accessible to consumers over mobile computing, M-healthcare opens new avenues for patient-centered medicine, and enables evidence-based patient choice. - Encouragement of a new relationship between the patient and health professional, towards a true partnership, where decisions are made in a shared manner. - Education of physicians through online mobile sources (continuing medical education) and consumers (health education, tailored preventive information for consumers). - M-healthcare involves new forms of patient-physician interaction and poses new challenges and threats to ethical issues such as online professional practice, informed consent, privacy and equity issues.


On the SEA side:

- Hanoi: Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing of the Institute of Mathematics (Head: Prof. Dr. Hoang Xuan Phu),


- Vientiane: National University of Laos, Faculty of Science (Dean: Prof. Dr. Somkiat Phasy). - Ho Chi Minh City: University of Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering (Dean: Prof. Dr. Thoai Nam) - Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and its newly founded IT Centre (Director: Prof. Phal Des) On the European side: - IWR: the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of the University of Heidelberg (Director: Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Bock) and its newly founded Graduate School Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative). - TUD: Chair for Computer Networks, Institute for System Architecture, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dr. h. c. Alexander Schill)


- provide the partners from Europe - invite to join the workshop or seminar - provide the fellowship/scholarship short-term or long-term - Equipments


34 POSSIBILITY OF DISTANCE LEARNING IN CAMBODIA

Dr. CHHUON Chanthan Executive Rector Phnom Penh International University (PPIU) No. 441 Monivong Blvd, PO Box 2535, Phnom Penh 3, Cambodia Tel: +855-23-216 331 Fax: +855-23-216 332 Mobile: +855-12-907 463 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Website: www.ppiu.edu.kh / www.iic.edu.kh


- To reduce the educational gap between cities and rural areas and between the country and the region. - To promote educational opportunities for those who want combine work and study. - To diversify the educational deliveries by enhancing technology-based education in the country with the integration of ICT - To make the education cost effective - To keep the country educational system in trend with the region as well as the world


- To share experiences - To globalize ICT - To develop more and even more ICT between the two regions - To reduce ICT gap between the Europe and Southeast Asia


- Phnom Penh International University would like to work closely with any institution as partner proposed by SEACOOP.


We wish to have both financial and technical supports from SEACOOP.


35 KMHER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

CHEA, Sok Huor General Manager [email protected] Phone: +85512811947


- Research & Develop Applications in both Windows and Open Source platform such as: - Khmer Lexicon - Khmer Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Khmer Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Khmer Dictionary in hard copy and electronics forms - Khmer Text to Speech and Speech to text


Want to be one of the partners of SEACOOP Project Who would be the project partners?

National Information communications Development Authority (NiDA) National Institute of Language of the Royal Academy PAN Localization Cambodia of International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada


- Human Resources - Funding Resources


36 ASEAN-EU VIRTUALLY-IMMERSIVE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE (VIMAC)

Faridah Noor Mohd Noor, PhD (Associate Professor) Department of English Language Faculty of Languages and Linguistics University of Malaya 59100 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia [email protected]


To create a virtually immersive museum of Asian and European arts and culture using the latest technology for digitization, visualization, and e-infrastructure. To showcase tangible assets, artefacts as well as local and indigenous knowledge of arts and culture. To promote greater appreciation and civilisational dialogue through intercultural exchange of culture and heritage.


This project has strategic and mutual interest to both Europe and Southeast Asia because it will be able to act as a platform to promote wider accessibility and a deeper appreciation of the diverse arts and cultural heritage but also to foster mutual respect and understanding of each other’s cultural heritage. Access to a virtual museum that showcases both the preserved tangible and intangible local and indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage will promote the colourful heritage of the different civilisations and ensure these different cultures will continue to prosper and coexist to help foster global peace.


1. Museum of Asian Arts, the University of Malaya 2. Lubeck Puppet Museum, Lubeck, Germany. 3. Multimedia Development Corporation (MDEC)


We would be most appreciative if SEACOOP could help seek for us partners to cooperate on technical aspect and possible funding to realise this project.


37 INFORMATICS FOR RURAL EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

(IREACH)

CHEA, Sok Huor Project Manager [email protected] Phone: +85512811947 www.ireach.org.kh


To develop a community-owned wireless broadband network to address the needs of rural poor in Cambodia, through the provision of a range of local and external ICT based services.


Wireless broadband offers huge potential to rural areas in terms of developing broadband interactivity and services, especially in remote areas. Technical solutions to deliver a range of multi-media content at low cost, including e-government services (health, education, agricultural extension etc.), enterprise support and media, are a key element in the development of poor rural communities. This is already an expanding market, but is likely to grow far more in the future.


EU firms involved in building wireless broadband equipment suppliers, CPE equipment, and software and hardware solutions for services delivery; working with local Cambodia IT firms [could mention our partner], in partnership with iREACH project


Locate partners in the EU and promote project application development.


38 HYBRID POWER GENERATION FOR ICT EQUIPMENT USING IN REMOTE AREA

TOTOK MUJIONO BASIC ELECTRONICS LABORATORY Department of Electrical Engineering Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Kampus ITS Sukolilo, Surabaya 60111 INDONESIA [email protected]


To develop power generation system for ICT (information and communication technology) equipments located in remote area by making use of available local renewable energy resources. Tropical countries like Indonesia have many alternative energy resources available such as wind, sun rays, hydro, geothermal, etc. The availability and potency of these resources varies in each places. The challenge is to use these available resources with optimal combination to develop a system for power generation which will provide the electric energy for ICT equipment. The system should be suitable for the ICT equipment supported. Research activities includes: identify socio-economics condition of local people, identify available local energy resource, and identify types of information needed. Thus, kind of ICT equipment needed can be identified and then developed. Estimated time duration: 1 year.


- It can be used to solve one of the problems in limited information access of rural area people. - It can be used to develop more understanding between European people and Southeast Asian people.


Indonesian Partner: - Electric Measurement Lab., EE Dept., ITS: Sjamsul Anam, Vita Listyaningrum - Mechatronics Lab., ME Dept., ITS: Suwarmin European and Others Southeast Asian communities: - Open


- Share experience between European and Southeast Asian communities. - Support funding.


39 DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR RURAL AREA

APPLICATION

TOTOK MUJIONO BASIC ELECTRONICS LABORATORY Department of Electrical Engineering Institute of Technology Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Kampus ITS Sukolilo, Surabaya 60111 INDONESIA [email protected]


To develop a simple and practical early warning system for rural area application. In Indonesia, there are many kinds of natural disasters such as volcano eruption, earthquake, flooding, tsunami, erosion, hurricane, etc. Many areas facing these disasters are located in remote area with minimal communication and first aid facilities. Some times the disaster in each area has its own characteristics because of the natural condition of the place where the disaster happen. Beside that, the culture and behaviour of the people inhabit that area, where disaster happen, is some times also unique. They have their own way to respond the natural disaster based on their experience and knowledge. The objective of this research is mainly to combine their way (local wisdom) and available advanced technology to have more precise in disaster detection (early warning). Beside that, the speed and the coverage area of broadcasting that information (disaster warning and its magnitude) are also increased, not only locally but also nationally. The activities include: study of possible types of disaster in certain area, study local people way of responding the disaster, study the possible system which can support those ways, and system design and implementation. Estimated time duration: 1 year.


It can be used to build a better understanding between Southeast Asia people and European people.


Indonesian Partner: - Mechatronics Lab., ME Dept., ITS: Suwarmin European and Others Southeast Asian communities: - Open


- Share experience - Support funding


40 DEVELOPMENT OF MILLIMETER-WAVE BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS FOR TROPICAL REGIONS

Dr. Gamantyo Hendrantoro Department of Electrical Engineering Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Kampus ITS Sukolilo, Surabaya 60111, Indonesia Phone: +62-31-5936940, 5947302 Fax: +62-31-5996670, 5931237 Email: [email protected], [email protected]


To develop broadband wireless access systems and networks in the millimetre-wave band (30-40 GHz) for implementation in tropical regions characterized by heavy rainfalls, such as the region of Southeast Asia.


(1) Development of broadband wireless access infrastructures, including those utilizing the millimetre-wave band, is a key requirement in improving the information services and communication networks in any country. In particular, many of the developing countries, where development of broadband communications networks is crucial to the economic improvement, are located in tropical regions with heavy rainfalls known to be the greatest obstacle for millimetre- wave communications. (2) European research community have had a lot of experiences in this field, as shown by excellent and comprehensive results from the COST-280 research program that involved European universities, research organizations, and industries. (3) We have been developing adaptive transmission methods for terrestrial mm-wave wireless access systems that are designed to be highly resistant toward tropical rain attenuation and claimed to provide bit error rate of less than 10-11 with 99.99% availability. This invention has been filed for Indonesian patent in 2007 and are still being improved to achieve better performance.


(1) Academics/researchers developing similar systems for use in Europe affiliated with various universities and organizations, such as ETSI, ESA-ESTEC, Rutherford-Appleton Labs (UK), Athens University (Greece), etc., and those in Southeast Asia. (2) Industries that might be interested in development of broadband wireless access, such as Siemens, Alcatel, etc.


(1) Help identify European and Southeast Asia organizations who are interested in developing millimetre-wave wireless access systems for use in regions with heavy rains. (2) Facilitate coordination to synergize research efforts and help prepare an international joint research project in this field among European and Southeast Asia countries.


41 INDONESIAN PACS INITIATIVE TO INTEGRATE INDONESIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

Name: DR. I KETUT EDDY PURNAMA Laboratory: Digital Informatics Department: Electrical Engineering Faculty: Industrial Technology Address: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology Surabaya 60111, INDONESIA Phone/Fax.: +62-31-5947302/+62-31-5931237 (Mobile phone: +62-85850806652, +62-31 77587208) e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]


The objective of the proposed project is to initiate a so-called Indonesian PACS Initiative as an embryo for the implementation of a reliable, consistent, and comprehend database of medical records or information in Indonesia. This project will implement the open source PACS in at least two hospitals. The communication among the two PACS will be done via internet or private line. PACS, stands for Picture Archiving and Communication System, was initiated by the radiology community in the early 1980s. This system consists of image acquisition devices, storage archive units and databases, display (view) workstations, and computer processors, in which all integrated by two main components, a communication system and a database management system. Commercial PACS has been marketed for decades. Due to the financial issues and open connectivity among vendors, non-commercial PACS and even open source PACS have been proposed. Typical PACS architecture is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Typical PACS architecture In developed countries especially in Europe, nowadays, commercial PACS exists as a need in most of hospitals. PACS become the source of information for diagnostic and the chamber of any medical information, images, medical records, videos, and voice, resulted from every medical examination. The relevance of PACS has grown far beyond its initial conception. PACS demonstrate their value by facilitating large-scale research and education in addition to clinical services. Its accessibility has also been expanding from local access to non-local access, for example, by providing the access via extranet or internet. In the developing countries like Indonesia, on the other hand, PACS in hospitals is not something urgent to be implemented due to several reasons such as financial issues, demographics and geographic situation. This project proposes a different approach to implement PACS in Indonesia by using the combination commercial PACS and open source PACS. Commercial PACS is proposed to


be installed in several main hospitals, while the open source PACS can be implemented in the small hospital or hospital in the remote areas.


This project is certainly will give mutual benefits and interest to both sides, Europe and Southeast Asia especially Indonesia. Benefits to European industries: 1. European industries can create their market in Indonesia. Although financial is one of main issues, the PACS implementation in several main hospitals is still possible. Small hospitals or the hospitals in remote areas can install the open source PACS as proposed by this project. 2. European industries can maintain their PACS market in Indonesia by continuously improving their PACS based on new feedback obtained from the implementation of PACS in Indonesia. Benefits to European research organizations: 1. Some diseases are specific to tropical areas such as Indonesia. This fact may raise an interest from the research organization in Europe. Hence, the collaboration research with the research organization in Indonesia becomes possible. Benefits to the Government of Indonesia: 1. The implementation of PACS nationally will make the availability of the national medical data bank possible. 2. The healthcare network will be improved by adding the new paradigm, medical information service oriented, to the existing paradigm, data collection oriented. Many information can be provided by the availability of PACS Benefits to research organizations in Indonesia: 1. Research becomes more interest for the medical people or physician since information will be available in the medical data bank. 2. Research can be done in a more comprehend way and can be scale up to national and even international. 3. More diseases can be investigated.


European Research Organizations: 1. EuroPACS (www.euroPACS.org) EuroPACS is the European society for the promotion of PACS. 2. www.osirix-viewer.org An European based company who develop an open source software called Osirix. This software can be installed at the work station as the PACS viewer. 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands (www. umcg.nl). UMCG have implemented PACS, and the project leader (I Ketut Eddy Purnama) has strong link and collaboration with them.


Provides financial support which includes: 1. The development of PACS hardware and software 2. Training and consultation cost to staff members. 3. Promotions


42 SOUTH EAST ASIA NETWORK FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans Georg Bock Director Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 368 DE-69120 Heidelberg Germany

e-mail: [email protected] phone: +49 (0) 6221 54 8237 fax: +49 (0) 6221 54 5444


- to support the formation and maintenance of a network between South East Asian universities, respectively their institutions, and of academic or non-academic research institutions, in order to promote the development of computational science and engineering (CSE) and the methods of Scientific in SEA, both in research and education - to support the exchange of information, experience, and personnel on all levels, from undergraduate students to senior scientist, between SEA institutions and corresponding European institutions - to stimulate and perform exemplary research projects in CSE of particular local or regional relevance that demonstrate the importance of this methodology for the emerging countries of SEA, e.g., in agriculture, environmental problems, scheduling, transport and logistics, network planning, public health, epidemiology, and many more - to support the provision and operation of the necessary ICT infrastructure including (low cost) high performance computing facilities - to support the integration of scientists in the field of CSE in the developing and emerging countries of SEA into the international scientific community - to help training the next generation of leading scientists in this field in SEA through joint graduate and doctoral programs, collaborative research projects and programs, sandwich training projects, or other forms of collaborations in research and training, which are of mutual interest


Computational Science and Engineering, and the methods of Scientific Computing, e.g., of process modelling and simulation, optimisation and control, image processing, parallel and distributed computing, computer graphics and scientific visualization are a rapidly growing area of research and development with an enormous impact on the economic development, and on society as a whole (see, e.g., the PITAC report of 2005). They have developed into a key technology, which is already indispensable for many companies in highly industrialized countries, who depend on it to develop better products, or to shorten their development times. Hence, this relatively cheap technology, which mainly depends on developing the human resources, should also be of high strategic value for developing and emerging countries, and examples for this have already been established in the past. While the interests of SEA should be obvious, taking also into account that curricular activities in this area will also produce young academics well trained in a variety of modern IC technologies, the interest of Europe would be in attracting highly talented young scholars to do a part of their professional education, training and research at a European institution, and thus temporarily augment Europe's research capacities in this area. The close collaboration with junior and advanced


scientists in SEA in this strategically important area of scientific and technological development will also help to grow closer ties between Europe and SEA, which would be a strategic value of its own.


On the European side, two of the partners in the network would be - IWR: the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of the University of Heidelberg (Director: Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Bock) and its newly founded Graduate School Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (in the framework of the German Excellence Initiative). IWR has promoted computational science and engineering for 2 decades. Presently, it comprises 380 scientists (including 250 doctoral students) from various disciplines. Since 10 years, IWR engages in the promotion of CSE in the developing countries of SEA and e.g. organizes 2 or more workshops per year on related topics in the region, among these since 2000 a triennial "International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing" (HPSC) in Hanoi, the next to be held March 2 - 6, 2009. - ICM: the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling of the University of Warsaw (Director: Prof. Dr. Marek Niezgodka), a centre of similar scope as IWR, founded in the mid 90's. Both institutes have a long record of successful collaboration, e.g., a joint doctoral program "Complex Processes: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization" since 2001. - Other European institutions with a similar mission, e.g., at Jyväskylä, Milano, Linz, Lyngby, etc. would be invited to join in. On the SEA side, several universities, research organizations and their institutes would be project partners. They are connected to IWR and each other through networking activities in SEA during the past 10 years. - Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and its newly founded IT Centre (Director: Prof. Phal Des) - Hanoi: Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing of the Institute of Mathematics (Head: Prof. Dr. Hoang Xuan Phu), and the University of Science, Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC, Director: Prof. Dr. Pham Ky Anh) - Ho Chi Minh City: University of Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering (Dean: Prof. Dr. Thoai Nam), and the newly founded Institute of Computational Science and Technology (ICST, Director: Prof. Dr. Le Thi Minh Nghia) - Yangon University, Myanmar, Faculty of Science (Dean: Prof. Dr. Zaw Win). After a first one-week Workshop of Computational Science with 15 participants from Europe, Vietnam and Thailand and about 40 from Myanmar, 24 of which presented their research in CSE, a substantial group to form the nucleus of a CSE initiative in the country is available. - Vientiane: National University of Laos, Faculty of Science (Dean: Prof. Dr. Somkiat Phasy). - Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Science and its Advanced Virtual and Intelligent Computing Center (AVIC, Director: Prof. Dr. Chidchanok Lursinsap)


Of course, this list is preliminary and includes only institutions with which close collaborations in the subject area already have been developed. The network should be extended to also include institutions like, e.g., AIT, NUS and Nanyang TU institutes. Indeed, any other SEA institute or centre with a similar scope or mission would be most welcome to join the activities.


The networking activities presently receive moderate funding from various granting sources that basically allows us to organize schools, workshops and conferences, and to finance exchange of personnel on several levels. Since most of these sources have time limits and different restrictions in terms of usability, any longer term funding would be very welcome, in particular those that would allow more activities of an "institution building" nature. However, apart from any funding considerations, since network building in a strategically important special section of ICT is at the very core of the proposed project, it is expected that already the inclusion of our initiative in the SEACOOP project would in itself be a strong support for the described project.


43 NEO – SOUTHEAST ASIA NEO (NETWORK FOR EXCHANGE AND COOPERATION OPPORTUNITIES)

Gregory Lopez - THALES Open Source Department Manager International R&D Manager [email protected] +336 7966 0326


NEO is an FP7 project which will be submitted for the Call3. It proposes a structured approach to promote the exchanges of information on practices, laws, regulations & programmes relevant to cooperation under the European programme as well as promoting national developments. NEO-Southeast Asia is focusing on a specific region. NEO – Southeast Asia supports the goals of the International Cooperation: . By leveraging on tangible cooperation opportunities related to NESSI and QualiPSo, two key European initiatives for the software economy which provide and open collaboration framework on transnational technologies that can greatly benefit from global synergies and adoption, . By developing strategic partnerships between Southeast Asia and European Industries and Research Institutes. NESSI focuses on defining a common vision and research priorities supporting the delivery of open, standard, interoperable, safe and secure services environments. This service oriented approach has an enormous impact on the creation and distribution of software worldwide, while at the same time opening opportunities for unprecedented levels of collaboration between companies using such an approach. The participative model is open and relies on the NESSI Working Groups of which 10 are currently in operation. These working groups are the place where participants of all types unite to create research areas, joint projects and analyse existing results for future integration QualiPSo focuses on open source which is, by nature, transnational and it reaches full potentials when the participating organisations are maximised, in view of global adoption (country-wise, discipline-wise, as well as industry-wise). Thus allowing global cooperation is essential to boost the adoption of the technology for successful user applications. QualiPSo community and network of competence centres are open to any candidates and synergies with national initiatives.

To initiate the promotion and collaboration with new partners outside Europe, NEO Southeast Asia will adopt a step wise approach which shall: . Identify all the existing on-going efforts that are relevant to NESSI’s and QualiPSo scope; . Establish links with members of such initiatives and national clusters; . Move from links to active involvement of these members through either related Working Groups and/or events. In particular the project will: . Leverage a practical framework nurtured by the QualiPSo project, a FP6 project focusing on bringing trust in Open Source by implementing a quality approach. . Use concrete research outputs from NESSI, and the NESSI Open Source Working Group as tools to federate European Open Source stakeholders. Disseminate NESSI outcomes to the targeted countries and take benefits of their contributions. This NESSI Open Source Working Group will create a bridge between NESSI and the Open source communities (and vice versa), and will support a horizontal and common vision with all the different NESSI WG.


The main objectives of NEO are:

1. To explore new opportunities of collaboration on common research programs related to open source and so-called Service-oriented infrastructures. 2. Maintaining the dynamics of the European programme awareness activity, ensuring that cooperation opportunities within NESSI and QualiPSo are known and increasing international projects rate 3. To promote cross-fertilisation between projects in EU and National projects and clusters in the targeted countries. 4. To execute, an appropriate communication scheme, helping mutual understanding and the establishment of tangible partnerships. 5. Contributing towards convergence of IST research priorities;


We do consider this project as strategic because it fosters collaboration on tangible project (QualiPSo) and European program (NESSI). We have chosen the Open Source technology to also promote technological independence and international and distributive collaboration.


National Technicalk clusters Open Source communities Any ICT player


Helping in setting up some conference in southeast Asia for us to promote this project.


44 NEMESIS

Piotr Wiench, Ph, D, assistant professor Department of Humanities, Warsaw University of Life Sciences Nowoursynowska 166, Warsaw, Poland [email protected]


The project is to restore balance in cooperation in the ICT between SEA region and the New Member States (hence the acronym NEw MEmber States Information and communication technologieS)

The purpose of the project is to unveil the latent potential of cooperation in the ICT sphere, especially in the countries isolated from the external technological cooperation due to the cold war and post-cold war economic recovery. NMSs like Poland that over recent years became important manufacturing base for partners from SEA region (Poland as biggest European LCD TV producer as a result of SEA countries investments), with many instances of burgeoning spin-offs that developed advanced products (in the case of Poland mobile telephony software and set-top boxes), which may be attractive for the SEA region partners. The existing cooperation frameworks don’t reflect this potential and projects supporting NMS external cooperation might have significant effects contributing to the emergence of new partnerships based on complementary, synergetic characteristics of partners from the NMS and SEA region.


The project may contribute to balanced cooperation structure between both areas of the globe thus creating longer value chains and boosting the flow of innovation


The target partners are Chambers of Information Technology and Telecommunications, ICT NCPs from NMS, major ICT companies and research institutes/universities from SEA region and NMS, special economic zones, technology parks;


The SEACOOP project might either organize a series of seminars, conferences and study visits to support the cooperation or help to prepare a separate FP7 project aiming at enhancing cooperation between NMS and SEA.


45 GLOBALFUN GLOBALIZATION IN SMES: COOPERATION ROADMAP AND EXPLOITATION OF FUNSTEP RESEARCH ON OPEN STANDARDS AND SERVICES

Name: María José Núñez Ariño e-mail: [email protected] fax: +34 96 136 6185


GlobalFun will identify opportunities and develop strategic cooperation between EU and Southeast Asia (SA) in the area of interoperability of ICT systems for SMEs, identifying, promoting, and supporting strategic cooperation opportunities of mutual interest, and multilateral dialogues. The project is grounded on eight EU funded referential projects developed during the last decade that resulted in the established funStep Community (www.funstep.org), today with almost 700 members from 23 different countries, mainly SMEs from the European region. funStep was awarded by IMS (www.ims.org) in 2007, due to the recogniozed excellent results of its impact on international cooperation. GlobalFun aims to identify common needs, motivations and opportunities to deliver low-cost approaches that enable interoperability on SME-based environments. The project will offer guidance to technology convergence and exploitation making ICT available to anyone at anytime and anywhere through cooperative take up of available R&D results in leading players in EU and SA. Outlook and outreach activities, e.g., through workshops/seminars, will provide appropriate awareness about the existing on going research, in order to develop a cooperation roadmap for the exploitation and adaptation of funStep research on open standards and services, thus developing synergies with national, regional and international programmes and initiatives similarly addressing EU-Southeast Asia S&T cooperation on ICT. These activities will also result in the expansion of the European funStep community, harvesting abroad the funStep ISO standards, framework and open-source services. This enlargement will cover SME based industrial sectors, using as a referential basis the furniture sector. The GlobalFun Roadmap will provide guidance for future strategic cooperation with European-SA SME-related stakeholders. Nevertheless, SA will be the trigger for future expansions of funStep in other world regions, e.g. ACP, or Latin America. The project results will contribute to the i2010 objectives, by paving the way for developing countries SME’s to uptake and engage current and emerging R&D activities and programmes, which SA is a promising region.


Nowadays many stakeholders believe that Enterprise Interoperability is an area where research can lead to outstanding results in terms of innovation, leading to economic growth and employment. However, “…the gap between the EU and its key competitors has not diminished in most information and communication technologies. Now more than ever all means have to be mobilized for reversing the trend…” . “… Researchers and scientists in this area still need to define innovative concepts, need to develop synergies, and need to share ideas among themselves…” . In her speech "i2010, EU Commissioner Viviane Reading: The European Commission’s new programme to boost competitiveness in the ICT sector" during the Microsoft’s Government Leaders Forum (Prague, 31 January 2005), whilst Commissioner Reading explained what the ‘i’ in i2010 stands for, mentioned: “… ‘i’ is for innovation and investment in ICT... we have to find ways to promote effective adoption of ICT in firms of all sizes. I am looking at actions to stimulate the effective take-up by smaller firms.” This is a major driver for the GlobalFun project.


Innovation Innovation is defined in the document Innovation policy: updating the Union’s approach in the context of the Lisbon strategy COM (2003) 112 final as “the successful production, assimilation and exploitation of novelty in the economic and social spheres”. The Green Paper on Innovation COM(95)688 gives a more detailed definition: “Innovation is the renewal and enlargement of the range of products and services and the associated markets; the establishment of new methods of production, supply and distribution; the introduction of changes in management, work organization, and the working conditions and skills of the workforce.” Innovation can be obtained in different ways. Inventions as such, or taking ideas from other sectors and adapting them to the business process. Collaboration is a key factor in the exchange of ideas from different sectors to improve the efficiency of the business relationships.. It is necessary to make SMEs more open minded. Make them discover that ICT research is one way to increase their competitiveness and that exploiting the cooperation is a way of income. Adopting new ways of work and best practices makes them be alive in the knowledge-base economy and in this new knowledge-driven economy where markets become more global and have new competitors, product life cycles shorten, customers demand more and more and the technology is becoming more complex everyday. There are new challenges of business that must be faced up and industry companies must be aware and prepared to it. Knowledge is now a more tangible asset that can be acquired in never thought ways and that can reach unforeseen levels. The advances reached in IT have reduced the cost of knowledge gathering and knowledge transfer. Consequently the connectivity between the knowledge agents has increased in a spectacular way. But the traditional industry is still waking up in some aspects and that is why the funStep community wants to enter in the core of the traditional industry to demonstrate that cooperation at global level is possible and that it is not only something the big companies can do. The traditional industry both in Europe and Southeast Asia have the possibility of improving its competitiveness by doing research, improving their development, finding new ways of processing and producing, implementing and/or adapting existing technologies that help them to be more competitive. Effective take-up by smaller firms In SME-based environments as furniture sector, companies need to focus on their core competencies by improving their relationships to customers, streamline their supply chains, and collaborate with partners to create valued networks between buyer, vendor and supplier. At present, each PLM (Product Life Cycle Management) market solution proposes it’s integrating “reference frameworks” for connecting tools and environments in a “point-to-point” collaborative private arena. On the contrary, there is a general deficiency of “open” integration: the existing PLM suites can’t be really connected and, therefore, the adoption of the PLM paradigm is reduced to one IT “trust” choice, and after taking it, the enterprise is “obligated” to life with it and by it. Companies need to produce complex products in less time and at lower costs. New business characteristics arise: business needs to be responsive, meaning that it must act on time; be adaptable and reorganized to meet environmental changes; focused on the objective and tasks to deliver; and resilient on pursuing better solutions. Alone, businesses can no longer provide the maximum value for many of today’s demanding customers. Therefore and knowing that most of the furniture related companies are heterogeneous, they must work closely together in order to produce an integrated product or service. This relationship is to be long-term based and persistent. The interactions between the European and South-eastern furniture organizations could lead to major developments in the global market, enlarging the impact of common research and facing uprising markets such as the Chinese.


The consortium would be composed by small, although skilled, set of industrial and RTD organizations that will act as coordinating nodes for the EU and Southeast Asia activities, embracing as a network the SA organizations.


Foreseen project nodes are: . AIDIMA (ES), Technological center for furniture – coordinator of funStep . UNINOVA (PT), RTD with expertise on roadmapping and outreach activities . UEA (BE), European Furniture Manufacturers Federation . FEDERMOBILI (IT), Federation of Furniture Manufacturers in Italy . DESIGNMARKET.COM (SE), major e-marketplace for furniture business . Singapore Furniture Industries Council (Singapore) . Malaysian Furniture Industries Council (Malaysia) NOTE: Through UEA, Designmarket, and the Singapore/Malaysian Furniture Industries Council we will establish the foundations for the SA network, connecting with the major furniture organizations in Europe and SA.


SEACOOP could promote the S&T cooperation on ICT between Europe and Southeast Asia, focused on SMEs based activities, financing and supporting bilaterally the GlobalFun initiative that will bring new value involving SMEs participation in information and technology transfer seminars and workshops with the intention to promote ICT research activities. The roadmap would harvest European-SA cooperation and joint initiatives in a short/medium future.


46 WEB HOSTING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MR. PHATTARAPOL KIRATISIN 561 SATHON TAI RD. SATHON BANGKOK, THAILAND 10500 [email protected] +66-86-515-2342 +66-2-675-6672


Develop user-friendly web hosting management software that suits for end-users Why is the project of strategic and mutual interest to Europe and Southeast Asia?

As almost all major hosting management software is developed in US, most of the functions are not really built to ease end-users with totally different needs, and in the SE Asia case with much lower technical knowledge. There should be hosting management software that suits little-to-medium technical knowledge in order to encourage many more people to have web sites of their own. We have experiences over 6 years in web hosting business in Thailand, so we understand the nature of customers very well. We are confident that we can build software that really meets Asian users’ needs.


Global ICT (Thailand) Co., Ltd. What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

1. Research study on European web hosting customers 2. Funding: €35,000 (approx. 8 months)


48 SECURITY ISSUES IN SENSOR NETWORKS AND RFID

Aldar C-F. Chan NUS School of Computing Email: [email protected]


The main objective is to design and analyse lightweight cryptographic protocols suitable/usable for the resource-limited devices in sensor networks and RFID systems.


Sensor networks and RFID are emerging technologies to appear in many application spheres such as wide-life monitoring, natural disaster alerting, road safety, identity authentication, etc.. Nevertheless, without taking proper security into design and considerations, these technologies would not be usable. The project will address security and privacy issues arising in different application scenarios.


INRIA What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

Funding to support conference trip, collaborator visits, and the purchase of equipment.


49 3D IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR DEGRADED IMAGES

PROF. DR. BENYAMIN KUSUMOPUTRO COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA Contact person: Bobby Nazief [email protected]


To develop an automatic 3D image recognition system for degraded images, such those generated/produced under noisy environments, blurred images due to moving objects, or taken from a sequence of video images.


The technique may support weather/climate studies that make use of satellite imagery or may be used as one of the tools in solving terrorism crimes. These two are two of global problems faced by every country in the world.


Bilkent University, Turkey (or other partners within Muscle NOE) Nagoya University, Japan


Bringing in more potential project partners, not just from Europe, but also from Asia.


50 SYSTEM ON CHIP DESIGN OF BASEBAND DIGITAL TV FOR INDONESIA

Dr. Trio Adiono ST. MT. Microelectronic Centre Institut Teknologi Bandung PAU Building 4th floor Jl. Ganesha no 10 Bandung Phone: +62-22-2506280 Fax: +62-22-2508763 Email: [email protected]


The objective of this project is to develop baseband component of Integrated Circuit digital television for specific application in Indonesia. This IC adopted ETSI EN 300 744 V1.5.1 standard which is a European standard of DVB-T.


(1) Indonesia has analog television system with 1 national television, 10 private televisions, and some local television. This condition makes high density of frequency allocation and difficulties for adding new analog television transmission. By applying digital television system, those kinds of problems can be avoided and frequency allocation utilization can be more efficient. (2) Digital TV system in Indonesia adopts European standard, thus it is very appropriate that the partner of this project come from the European community. (3) Finding optimum DVB-T configuration for tropical area such as Indonesia.


(1) Other universities that have same research area that develop other parts of the digital TV system such Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, Radio Frequency (RF) and Intermediate Frequency (IF) part. (2) Other universities that have strong research in Digital TV Baseband modelling. (3) Industries that can develop this design in mass production and put it in the market.


(1) To help finding European partners that have a lot of knowledge in standard and technology in digital television, especially in DVB-T Technology. (2) To give access to some research facilities that might not be available in South East Asian countries.


51 INTEGRATED DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND PROCESSING FOR TSUNAMY

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

Dr. Mashury Wahab Research Centre for Electronics and Telecommunications of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PPET-LIPI) Jl. Sangkuriang, Building No. 20, 4th Floor Bandung, 40135 Tlp. +62-22-2504661, Fax. +62-22-2504659 Email: [email protected], [email protected]


1. Collecting a variety of data coming from multiple sensors such as buoy, tide gates and seismograph via data communications network. 2. Transferring data into a common format. 3. Data processing and data base construction. 4. Construct a decision support system for Tsunami Early Warning to Authorities.


Indonesia and some countries in Southeast Asia are prone to earthquakes because there are a lot of volcanoes and movements underneath slands in Southeast Asia. Some of these earthquakes introduce Tsunami. There were huge fatalities during Tsunami disaster in 2004 in Aceh Province. At the moment, there are a variety of sensors for earth quakes, tides and wave speed with different data formats. Some of these sensors do not provide real time data to the master station. In addition, at the moment, a dedicated data base for Tsunami Early Warning System is not yet available. Data processing should be done in a short time before a decision can be made if there is a Tsunami. The warning signals can be broadcasted or sent to local and national authorities. Europe has a lot of expertise and experts in building equipment for monitoring and predicting weather and earthquakes. European experts also have a lot of experience in data communication networks. It would be a challenging research project for European experts to help Indonesian experts building a real time data communication network considering Indonesian geographical condition and topography. Data bases for earth quakes with input in different data formats is also an interesting research. A decision support system also need to be constructed using the data bases.


1. Researchers from the Research centre for Electronics and Telecommunications of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. 2. Researchers from the Research centre for Informatics of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. 3. A Tsunami Expert from the Bandung Institute of Technology. 4. An expert from the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau.


The Seacoop project can provide funding for this project, experts to advise and help Indonesian experts, training and education to Indonesian experts, and also equipment for establishing a real time communications between the sensors such as tidal gate and buoy to the master station.


52 BUILDING DECISION SUPPORTING SYSTEMS (DSS) USING GIS AND REMOTE

SENSING

Huynh Van Chuong, PhD Faculty of Land Resources and Agricultural Environment. Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF), Vietnam. Tel: +84 54 516514, Fax: +84 54 524923 Email: [email protected] Website: www.huaf.edu.vn


1. To construct DSSs for water and land resources management and proper planning; environmental assessment and protection; risk and disaster management; and social and economic development. 2. To promote governmental agencies and other organizations to apply DDSs when making decisions related to their responsible areas 3. To educate, transfer and strengthen the capability for local agencies and staffs on GIS and Remote Sensing technologies. 4. To promote the establishment of GIS and Remote Sensing centre in Central Vietnam


- Exchange the experience in the field of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). - Buiding the readily-available DSS models supported by GIS and RS it could be applied both Europe and Southeast Asia countries. - Linking and networking of research organizations on GIS and RS both in Europe and Asia.


1. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. 2. University of Bonn, Germany 3. Ghent University, Belgium 4. International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Holland. 5. Okayama University, Japan


- Support fundings: (i) GIS and RS researches, consultation, training, and experience exchange workshops, (ii) the establishment of the Centre for GIS and Remote Sensing in Central Vietnam, (iii) higher education related to GIS and RS at one of project partners, and (iv) GIS and RS facilities and equipments. - Support the technologies and research capability in the field of GIS and RS - Support to link with European partners for FP7


53 PERSPECTIVE FINDER FOR BETTER ISLAM-WEST UNDERSTANDING

[email protected] [email protected]


Islam and the West relation can go to suspicious of each other, partly due to their ignorance of the opposing party's perspectives; and partly due to their inheritance of past prejudices toward the other. Some recent events – such as the 9/11 tragedy and the abuse of the Quran in the Guantanamo - have worsen the relationship. Mutual understanding has to be built by both parties. Many people have already contributed to such development. We believe that ICT can be utilized to bridge this cultural or idelogical divide among both parties by facilitating easy access and understanding to the opposing perspectives. There is already a lot of information written by people from both sides. This project aims to answer the problem of Islam-West relationship through information searching facilities, so when people search information about a matter related to Islam-West relationship, it will provide links to web sites from related sites from both Islamic and the West sides, and make a human friendly visual representation of the link to each perspective, in order to give more understanding the map of information. The links could be on-line news sites, in-depth articles written by scholars, or Wikipedia-type articles. So, it facilitates people who want to know the perspectives from both sides. For example, when you search information about Israel or Palestine, it will give links to information on why the West always support Israel, and why most Muslims seem no to willing to make peace with Israel. Or, if you search information related to 9/11, you will get links to conspiracy theories from both sides; or links to sites that give information on implication of that event on both sides. Web mining suppose an appropriate technology that enable these features. Since Muslim and the West don't only speak English, in order to make the system beneficial to wider public, it should have the capability to eliminate/minimize this language barrier in searching information. It also facilitates people to comments or discuss anything in the spirit of developing mutual understanding or eliminating misunderstanding. This project should also facilitate internet connection and encourage internet publishing of scholars idea in both Islam-West sides, especially Islamic scholars in SEA. Why is the project of strategic and mutual interest to Europe and Southeast Asia? Internet has the potential to bridge people from different cultures, religions, ideologies or whatever factors that can divide them. However, the large amount of information on the Net is too much to handle. Due to inability to apprehend the opposing information, opinions and values, some people then tend to limit themselves with the information that suit their prejudices. And so, instead of becoming a single village, the cyberspace has become fragmented world. Some people use the Net or any media to express their prejudice, but not willing to listen to any feedback that may correct their prejudices. This trend of course is not wished in the world where global cooperation is more needed than ever before. Therefore, we have to utilize the Internet to develop a world where its inhabitants are willing to understand or to listen to each other, not just to their own opinions.



We need two different types of partners: � Universities/research institutes that has experts or research interest in Web mining and Natural Language Processing. � A university that has interest in Muslim-West relationship research (for example ISIM in the Netherland; UIN Syarif Hidayatullah in Indonesia. Etc.)


SEACOOP project can support cooperation between us and those potential partners, and provide funding for the this research.


54 WEB-BASED CROSS-LANGUAGE ONTOLOGY SEARCH ENGINE FOR

MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS AT THE THEMATIC LEVEL

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Roslina Othman Faculty of Information and Communication Technology International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak 53100 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA Roslina Othman <[email protected]>


The objectives are to develop a search engine that generates ontology in real time in multiple languages at the thematic level for multimedia collections, to build features that enable cross-language searches and to cluster and map the ontology and their search results in multiple languages.


Generation of web-based ontology derived from knowledge, as another form of cultural heritage, captured in multimedia formats of different languages. Ontology would be made available as a knowledge map, and the knowledge upon retrieval would be mapped in accordance to their universal similarity. Thus what would be mapped is the knowledge produced in the world/region without language barriers. This project would open up other projects that would work on the machine translation of documents in European/Asian languages.


KnowledgeGrid Malaysia (MIMOS) AshTech Malaysia InTraCom GmbH


Links to or collaborations with Cross-language IR projects, e.g. TrebleClef and Multimatch projects Multimedia collections in several languages Funding


55 MULTIPLATFORM EARLY WARNING INFORMATION SYSTEM THROUGH DVB-T

AND GSM

DR. HARY BUDIARTO MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DIVISION THE CENTRE FOR INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY THE AGENCY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND APLLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY (BPPT) [email protected]


Television and Mobile Phone are the most potential equipments to accelerate the early warning information of such disasters as eartquakes, tsunami, flooding etc throughout the surrounding area that most potentially getting the worst impact. Indonesia and probably other South east Asia countries are often getting the disasters such above examples.


The biggest penetration ICT equipments in Southeast Asia are televisions and Mobile Phones. The Digital Terrestrial Television and the Digital Mobile Phone in South East Asia and Europe are using the same standard technologies. For the television both of them are using DVB-T standard. For mobile phone both of them are using GSM standard. The early warning information features for both at those equipments (DVB-T & GSM) has not implemented yet at this time.


DVB-T Broadcasting and GSM Mobile Phone Manufacturers such Rohde & Schwarz, Thales, Siemens, NOKIA etc or research intitutions in Europe.


Bringing the European partners to support these disasters management project to South East Asian Countries


56 REAL TIME NATURAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING PROJECTS

M.M. SARINANTO [email protected]


In the global climate change situation, natural environmental monitoring is common interest of all countries. Most of South East Asia countries has resources that play an important role in global climate. Therefore any change of them can impact global climate change. Although such situation, forrest illegal logging still occur in some countries in SEA. With such condition, it is very important to monitor environment changes in SEA, so political or real action can be performed directly related to any changes. Fortunately with the progress in information technology, it is not an impossible task to monitor a huge area of forest, to monitor pollution level in huge area, to monitor sea level increment in a very long coast etc. And also it is not an impossible task to collect ,and monitor all environment data in one centre and distribute it to several centres in a real time. This project is aimed to develop sensor networks that collect the natural environmental data and a center for center collection and monitor natural environmental data from SEA countries. Related technologies to this project are: sensor networks, infrastructures technologies, data ware house, distributed data, web services, data visualization, dss, environmental sensors and etc.


For European country as a part of global society, the information of environment changes in SEA is an important information, since changes in SEA environment will affect also European environment. Also many European industries involved in fields that may affect SEA natural environments. Knowing the information of natural enviromental data, will benefit SEA countries because they will know their environment data, also for European countries. European countries can also contribute their technology especially new technologies such sensor networks to the successful of this projects.


European Universities, Research institute and industries related to enviromental sensors, sensor network, web services, dss, infrastructures and etc. SEA universities, research institute related to enviromental sensors, sensor networks, data vizualization and etc.


Bringing the European partners to support these projects.


57 RFID SENSOR NETWORK FOR WILD LIFE PROTECTION

Md. Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz, D.Eng. Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering International Islamic University malaysia Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Phone: +603-61964435 Fax: +603-61964488 Email: [email protected] [email protected]


1. Protect wildlife. 2. Develop an efficient and long distant RFID sensor network. 3. Develop a real time pattern recognition algorithm. 4. Develop a attractive computer game for the cyber game keepers to protect the wildlife.


Protective wildlife is a worldwide concern and it is important strategically and at the same time it is a mutual interest for Europe and Southeast Asia to protect their wildlife.


1. Malaysia (International Islamic University Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) 2. Japan (Ibaraki University) 3. USA (Kent Sate University) 4. Europe (Need to be find out)


1. Financial support 2. Providing research expert support


58 A COMPLETE UHF RFID SYSTEM ON CMOS 0.18µM - PROCESS USING TECHNOLOGY FROM SILTERRA

Md. Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz, D.Eng. Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering International Islamic University malaysia Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Phone: +603-61964435 Fax: +603-61964488 Email: [email protected] [email protected]


1. Develop a UHF RFID Tag on CMOS 0.18µm. 2. Develop a UHF RFID Reader on CMOS 0.18µm. 3. Develop a complete UHF RFID system.


RFID is one of the most popular ways of identification today in this world. To make the RFID cost effective is one of the challenges for every one. Thus, developing a complete UHF RFID system with all positive features by the joint collaboration of the scientist from Europe and Southeast Asia is significant for both strategic and of mutual interest.


1. Malaysia (International Islamic University Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Multimedia University) 2. Europe (Need to be find out)




59 A VIRTUAL, PERSONALIZED, UBIQUITOUS AND CONTEXT – AWARE FRAMEWORK FOR

HEALTHCARE SERVICES

Ong Hang See, Ph. D. Associate Professor Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Km 7, Jalan Kajang-Puchong 43009 Kajang, Selangor Malaysia Phone: +603-89212339 Fax: +603-689212116 Email: [email protected] [email protected]


1. To improve quality of life especially for the elderly, unhealthy and disable person. 2. To produce a framework and architecture for an ICT based healthcare service environment. 3. To construct instrumentation and protocol for health monitoring. 4. To develop software and API for context-aware and ubiquitous virtual healthcare services


In general, both communities are facing an increase of aging population. A mutual development will bridge the different culture approach to achieve a single goal of achieving healthy live with the aid of information, communication and computing technologies.


1. Malaysia (University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), International Islamic University Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) 3. USA (University of Minnesota) 4. Europe (Need to be find out)




60 A VALUE-BASED RURAL COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK FOR BRIDGING THE

DIGITAL DIVIDE

Zulkhairi M. Dahalin, PhD Assoc Professor of IT Director, Northern Corridor Economic Region Research Centre (NCER-RC) Universiti Utara Malaysia MALAYSIA [email protected]


1) To assess the effectiveness of current universal service provision implementation in bridging the digital divide 2) To report on the extend of broadband penetration and requirements in rural and underserved areas 3) To establish a value-based community framework focused on knowledge, empowerment and sustenance using selected communities as pilot sites


Digital divide is a universal issue faced by countries in Southeast Asia and parts of Europe. It is a worrying trend that the digital gap is ever widening, which can affect the social and economic wellbeing of developing and third world countries. World Bank (2003) reported that digital divide is a major obstacle to development, whereas a UNDP study (2006) found a high correlation between human development index (HDI) and internet penetration. Recently UNCTAD (2007) reported that broadband is a vital tool for economic development and it should be considered a utility comparable to water and electricity. With just 3% broadband penetration rate for developing countries compared to 28% for developed countries expected in 2008, the issue of digital divide will remain unless there is sustained support from international community. This project is an effort to address the BDD issue and the partnership between Europe and Southeast Asia for research and development in bridging the digital gap would support the needs of the international community.


Two public universities – Universiti Utara Malaysia as a centre of excellent in ICT in rural development; and National University of Malaysia as a centre of excellent in e-Community. We’ve submitted to SEACOOP to seek for potential collaborator(s).


1) Recommend suitable collaborator(s) from the EU community. 2) Suggest partners from other Southeast Asia countries. 3) Recommend proposal to be included in the 2008 Euro-Southeast Asia Cooperation Forum on ICT Research to be held in Brussels in October 2008. 4) Recommend for inclusion in the FP7 call 5) Other advice relevant to the proposal


61 REMOTE TACTILE SENSING

ECE DEPT., DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - MANILA RODRIGO S. JAMISOLA, JR. ASST. PROFESSOR 2401 TAFT AVE., 1004 MANILA [email protected] (02) 524-4611 LOCAL 224


1. To successfully transmit touch sensation across computers. 2. To mathematically model the touch sensation from the data acquired through the touch sensor to be used in virtual environments. 3. To provide additional sensing data for such applications as remote surgery, remote object manipulation in outer space or under water explorations, and other remote applications.


The project, if successful, will help advance the world's technology including Europe and Southeast Asia. The possible applications will help create a more realistic presence in remote environments.

Who would be the project partners in Europe and Southeast Asia?

N/A How can SEACOOP support the project?

SEACOOP can support this project through funding and publication. 1. Funding a) For purchasing more precise equipments to replace the existing less accurate ones b) To provide man-hours for the project to keep on going 2. Publication a) To find venues that will help create awareness of the project b) To establish links in academe, business, and community


62 COCONUT-CLIMBING ROBOT

ECE DEPT., DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - MANILA RODRIGO S. JAMISOLA, JR. ASST. PROFESSOR 2401 TAFT AVE., 1004 MANILA [email protected] (02) 524-4611 LOCAL 224


1. To investigate and build a coconut-climbing robot 2. To be able to address climbing task in similar structures as lamp posts, erect pipes, etc. 3. To be able to build a foundation for a remote manipulation of harvesting coconuts, once the robot successfully reached the top of the coconut. 4. To locally develop a technology that addresses local issue as automation in coconut processing techniques.


Coconuts are nature's richest grocery stores. It abundant of many healthful elements, including the recently sought-after virgin coconut oil, and the coconut sugar. However, many coconut trees have become very tall, and harvesting the coconuts becomes a dangerous task. Once robotization/automation of coconut processing can be introduced, production of the coconut health products can increase and their health benefits can be used in Europe and the rest of the world.


“Need help on contacting partners” How can SEACOOP support the project?

SEACOOP can support this project through funding and publication. 1. Funding a) To provide man-hours to hire graduate students to work on the project b) To design and build the actual coconut-climbing robot c) Computers and software to control the robot 2. Publication a) To find venues that will help create awareness of the project b) To establish links in academe, business, and community Note: Please take a look at the Prof. Jamisola's on-line Virgin Coconut Oil website at www.jamisola.com


63 STUDY ON ROBOTIZATION/AUTOMATION OF RICE PRODUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINES

ECE DEPT., DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - MANILA RODRIGO S. JAMISOLA, JR. ASST. PROFESSOR 2401 TAFT AVE., 1004 MANILA [email protected], [email protected] (02) 524-4611 LOCAL 224


1. To conduct a study on the current status of rice production in the Philippines 2. To identify key processes where robotization/automation can possibly be implemented to increase rice production 3. To interact with rice farmers in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and East Asia and learn the “wish list” of rice production. 4. To learn and share methods and strategies of other rice producing countries


Staple food production is crucial to the world's population. As demands of food increase and agricultural areas are reduced, the need to be more efficient in food production is needed. Rice production in the Philippines employs many primitive methods that have long been outdated, and were never improved. It is the main purpose of this study to identify key areas that urgently need mechanization.


“Need help on contacting partners”

How can SEACOOP support the project?

SEACOOP can support this project through funding and publication. 1. Funding a) To provide man-hours to hire graduate students to work on the project b) To provide traveling allowance to visit local farmers and farming areas in the Philippines and around Southeast Asia and East Asia. 2. Publication a) To find venues that will help create awareness of the project b) To establish links in academe, business, and community


64 EURASIAN WORDNET

VIRACH SORNLERTLAMVANICH NECTEC/NSTDA, THAILAND [email protected]


1. Development of conceptual terminology for Asian languages based on the widely used opensource WordNet. 2. Bring together the conceptual link between European languages and Asian languages for better intercultural understanding and being a platform for information interchange industry. 3. Standardization of terminology to improve the efficiency in development of information infrastructure for European and Asian information industry.


1. Euro WordNet had been developed and cultivated for several languages i.e. French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and many others. However, those are not all open and interoperable. This initiative will not only to promote the development of WordNet for Asian languages but also to compile the Euro WordNet for open standard and open access. 2. The project needs collaborative works from participating members. It is an open platform that needs expertise from both Europe and Southeast Asia. 3. The conceptual terminology can help globalizing the information industry both parties.


1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany 2. The Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR (ILC-CNR), Italy 3. Toulouse-Le Mirail University, France 4. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC/NSTDA), Thailand 5. Myanmar Computer Federation (MCF), Myanmar 6. Science Technology and Environment Agency (STEA), Laos 7. Assessment and Application of Technology Agency (BPPT), Indonesia 8. De La Salle University (DLSU), Philippines


1. Financial support for workshops, meetings 2. Financial support for database server and collaborative platform for online collaborative work 3. Establishment of framework for resource sharing and contribution from European partners 4. Promotion of the use of result in information industrial development


65 DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SPEED QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY

Dr. Keattisak Sripimanwat ([email protected]) Optical & Quantum Communications Lab. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) 112 Thailand Science Park, Phahon Yothin Rd., Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120


− To promote R&D collaboration of EU & ASEAN (Thailand and may be with Malaysia) − To develop next generation of quantum cryptography based on high speed secret key distribution for secure communication networks − To establish quantum cryptography testbed for developing high speed quantum key distribution protocol − To pursue one of the world’s technology trend (quantum cryptography) through the new information era (quantum information)


There are related projects that are currently implemented by both EU and ASEAN countries. Collaboration for combining and reinforcing expertise of each countries of both sides will drive to create the new result of higher speed quantum cryptography with strong impacts towards both regions.


1. SECOQC: Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography. <www.secoqc.net> (EU-FP6 program) 2. ID Quantique, Switzerland <http://www.idquantique.com> 3. NECTEC, Thailand <www.nectec.or.th> 4. MIMOS, Malaysia <www.mimos.my>


− To set up an official linkage for those parties − To support for initiative projects under the future collaborations − To provide financial support and to organize for the meeting / seminars


66 EURASIAN DIGITAL HERITAGE

VIRACH SORNLERTLAMVANICH NECTEC/NSTDA, THAILAND [email protected]


1. Development of digitization processes for specific domains to leverage the efficiency in creating digital contents. 2. Standardization for digital content and service interoperability. 3. Development of digital heritage for preserving and promoting its existence. 4. Development and sharing technology for accumulation, analysis, access, and service.


1. Digital heritage is an essential in the modern age to preserve the uniqueness of the region and to promote the intercultural understanding. 2. Both parties realize the richness of culture of each other. 3.Technology for archiving the digital contents requires expertise from both parties. It is interchangeable and sharable.


1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany 2. The Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR (ILC-CNR), Italy 3. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC/NSTDA), Thailand


1. Financial support for workshops, meetings 2. Financial support for database server and collaborative platform for online collaborative work 3. Establishment of framework for resource sharing and contribution from European partners 4. Promotion of the use of result in information industrial development


67 SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS USING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY

De La Salle University Manila Aaron Don M. Africa Position: Assistant Professor 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines [email protected] 5244611 / 4970696 / 09294540238


It is now the time of globalization and International integration. The people of the world are now unified in a single society and functioning together. The advancement of technology made this possible. Information travels faster today than the previous era in human history. Businesses, Private organizations and individuals need Information Technology to accomplish their task efficiently. A major obstacle in the use of modern technology is the cost of the software. Licenses from these products can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Open source Technology refers to software that is distributed with its source code so that end user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open source licenses allow the software to be redistributed without restriction under the same terms of the license. This type of technology is inexpensive and almost free. A drawback with Open Source is they might not be of high quality compared to Commercial products. Their features may not be that competitive. There are many Open Source projects that exist in the World Wide Web ranging from word processors to E-commerce systems. Combining the code and features of certain projects can compensate for the weakness of the Open Source program This research is about the improvement of Open Systems prioritizing in the field of Electronic Commerce, Call Center Industry, Education, Healthcare and other service oriented fields. With the help of our Project partners we will evaluate different Open Source Projects and create ideal combinations which are competitive with commercial software and following international standards like ISO 9126.


The significance of this Project is to show that developing high quality Open Systems can be achieved. This type of technology is almost free and inexpensive. Producing Open Systems that is affordable yet state-of-the-art will help small companies especially in developing countries who do not have enough capital to take advantage of globalization. Having these systems integrated in their business will help them improve the efficiency of their workforce and expand their market not only reaching local but also clients in Europe, United States and other parts of the globe.


HEWLETT-PACKARD need help with contacting partner International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) need help with contacting partner Siemens need help with contacting partner Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) Being Established

How can SEACOOP support the project?

SEACOPP can support the project by helping us increase the awareness on Open Source Technology. Many Businesses, Private organizations and individuals do not even know that free software exist. Thus they continue to rely on commercial software and sometimes financial inadequacy prevents them from expanding their means.


68 MICROCONTROLLER-BASED HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TELEMEDICINE APPLICATION

De La Salle University – Manila Engr. Analene Montesines-Nagayo Position: _Assistant Professor 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila [email protected] 524-46-11 local 565/224


The objectives of the proposed project are as follows: (a) To design and construct a microcontroller-based health monitoring system (MHMS) that will acquire various physiological parameters from a patient such as patient’s oxygen saturation level, body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and ECG. (b) To utilize a USB interface that will transfer the outputs of the MHMS to the computer for data logging using a suitable database format. (c) To create a database that will handle medical information, such as patients’ medical history, medical data accessed from the MHMS, updated diagnosis, medical prescriptions and list of authorized users who can access the TeleMedicine Informatiion System (TMIS).


This ICT for health project aims to provide health care service in different countries by maximize the usage of information technology in the field of medicine. It also builds research collaboration between Southeast Asian and European countries in the field of biomedical informatics and Instrumentation.


Need help in contacting partners How can SEACOOP support the project?

The SEACOOP can support the project by providing funding for the acquisition of materials, sensors and equipment needed in the project.


70 RUBBER AND PALM OIL ORCHARD MONITORING USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Wannarat Suntiamorntut, Ph.D., Department of Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Prince of Songkla University Hatyai, Songkhla Thailand 90112 Tel. 66-74-287354 Fax. 66-74-287076 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]


- To gather all necessary data such as temperature, humidity, soil and so on of the rubber and palm oil by using wireless sensor networks and send these back to scientist for a further analysis


This will help Thailand to increase the productivity of rubber and palm oil so that we can provide raw materials to EU countries. Rubber is very useful for making tire and palm oil is another important raw meterial for doing renewable energy


- need assistance from SEACOOP to find potential partners What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

− funding − transfer of sensor technology − finding potential partner


71 LOW POWER EMBEDDED IMAGE SENSOR NODE

Wannarat Suntiamorntut, Ph.D., Department of Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Prince of Songkla University Hatyai, Songkhla Thailand 90112 Tel. 66-74-287354 Fax. 66-74-287076 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]


To build an image sensor node for monitoring, capturing and computing all neccessary image processing using a low power consumption.


This sensor node can be widely applied to security, argiculture, disaster warning applications which are very useful for countries both in EU and Southeast Asia while it consumes low power and saves energy.


- need assistance from SEACOOP to find potential partners What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

− funding − technology transfer − finding potential partners


72 BROADBAND INVESTMENT POLICY REPORT

CRAIG WARREN SMITH PhD IGADD Co-Chairman Senior Adviser Human Interface Technology Laboratory University of Washington USA mobile phone: 206 245 9970 [email protected]


To generate a report that proposes an investment policy for the Indonesian government. Its purpose is to elicit investments needed for widespread deployment of “meaningful broadband” for 20% of the Indonesian population by the year 2012.


This is the role of “Development Finance” Institutions in supporting public-private partnerships in broadband. Indonesia is by far Southeast Asia’s largest recipient of development assistance. Collaboration of aid agencies in support of ICT infrastructures is already a well-established trend. In an initiative called Connect Africa, some of the world’s major intergovernmental agencies recently established a $55 billion commitment for mobile phone infrastructure in Africa, sets a precedent for what could happen in Indonesia.


Department of Communications and Informatics Republic of Indonesia, The Habibie Center, Digital Divide.org, Institute Technology of Bandung, Rector Forum Indonesia, The Indonesian Infocom Society, BPPT. European Partners

What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described

Indonesia needs a broadband ecosystem that is usable, affordable and empowering. The presence of broadband will automatically stimulate additional investments, and further investments must be mobilized so that new products and services emerge in alignment with the emergence of new modes of broadband connectivity. SEACOOP could transfer best practices from other markets to Indonesia, and help us mobilize additional investment on top of expected investment through the normal play of market forces.


73 AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION FOR SEA'S WORLD HERITAGE DIGITAL ARCHIVE

Muhammad Arief Indonesia [email protected]


South East Asia has several worldly known world heritage such Borobudur in Indonesia, and Ankor Wat in Cambodia. However this world heritage may not known by many people in the world. On the other hand augmented Reality (AR) is a growing area in virtual reality research. An augmented reality system generates a composite view for the user. It combines the real scene viewed by the user and a virtual scene generated by the computer that augments the scene with additional information. The ultimate goal of augmented reality application is to create a system such that the user can not tell the difference between the real world and the virtual augmentation of it. The implementation of the augmented reality technology into networked digital archive of world heritages would be very useful, since a lot of people people around the world may learn these heritages on the net. The objects can also be extended to other heritage which not classified as world heritage, or even to tourist site.

Why is the project of strategic and mutual interest to Europe and Southeast Asia? South East Asia (SEA) is one of the main tourist and business destination for European. Every year, hundreds of thousand people from European countries visit SEA tourist destinations such as Bali, Borobudur, West Sumatra, Cambodia, Malaysia etc, or for business purpose. Therefore the understanding of SEA culture is an important point for European. One way to understand SEA culture is through the its heritage. By creating a digital archive of SEA heritages and connecting them to internet, people can learn more on SEA culture. Augmented reality will enhanced the digital archive to a more realistic view, so users can experience more. The european partners can contribute to basic technology and materials, while SEA partners will contribute in content, and creative technology. The benefit of this project can be enhanced also, if heritages in Europe also created and connected to this network. Who would be the project partners?

Potential partners: Department of Cybernetics, Reading University (WAAR: Wide Area Augmented Reality). European Computer Research Center and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Fraunhofer Project Group for Augmented Reality). Delft University of Technology (UbiCom Project). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki BPPT (Indonesia) SEA Partners


Promote the projects to potential partners in Europe and SEA.


74 COMPUTER SIMULATION OF BIOMATERIALS FOR VESICLES FORMULATIONS

Professor Rauzah Hashim University of Malaysia


Investigation on the structure property relationship of new biomaterials and membrane functions by theory, modelling and simulation


To improve formulation and target functional in drugs and other delivery systems Who would be the project partners?

University of Manchester, University of Southampton and Royal Society of Chemistry What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

More fund to cover network and exchange program and complementing the FP7 “In Formulation” Proposal.


75 DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY FOR ORANG ASLI TO BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE DURING THE DEVELOPMENT REGION OF WILAYAH PEMBANGUNAN ISKANDAR (WPI)

Rosziati Ibrahim Research Management and Innovation Center (RMIC), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, 86400, Johor. Email: [email protected]


i) To investigate the needs of Orang Asli at Nusajaya area due to impact of the development region of WPI ii) To determine the opportunities of Orang Asli for economic development and their literacy level for education iii) To develop a Knowledge-based Society by using ICTs as the solution for economic development and education of these Orang Asli for bridging the digital divide


Activities involved in developing WPI will impact the people living within the region of Nusantara. No doubt, there is a huge gap between the traditional living of orang asli with modern living of people at Johor Bahru. The project aims to address this gap in term of ICT solution. As a community-based project, it would be interesting to see the ICT solution for the community (orang asli) for education, economic development and civic minded. Hence, the outcome would be of interest to Europe and Southeast Asia.


IRDA (Iskandar Regional Development Authority) - IRDA is the authority to steer the planning, promoting, facilitating and undertaking development of WPI. We will work with IRDA to develop a knowledge-based society for these orang asli.


1. Funded the project for setting up the training centre at the village of orang asli. 2. Funded the project for side visit and fieldwork. 3. Collaborate in term of consultation and advices.


76 HEALTHCARE DATABASE: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, 3D BODY MEASUREMENTS, AND BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS

Piyawut Srichaikul, Ph.D. Manager of Knowledge Engineering Technology Program National Electronics and Computer Technology Center National Science and Technology Development Agency Ministry of Science and Technology Bangkok, Thailand. <piyawut [email protected]>


I. To develop the healthcare database including data from physical examinition, 3D body scanner, and body composition monitor of European and SE Asian people for research purposes. II. To develop the low-cost, consumer-oriented 3D body scanner. III. To research on healthcare analysis to find associations between data from physical examination, 3D body scanner and body composition monitor. Why is the project of strategic and mutual interest to Europe and Southeast Asia? I. Healthcare is the main strategic for every country in the world. Since UK has developed SizeUK, France has developed SizeFrance, and Thailand has also developed SizeThailand with 3D body scanner. Some preliminary studies have shown relationship between data from 3D body scanner with individual diseases. With the purposed database, the prediction of disease of each individual may be possible without the physical check-up program from the hospital. II. The 3D body scanner’s cost around the world is still high. If the development of low-cost, consumer-oriented 3D body scanner is success, the scanning data can be obtained easier. More data can be collected into the database. More researches can be conducted to identify the correlation between 3D shapes with medical outputs. III. Physical body of people in Europe and Southeast Asia are quite different. Developing database of both areas should give benefit to medical researches. Common parameters should be identified by having this database.


I. Prof. Philip Treleaven, Department of Computer Science, University College London. UK. II. Dr. Jonathan Wells, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. UK. III. Prof. Dr. Surat Komindr, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathipbodee Hospital. Thailand. IV. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology. Thailand.


I. To promote a strengthened cooperation between Europe and Southeast Asia on developing the healthcare database. II. To support the budget in collecting the healthcare database. III. To sponsor the meetings/seminars/conferences of all potential partners.


77 AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC LIGHT CONTROL

Supakorn Siddhichai, Ph.D National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) 112 Thailand Science Park, Phahon Yothin Rd., Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 Tel: +662 564 6900 ext.2250 email: [email protected]


- To investigate and develop a system which can automatically optimize traffic flows, using robust and efficient traffic-light control algorithms and wireless sensor networks together with camera networks, regardless of traffic conditions -To provide a solution for efficient traffic management in a large city and its suburbs, like Bangkok, where the traffic conditions become critical during rush hours and traffic lights are poorly controlled during other periods


The proposed system can help minimize the unnecessary fuel and energy consumption due to poor traffic control in cities and suburbs around the world. The saving of energy consumption equates to higher competitiveness during the current oil price crisis. The efficient transportation and logistics with effective traffic management and control will help Southeast Asian and European countries to compete with the other parts of the world.


- Bangkok Metropolitan Administrations, Office of Transport Policy (Thailand) - Dr. Krysia Broda and Dr. Fariba Sadri, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK - Mr. Clive Spencer, Logic Programming Associate Ltd., London, UK - Dr. Visit Hirankitti, Dept. of Computer Engineering King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Thailand


- Support on the collaborations among the partners - Financial support on test equipments as well as analysis and development tools


78 PHOTONICS EDUCATION THROUGH A COMBINATION OF A HAND-ON

APPROACH AND MEDIA ENGINEERING

Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, Ph.D. Photonics Technology Laboratory National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) 112 Thailand Science Park, Phahonyothin Rd Klong 1, Klong Luang Pathumthani 12120 Thailand Tel: +66-2564-6900 ext. 2102 Fax: +66-2564-6774 E-mail: [email protected]


- To help Thai community especially new generations understand more about optics/photonics and its applications in everyday life through the combination of a hand-on teaching approach, media engineering, web technologies, and social networks - To have and share new media contents related to basic optics/photonics and applications - To encourage students in high schools and universities to do science or engineering projects related to optics and photonics


Because of the lack of media contents related to photonics, available media contents from Europe’s experts and organizations are needed in supporting our current “Shining-Spectrum-to-Society” project. In addition, experiences from Europe’s experts will help guide Thai students on their science or engineering projects that are related to optics and photonics.


Suggested by SEACOOP What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

The SEACOOP project will be a central point for experts and organizations in Europe and Thailand to provide and share media contents related to animations of theories of optics and phenomena, real demonstrations, and real applications in everyday life. These contents will also be translated into Thai language so that students, teachers, and general publics in Thailand understand and realize how optics and photonics play an important role in our daily lives.


79 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC INFORMATION ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION FOR TIME AND COST SAVING

Wasan Pattara-atikom, Ph.D., MBA National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) 112 Thailand Science Park Phaholyothin Rd., Klong 1 Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 Thailand Email : <[email protected]>


- To build a system for collection traffic information from floating vehicles such as GSM-based. - To predict and disseminate road traffic information such as congestion condition and travel time to travellers to reduce time-to-destination, stress, and fuel costs.


Several European organizations, such as TomTom (Netherlands), KeyResearch (Denmark), FTW (Austria), have experienced in analyzing and providing telemetric information to European travellers. This project would help both side to gain better understanding in possibility, requirements, and challenges of telemetric market in Thailand


TomTom (Netherlands), KeyResearch (Denmark), FTW (Austria) and more if interested. What could the SEACOOP project do to support the project you have described?

- Provide financial support - Help to match with interested and expert partners

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