eAsia Summit, 24 December 2009, Colombo, Srilanka
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Asia’s premier event on Information and Communication Technologies
Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), India and Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Sri Lanka have joined hands to organise 4th annual eASiA 2009 conference and exhibition in Colombo, Sri Lanka to celebrate the year 2009 as the year of ICT and English as declared by HE Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka and to promote growth of ICT4D, through consultative dialoguing, strategic planning, knowledge networking and business partnering.
eAsia 2009, is the annual international Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development event with the objective of reinforcing technology and knowledge-centric growth and needs of Asia vis-à-vis Sri Lanka, through capitalisation of market economy and boosting human development. eAsia 2009 – Opportunities for Digital Asia will provide the right opportunity for all stakeholders in the ICT arena to come closer and share a level-playing ground through active conferencing and networking. Spanning over three days, the event will comprise unique thematically inter-related conferences, in the domains of e-Governance, Digital Learning, e-Health, Telecentres and Emerging e-Technologies.
The three-days of conferencing will consist of a number of plenary and technical sessions, focused workshops, seminars, discussion round tables and a full-fledged exhibition, providing excellent opportunity for showcasing projects, programmes and initiatives of government and private sector agencies/corporations, as also for demonstrating innovative ICT products, solutions and applications for various domains covered under the scope of the event. The speakers and attendees will include policy-makers, senior government officials, industry leaders, international development agencies, civil society, academia, and investors. eASIA 2009 will thus be a unique networking and learning opportunity for one and all.
eGov Asia 2009 : eAsia 2009
The progress of e-Government in Asian countries has been uneven across the region. Except for a few countries, most countries are in a very early stage of adopting e-Government. Developing countries in the region have a weak infrastructure to support the development of e-Governance. There is a need to have an enabling legal and policy environment along with human capacity in place to design and implement e-Government applications. In this scenario, it becomes imperative for the countries that are slow to adopt e-Government, to learn from the e-Government strategies and models adopted by countries, such as Singapore and Korea that are way ahead among Asian countries, in the e-Governance ladder. eGov Asia 2009 will provide a platform for all stakeholders- policy makers, practitioners, industry leaders, academicians and architects of e-Government projects- across the Asian continent to share the achievements, challenges and lessons learned in implementing e-Governance. eGov Asia 2009 is fourth in the series of the annual eASiA event. Along with the conference, the exhibition will be a forum to showcase best practices, innovative technologies and ICT solutions.
Key Themes
- Developing Suitable Policy Framework for e-Government
- Web 2.0 and social media for Government (Government 2.0)
- Data Management
- Information Security and Cyber Laws
- Localisation for e-Government
- Open Standards, Interoperability and SOA
- Emerging Technology Trends in e-Governance
- e-Gov perspectives of Asian countries
- e-Governance Best Practises
- e-Inclusion, e-Democracy and e-Participation
- e-Procurement
- Enterprise Solutions
- Urban Governance
- Government Information Infrastructure (Networking, Data Centers and Cloud Computing)
- m-Government
- Changing Roles of Government CIOs
- PPP in e-Government
- Innovative e-Gov initiatives
- FOSS for Government
digitalLEARNING Asia 2009 : eAsia 2009
Digital Learning Asia 2009, one of the five seminal tracks, is committed to bring some of the key drivers from the leading countries of technology-enabled education to deliberate on the pressing challenges of technology-enabled education from capacity building to reengineering pedagogy; change management to providing digital access.
The digital LEARNING ASiA2009 is ‘powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge.’ The conference aims to provide the delegates with an understanding of the various trends and issues associated with the information age in the domain of development in education. The conference also aims at bringing on board case studies, lessons learned, and best practices that could help the stakeholders including decision makers in addressing pertinent issues and drawing policy recommendations and strategies apt for the information economy striving hard to spread the word of education.
Key Themes
- e-Learning in Higher Education: Towards the Virtual Universities
- Challenges in developing e-Learning: Applying Instructional Design in practice
- ICT enabled Teaching and Learning in Primary and Secondary Education
- e-Assessment Frameworks and Methodologies
- Freedom in Learning: Free and Open Learning Course Ware
- Emerging Technologies in e-Learning
- Challenges in Planning, Managing, Deploying and Policy Development in e-Learning
- Pedagogy and andragogy in e-Education
- Informal Learning and Social Networking
- Edutainment: Learning and Gaming
- e-Learning in Community and Professional Development
- Issues and Progress: Standards and Quality in e-Learning
- R & D and Initiatives in e-Learning
- ICT4E – Past , Present and Future
eHEALTH Asia 2009 : eAsia 2009
‘eHEALTH Asia 2009’ – organised as part of the 4th annual ‘eASiA 2009’ ICT conference and exhibition, between 2-4 December 2009 in Colombo, Sri Lanka will bring some of the most eminent eHealth experts, policy makers, researchers, solution developers and technocrats from across Asia and beyond to explore the most cutting-edge technologies and best practices in ICT application for healthcare management, service delivery, clinical efficiency and patient safety.
With the objective for creating an inclusive and multi-stakeholder platform, eHEALTH Asia 2009 is actively engaging government agencies, healthcare service providers, academic/research institutions, medical professionals, ICT solution providers and development agencies working in this domain.
The event will be designed to create a unique platform for visioning and knowledge sharing in the domain of ICT-driven healthcare and facilitate multi-stakeholder partnership and professional networking among governments, industry, academia, civil society organisations and international funding agencies working in Asian region.
Key Themes
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Applications
- National eHealth Policy, Strategy and infrastructure
- Confidentiality, Privacy, Trust and Security of eHealth Records
- Ethical and Legal Issues in eHealth
- Epidemiology, early warning systems and outbreak detection
- Telecommunication, Wireless and Mobile Applications in eHealth
- Electronic Medical Records and Intelligent Medical Systems
- Data Standards & Interoperability for Health Information Exchange
- Emerging & Cutting-Edge Technologies in eHealth
- Social Transformation of Patients and Healthcare Professionals
- Evidence-based Medicine through eHealth,
- eHealth Applications for Developing Countries
Telecentre Forum 2009 : eAsia 2009
For a growing number of people in the Asian region, the telecentre has become an important tool for communication and sharing of information and knowledge. The telecentres are being promoted as an answer to the problems of the digital divide as there are still large sections of society that do not enjoy access to ICTs and are therefore at risk of being excluded from the socio-economic benefits that such access brings. Telecentres have been springing up across developing Asia.
In the past six years, the Asian telecentre movement has gained tremendous momentum and a national advocacy campaign in India triggered under the auspices of the National Alliance for Mission 2007 launched by Prof M S Swaminathan, created a ripple effect not only by the stakeholders but also by the different National Governments, extending the idea of national level upscaling to Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, etc. It is estimated that more than 60 percent of the world’s telecentres will be in the Asian region. There has been a great amount of enthusiasm and new hopes among the emerging Telecentre networks in the Asian region, especially, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and other East and South East Asian Countries.
The Asian Telecentre Forum, fourth in the series of Telecentre forums will focus on the knowledge sharing and Telecentres 2.0 among the new and emerging Telecentre networks in the region. The forum will also provide a platform for deliberating on the key issues facing the Asian Telecentre movement and the way ahead. Experts will be engaged in close assessment of issues relating to project monitoring steered by external financial support, from international development agencies and governments in Asia.
Key Themes
- Sharing of experiences of national Telecentre movements
- Capacity building of Telecentres operators and managers with special reference to Telecentre.org Academies
- Global and National Curricular for different categories of Certifications
- Sustainability and Business models for Telecentres
- Government regulations, Legislatures and National Policy issues for Telecentres
- Telecentre 2.0
- Challenges and Opportunities for Telecenters with the proliferation of Mobile technologies
- Community Radio and Telecentres including experiences of IP radio
- BPO and Telecentres
- Content, Services, Localisation and Connectivity
- Future directions of Regional Telecentre networks and specially of Asia Pacific Telecentre Network
- Grass root innovations
- Web 2.0 and Telcentres
- Future of Web x.0 and how it affects Telecentres worldwide
- New technologies for last mile connectivity
- Cyber Security and Telecentres
Emerging e-Technologies Asia 2009 : eAsia 2009
It is an accepted fact that the rapid developments in the emerging e-technologies have formed the bed rock of all e-applications used in the wider society. Taken as a whole, Asia contributes to this advancement in no insignificant way, as demonstrated by published research work by scientists in the region. In recognizing this fact, the e-Asia premier conference places no lesser emphasis on the e-technologies by having a dedicated track for the discussion and presentation of cutting edge research done in this arena.
The broader areas covered in this domain range from media technologies to language processing, ubiquitous connectivity to distributed processing, information security to web services and knowledge based systems to free and open source software.
Apart from the presentations of researchers involved, there will be plenary sessions delivered by world renowned personnel on emerging e-technology themes. This track will enable all those who are involved in furthering the frontiers of technical innovations to network among the leading personnel in the fields for the mutual benefit of all, and for the collective advancement of the ICT in the Asian region.
Key Themes
- Bioinformatics
- Cognitive Science
- Robotics
- Intelligent Systems
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Image and Speech Recognition
- Localization and Language Processing Applications
- Mobile Applications
- Innovative Applications of Free and Open Source
- Information System Security, Privacy and Legal Issues
- Human Computer Interaction
- Networking Technology Applications
- Web Services, Mashups and Social Applications
- Computer Forensics
- Visual Computing and Multimedia Applications
- Software Process
- Ontology and Knowledge Engineering
- Grid and Cloud Computing
- Games, Multimedia and Allied Technologies
- Data Warehousing and Mining