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Agenda of The 2nd Asia Open Source Software Symposium
| 16:00-18:30 | Registration |
Monday, 3rd November
| [AM] (Chairman: Mr. Harish Pillay, Singapore) | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome Address from Singapore |
| 09:00-09:10 | Mr. Lim Swee Tat President, Linux Users' Group, Singapore |
| 09:10-09:20 | Welcome Address from Japan |
| Mr. Akio Kanaya Executive director, Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization | |
| 09:20-09:40 | Opening Speech from Singapore |
| Mr. Chua Taik Him Assistant Managing Director, EDB | |
| 09:40-09:45 | Opening Speech from Japan |
| Mr. Hiroyoshi Watanabe Director for International Cooperation, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | |
| 09:45-10:00 | Brief Introduction of Asia OSS |
| Dr. Shuichi Tashiro Project leader, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15-11:00 | Keynote: Development of Multi Lingual Editor |
| (including 15min Q&A) | Dr. Kenichi Handa Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
| 11:00-11:45 | Keynote: A Case for Nation-wide Linux PC Distribution |
| (including 15min Q&A) | Dr. Thaweesak Koanantakool Director, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center |
| 11:45-13:30 | Lunch |
| [PM](Chairman: Prof. Hiroaki Takada) | |
| Reports from Members : 10 min/economy (total 18 economies) | |
| 13:25-13:30 | Introduction of the members (Chairman) |
| 13:30-13:40 | Bangladesh - Bangla Innovation though Open Source (BIOS) |
| Mr. Muhanmmad Shariqul Islam Azad Administrator, Netec Computing | |
| 13:40-13:50 | Brunei Darussalam |
| Dr Lim Chee Ming Senior Lecturer, Universiti Brunei Darussalam | |
| 13:50-14:00 | Cambodia - Report from Cambodia |
| Mr. Noy Shoung Member of GAIS and National ICT Policy,National Information Communications Technology Development Authority | |
| 14:00-14:10 | China - Chinese Linux Standardization An Update |
| Dr. Gao Lin Chief Technical officer, China Electronics Standardization Institute | |
| 14:10-14:20 | India - India: The FLOSS Agenda |
| Mr. Frederick Noronha Freelance journalist, BytesForAll | |
| 14:20-14:30 | Indonesia - Current Status on Open Source Movement in Indonesia |
| Mr. Yohanes Nugroho Engineer, Institute of Technology Bandung / OSCG | |
| 14:30-14:40 | Japan - Report from Japan |
| Dr. Yutaka Niibe Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | |
| 14:40-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:10 | Korea - OSS Activities in Korea |
| Mr. Kwon Soon Son Founder and leader, Korean Linux Documentation Project | |
| 15:10-15:20 | Lao P.D.R - Open Source Development in Lao PDR |
| Mr. Phonpasit Phissamay Director of Information Technology Center, Science Technology and Environment Agency | |
| 15:20-15:30 | Malaysia |
| Mr. Dinesh Nair Director, Technology WorldCare Asia Pte Ltd | |
| 15:30-15:40 | Myanmar |
| Mr. U Thein Oo President, Myanmar Computer Federation (MCF) | |
| 15:40-15:50 | Pakistan |
| Mr. Salman Ansari Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of IT and Telecom | |
| 15:50-16:00 | Philippines - Status of OSS Initiatives in the Philippines |
| Dr. Jay Sabido Institute Director, Advanced Science and Technology Institute, Department of Science and Technology | |
| 16:00-16:10 | Singapore |
| Mr. Harish Pillay Linux Users' Group Singapore | |
| 16:10-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-16:40 | Sri Lanka - OSS and Sri Lanka |
| Dr. A. Ruvan Weerasinghe Senior Lecturer, Head, University of Colombo School of Computing | |
| 16:40-16:50 | Thailand -OSS Push and Pull in Thailand |
| Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich Research supervisor, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory (TCL) CRL Asia Research Center | |
| 16:50-17:00 | Chinese Taipei -Report from Chinese Taipei on Open Source |
| Dr. Jan Ming Ho Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica | |
| 17:00-17:10 | Vietnam - The use of Open Source in Vietnam - 2003 |
| Dr. Do Van Loc General Director, Ministry of Science and Technology | |
| 17:10-17:20 | Announcement of BOF (5 min/session, total 2 sessions) |
| 17:20-17:30 | Announcements from Secretariat |
| [Evening] | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Reception hosted by CICC |
| 20:30-22:30 | BOF (two parallel BOF sessions) (2 rooms) |
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1. Open Source Software for e-Learning led by Mr. Lim Kim Chew (Singapore) 2. Legal Issues for OSS led by Mr. Kuo Wei Wu (Chinese Taipei) | |
Tuesday, 4th November
| [AM] | |
| 09:00-09:20 | BOF Summaries (10 min/session, total 2 sessions) |
| 09:20-09:30 | Discussion of BOF |
| 09:30-12:00 | Round Table 1 (including Coffee Break)
(Moderator: Prof. Masayuki Ida) |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| [PM] | |
| 13:30-14:40 | Special Session for Standardization
(Moderator: Dr. Syuichi Tashiro, Mr. Yutaka Niibe) |
| 14:40-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-16:30 | Round Table 2 (Compilation of the Roadmap,
including the discussion toward the 3rd OSS Symposium in Vietnam)
(Moderator: Prof. Masayuki Ida) |