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Programme Schedule of 7th Symposium

7th Sympo Programme

PROGRAMME FOR 7th ASIA OPEN SOURCE SYMPOSIUM
March 6-8, 2006
Nikko Hotel,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tentative Programme:

Day 1: March 6th 2006 (Closed Session)

08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Address from Co-Chair by Dr. Shuichi Tashiro, General Manager, Open Source Software Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency(IPA), Japan, and Ms Rohani Ismail, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
09:30 - 10:00	Presentation on “Towards Asia Open Source Ecosystem for Sustainable Development ” by Ms. Raja Noor Ainin R. Zainal Abidin, President & CEO of MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00	Presentation on “Establishment of OSS center in Japan” by Dr. Shuichi Tashiro, Chairman of Asia OSS Steering Committee General Manager, Open Source Software Center Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan, and Presentation on “Overview of Co-Operative Benchmark Evaluation Project” by Mr. Tomomi Suzuki, Director of OSS Promotion Open Source Software Technology Center, Software Division Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
11:00 - 11:30	Presentation on “OSS Ecosystem in Malaysia “ by Mr. Hemant Shah, IBM Asean/SA Strategic Growth Business Executive & IBM Asean/SA Linux Executive, Malaysia
11:30 - 12:00	Presentation on "OSS at School, Local Government and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)" by Mr. Kazuo Hiyane, Research Director, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Mr. Kazuhiro Ooki, Manager, Linux Promotion Center, NEC Corporation, Mr. Seiya Maeda, President, Good Day Inc., Japan.
12:00 - 12:30	Presentation on “Implementation of OSS at Government” by Mr. Nam Il Kyu, Director, OSS Promotion Center, KIPA, Korea
12:30 - 13:00	Presentation on “Sri Lankan FOSS R&D Activity” by Mr. Chamindra De Silva, Acting Director of Lanka Software Foundation, Lead Committer of Sahana FOSS Disaster Management Project, and Committer of Apache AXIS C++ engine, Sri Lanka
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch at Junior Ballroom, Nikko Hotel, Malaysia
14:00 - 14:30	Presentation on “Report of Localization Workshop in Cambodia” by Mr. Takayuki Sato, General Director, CICC, Japan Presentation on “The Future of Asia OSS Training Program” by Mr. Toru Yamauchi, Managing Director, Japan and Mr. Venkataraman Narayanan, Consultant Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) Singapore Office
14:30 - 16:00	Report on “Summary of Asia OSS Economy”
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee/Tea Break
16:30 - 19:00	Working Group Meeting on Human Resource Chaired by Mr. Lim Kin Chew, Manager Center for IT in Education & Learning, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Working Group Meeting on Standards / Localisation, Chaired by Mr. Takayuki K. Sato, General Manager & Chief Researcher, CICC Working Group Meeting on Open Source Ecosystem Chaired by Dr. Azman Firdaus Shafii, Founder Chairman & CEO Open Source System Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner at Mandarin Oriental Hotel--Hosted by CICC (by invitation only)

Day 2: March 7th 2006 - Opening Ceremony (Open to Public)

08:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:40

Welcoming Address by Ms Raja Noor Ainin R. Zainal for President & CEO of MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

09:40 - 09:50

Welcoming Address by Mr Akio Kanaya, Executive Director of Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC), Japan

09:50 – 13.20

Planery Session 1
Chairperson :
Y.Bhg Dato' Dr. Raja Malik Raja Mohamed
President, Malaysian National Computer Confederation, Malaysia

09:50 - 10:20	Presentation on “How FLOSS Helps Local Economic Growth and Business Development" by Mr. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Senior Researcher, UNU-MERIT (United Nations University - Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology), Netherlands
10:20 – 10:50	Presentation on “Proliferation of OSS in the Malaysian Public Sector” by Dr. Nor Aliah Mohd Zahri Deputy Director General ( ICT ) MAMPU, Prime Minister Department, Malaysia
10:50 – 11:20	Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 - 11:50	Presentation on "Establishing the Community: the Ruby Case" by Mr. Yukihiro Matsumoto Research Fellow, Fundamental Research Group Network Applied Communication Laboratory (NaCl), Japan
11:50 - 12:20	Presentation Address on “Successful Case Study in implementing OSS Ecosystem in Extremadura in Spain” by Mr. Luis Casas Luengo, Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology in Extremadura, Spain
12:20 - 12:50	Presentation on “CE Linux Forum (Embedded System) A Challenge to establish an OS Development Community” by Mr. Satoru Ueda, Technical Marketing Manager Sony Corporation, Japan
12:50 - 13:20	Presentation on “OSS-styled Knowledge Development System (KUI)” by Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Research Supervisor Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory (TCL) CRL Asia Research Center, Thailand

13:20 – 14:30

Lunch at Junior Ballroom , Nikko Hotel, Malaysia

14:30 - 16:10

Official Opening

14:30 - 14:50	Arrival of invited guests
14:50 - 15:00	Arrival of YB Dato' Sri Jamaludin Jarjis Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) Malaysia
15:00 -15:20	Speech by Mr. Katsuhiko Kaji Director, Commerce and Information Policy Burea Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan
15:20 -15:40	Speech and Official Opening by YB Dato' Sri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia
15:40 -16:10	Refreshments & Press Conference

16:10 - 17:20

Plenary Session (cont'd)

16:10 - 16:50

Presentation on “Malaysian Open Source Community
- Past, Present and Future” by
Mr. Ditesh Kumar, Software Manager, QubeConnect Sdn. Bhd and
Dr. Nah Soo Hoe, Community Advocate for OSS Malaysia

16:50 -17:20

Presentation on “CodeFest Asia and Local CodeFest
--Our Experience of Free Software Developments” by
Mr. Yutaka Niibe, Group Leader
Free Software Initiative Group, of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Mr. Kwon Soon Son, Founder and leader, Korean Linux Documentation Project (KLDP), Korea

Mr. Rizal Mohd. Nor, Researcher, MIMOS Berhad

17:20 – 19:20

Working Group Meeting (continue from Day 1)

20:00 - 22:30

Dinner and Malaysian Cultural Show, Saloma Bistro
Kuala Lumpur, Hosted by MIMOS Berhad (by invitation only)

Day 3: March 8th 2006 (Closed Session)

09:15 - 10:30	Round Table 1 - Report from each Working Group
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00	Round Table 2 - Kuala Lumpur Statement
12:00 - 12:15	Closing Address by CICC/MIMOS
12:15 – 14:00	Lunch at Junior Ballroom, Nikko Hotel, Malaysia & Hotel Check-out
14:00 - 18:00	City Tour (Registered Participants Only) - Visit to The Malaysian Government Open Source Competency Centre Hosted by MAMPU, Prime Minister Department, Malaysia - Visit to Cyberjaya, Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur

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