Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) has held the “Asia OSS Symposium” eight times together with local Counterparts during March 2003 and February 2007, in order to exchange information and experience of each economy and to discuss the way of mutual collaboration in Asian region.
(Please refer to http://www.asia-oss.org/ )

From this time, we renewed AOSS event with renaming “Asia OSS Conference and Showcase” and expanded the event with two tracks, one is for Government/Education sector, and another is for Business sector. Concretely, in order for the government sector participants to understand the best practices to promote OSS in their economies, OSS implementation case study into e-government will be introduced. Also in order for private sector participants to give some hint for OSS business, Case Study of System Integration in which OSS and commercial software utilized will be introduced. Moreover, Sponsorship as well as Exhibition booth will be prepared especially for business sector. In this regards, we would like you to participate this Asia OSS Conference & Showcase actively, mainly from government and private sector from Asian region.

Venue : Bangkok, Thailand
CodeFest and Essentials Training : Thailand Science Park Main Conference Asia OSS Conference & Showcase : Sifitel Central Grand Bangkok Hotel (Formerly Sofitel Central Plaza Hotel)

Date :
November 5-6, 2007

• CodeFest / Essentials Training (mainly for local participation)

November 7–8, 2007

• Asia OSS Conference & Showcase (main conference)

November 9, 2007

• OSS Center Meeting (closed session)
  

 

Government/Education track

• OSS implementation case study into e-government, in order for the government sector participants to understand the best practices to promote OSS in their economies
• Case study of OSS center management and activities
• Case study of Human Resource development, Technology

Business track

• Case study of System Integration in which OSS and commercial software utilized, in order for private sector participants to give some hint for OSS business (Both Management and/or Technology point of view)
• Case study introduced by Sponsors

1. CodeFest (Mainly for Local): Programming event under specific theme for OSS hacker
2. Essential Course (Mainly for Local): Training for engineers of local IT companies, OSS users, and academe, to increase the number of OSS user
3. Asia OSS Conference and Showcase (Main event) : Theme and speech will be divided into two tracks.
4. OSS Center Meeting (Closed): OSS Center Meeting will be closed style only for government sector from each economies in order to discuss collaboration among OSS center in Asian Region. From Japan, Information Promotion Technology Agency (IPA) will participate and be in charge. Details will be announced by IPA / NECTEC.

Others OSS Center Meeting will be closed style only for goverment sector from each economy in order to discuss collaboration among OSS center in Asian region. Those who have OSS Centers in their regions, please inform AOSS Secretariat of your OSS center details. IPA/NECTEC will send invitation letter to OSS Center Meeting.