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ASEAN IVO Forum

The ASEAN IVO Forum is an annual event providing an opportunity for
all ASEAN IVO members to exchange ideas, discuss R&D topics andcoordinate projects. Each year, the ideas exchanged lead to new
project teams forming in time for the following Call for Proposals. TheForum is hosted in a diﬀerent ASEAN country each year.

Past Forums:
2019

November 20-21, Manila, The Philippines

2018

November 27-28, Jakarta, Indonesia

2017

November 23-24, Bandar Seri Begawan,Brunei Darussalam

2016

November 24, Hanoi, Vietnam

2015

November 26, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Pictures from ASEAN IVO
Forum 2019 in Manilaof ASEAN Institutesand NICT
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Steering Committee

A Steering Committee formed from the ASEAN IVO member institutes and NICT, withone or two representatives for each ASEAN country. The Steering Committee
is responsible for overseeing ASEAN IVO activities. Meetings are
typically held twice a year.
The Steering Committee : Selects proposals for collaborative
projects; Reviews ongoing projects and provides feedback;Promotes A SE AN IVO with relevant ministries andorganizations and identiﬁes sources of support for
ASEAN IVO activities; Decides overall ASEAN IVO policyand administrative matters.

Picture of the ASEAN IVOSC Meeting 2019 in Manila

For MoreInformation
Homepage:
http://www.nict.go.jp/en/asean_ivo/
ASEAN IVO Secretariat:
Email: asean_ivo_sc_nict@ml.nict.go.jp

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ASEAN

IVO

About ASEAN IVO“ICT Virtual Organization of ASEAN Institutes and NICT” (ASEAN IVO) is a global alliance of institutes anduniversities in the ASEAN region and Japan focused on ICT research and development.
The mission of ASEAN IVO is to seek and identify strategic ICT research areas in the ASEAN region andsupport collaborative projects in them, promoting international alliance amongst universities and research
institutes in the ASEAN region and Japan.
Collaborative projects aim to address common challenges such as communication limitations in rural areas
and disaster situations, language barriers, network security, energy, infrastructure, agriculture etc.
The idea for ASEAN IVO was conceived at the “International Roundtable on ICT R&D Collaboration in the ASEAN Region”
held in 2013 by NICT. A proposal to establish the Organization was brought by NICT and approved at the second Round
Table in 2015. ASEAN IVO began in 2015 with 23 members from 8 ASEAN countries plus Japan. Now membership includes
all ASEAN countries, with 60 members as of April 2020 and rising.

Some ASEAN IVO Projects
Open Collaboration for Developing and Using Asian Language Treebank (2016)(Complete)
Leader: NICT (Japan)
Members: BPPT (Indonesia), I2R (Singapore), IOIT (Vietnam), UET (Vietnam),
NIPTICT (Cambodia), UCSY (Myanmar), NECTEC (Thailand), PUP (Philippines)
Award-winning publication:
Chenchen Ding, Vichet Chea, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Sethserey Sam,Sopheap Seng: Statistical Khmer Name Romanization. PACLING, 2017 Best PaperAward.

A Hybrid Security Framework for IoT Networks (2017)

Membership

Members: NECTEC (Thailand), MIMOS (Malaysia), HUST (Vietnam), NUCE (Vietnam),
NICT (Japan), NES (Japan)

ASEAN IVO members can apply to make presentations on their research activities at the ASEAN IVO Forum, with thepossibility of receiving support for travel expenses. Additionally, member universities and public research institutes
from ASEAN countries are eligible to receive ﬁnancial support for collaborative projects.

Award-winning publications:Dang Hai Hoang, Ha Duong Nguyen: A PCA-based Method for IoT Network Traﬃc Anomaly Detection. Proc. of IEEE ICACT,Korea, Feb. 2018. Best paper Award.

Membership is open to universities, institutes and companies located in the ASEAN region. Depending on the type oforganization, the following conditions may apply:
1. Organizations applying for membership must be involved in research and development in the ﬁeld of ICT.
2. Organizations from non-ICT sectors can be accepted as members, if their aim in joining is ICT development for theirﬁeld.
3. Private companies are welcome to apply for membership if the company applying provides matching funds for ASEAN
IVO joint projects. No ﬁnancial support will be provided to the company.

Chalee Vorakulpipat, Ekkachan Rattanalerdnusorn, Phithak Thaenkaew, Hoang Dang Hai: Recent Challenges, Trends andConcerns related to IoT security: An evolutionary study. Proc. of IEEE ICACT, Korea, Feb. 2018. Best paper Award.

Research Collaboration
New collaborative projects are selected for support through anannual call for proposals. All projects are required to include
par tic ipant ins ti tu tions f rom at leas t t wo di ﬀerent A SE ANcountries. Proposals from all technical ﬁelds are welcome and are
evaluated on the potential beneﬁt of output.
ASEAN IVO supports research collaboration by:
1. Developing common technologies in broad areas based oncommon considerations
2. Forming multinational collaborative projects for research, ﬁeldtrials, etc. to address common regional needs
3. Promoting collaborative research through researcher exchange
4. Sharing knowledge through international joint workshops
and other academic events
A call is periodically made to ASEAN IVO members for proposals
related to the above, ﬁnancial support is oﬀered by NICT.

2Leader: PTIT (Vietnam)

NAPC: Networked ASEAN Peat Swamp Forest Communities (2018)
Leader: UPM (Malaysia)
Members: NICT (Japan), MIMOS (Malaysia), Bogor Agricultural University(Indonesia), UTB (Brunei), BPPT (Indonesia)
This project is to enable connectivity for IoT-based monitoring system in peatswamp forest areas in three ASEAN countries. This way the forest management
community and researchers can further understand peat swamp forest ecosystem
by analyzing the collected micro climate data. The system will also serve as a peatswamp forest ﬁre monitoring system for immediate human and automatedinterventions via FDRS.
GNSS and Ionospheric Data Products for Disaster
Prevention and Aviation in Magnetic Low- Latitude
Regions (2019)
Leader: KMITL (Thailand)Members: CMU (Thailand), NUOL (Laos), YTU (Myanmar), NICT (Japan)
This project aims to expand ionospheric observational infrastructure in Thailand,
Myanmar and Laos, and perform data analysis from multi-sensor sources
including GNSS, ionosonde and VHF radar stations located at the magnetic
equator and in low-latitude regions.
The added data sources and existing observational data will be analyzed. Data
products such as ROTI maps, Spread F statistics, which are useful as communication
alternatives during disasters and for disturbance detection, will be generated foraeronautical navigation purposes. The plasma bubbles, based on the new VHF radar
station at the Chumphon campus, will be studied. Finally, all the data products will beupdated on the Thai GNSS and Ionosphere Data Center’s website.

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