4th SEACOOP Cooperation Forum on “Internet of Things”

April 5, 2011
Legend Hotel Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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SEACOOP has organised a series of events in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, with the support of the National Council for S&T Policy (NCSTP), the SEACOOP partner for Vietnam, on April 4 to 5, 2011.

On April 4, the 6th SEACOOP consortium meeting has been held at the Legend Hotel, allowing to satisfactorily review all SEACOOP activities developed so far and planned in the next months, including the key one focusing on the identification of cooperation priorities between the two regions.

This meeting was followed by the 4th meeting of the SEACOOP Advisory Committee, which provided the opportunity for strengthened exchanges between the SEACOOP partnership and members of this Committee, and concluded on a shared determination to develop cooperation projects to be proposed in response to upcoming FP7 ICT Calls.

On April 5, in the same venue, a cooperation forum on Internet of Things has been organized by the SEACOOP partnership with the support of CASAGRAS2 project, a FP7 project looking at global standards, regulatory and other issues concerning RFID and its role in realising an Internet of Things.

The event, attended by over 80 participants, led to promising perspectives. The importance of IoT research in Southeast Asia and the determination of stakeholders from this region to strengthen cooperation links with Europe have been confirmed. In the short term, Southeast Asian countries are invited to get involved as supporting partners in the CASAGRAS2 initiative. In the longer term, the possibility to identify ASEAN, in future versions of the FP7/FP8 work programme, as a specific region for strategic cooperation on IoT will be promoted by the SEACOOP project. Interaction between participants on identified perspectives is also be expected to continue developing in the coming weeks and months under the aegis of the SEACOOP partnership.