Draft Final Report of  Seminar on ‘Usage of ICT to Promote ASEAN Spirit’

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1) Summary of Proposed Strategies and Tactics To Employ ICT
To Promote ASEAN Spirit

2)  Proposed Techniques to Employ ICT to Promote ASEAN Spirit

3)  Action Plan to Employ ICT to Promote ASEAN Spirit During 2009-2015

4)  Summary Report “Seminar on Usage of ICT to Promote ASEAN Spirit”

1. Social Networking Web can accommodate every member of ASEAN as well as every member of interest group in society to promote ASEAN spirit.
2. Social Networking Web is the most popular collaborative vehicle to date that has created new ways to communicate and share information.
3. Web 2.0 is current and sustainable technology that allows communication facilitation, secured information sharing, interoperability and collaboration on the WWW.

References from Wikipedia 

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust.

Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 as part of social software applications including social bookmarking and annotating photographs. Tagging, which is characteristic of Web 2.0 services, allows non-expert users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy.

1. In implementing the usage of ICT to promote ASEAN spirit, a pioneer group comprising of members who join in this meeting will be organized and extension of members will be encouraged into related agencies and other interest groups in the local society.
2. In using ICT to promote collaborations among ASEAN members, sharing practices and experiences that respond to ASEAN development direction as well as to respond to crisis and disaster affecting to economic and social development within the region will be encouraged as focal points.
3. The pioneer group members will promote wider use of ICT networking feature as collaboration channel in ASEAN cooperation activities and initiatives.
4. In employing ICT to boost up ASEN spirit, effective ICT tools and techniques that in line with current and sustainable technology will be selected.
5. Members in this collaboration group will organize core-group members in order to revise and review its direction, activities and the latest development to be in line with current condition and ASEAN direction.

A collaborative Networking blogware such as WordPress or the likes will be chosen as “Tool” for this project.

 WordPress* is an open source blog publishing application.  WordPress supports one weblog per installation, though multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.

WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. WordPress MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard.

*Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress

http://www.twitter.com/aseanspirit

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.

Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default).

Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon and Feedalizr.

The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees

1.  Brunei
2.  Cambodia
3.  Indonesia
4.  Lao PDR
5.  Malaysia
6.  Myanmar
7.  Philippines
8.  Singapore
9.  Thailand
10.  Vietnam

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