The ASEAN COST Workshop to Draft Implementation Plan of Flagship Programmes was held at the Novotel Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia, on 3-4 May 2011. The Workshop was formally opened by the Indonesia Minister of Science and Technology HE Suharna Surapranata, by striking a gong.
The six ASEAN COST Flagship Programmes are:
- Early Warning System for Disaster Risk Reduction with Indonesia as the lead Country
- Development and Application of Open Source with Indonesia as the lead Country
- Biofuels with Malaysia as the lead Country
- Functional Food withThailand as the lead Country
- Health with Singapore as the lead Country
- Climate Change with Philippines/Vietnam as the lead Countries
- To create greater general awareness and adoption of legal and affordable OSS-based product and services, and open standards
- To increase the capacity of the region in developing OSS and in supporting OSS efforts.
- To increase cooperation and collaboration in information technology development research especially in the field of open source-based software development that is related to R&D areas of specific interest to each country.
- To foster technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the loval/regional open source software industry.
- To propmote e-governance and a knowledge-based society.
- To improve and accelerate access to and sharing of information among ASEAN countries.