The Asian Institute of Technology will soon be home to an open source centre of excellence...
"The Asian Institute of Technology will soon be home to an open source centre of excellence..." Read all about it athttp://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/29Nov2006_data001.phpClick here for the same article published in Bangkok Post's Database on 29 November 2006:(Link to PDF file of the article)More details can also be found below:
UNU, AIT partner on open source software development
The United Nations University’s International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) and AIT are joining hands to address a growing need for open source software developers in the Asia-Pacific region.

Conference calls for papers

The University Support to Environmental Planning and Management project (USEPAM – http://www.usepam.ait.ac.th)
at Regional and Rural Development Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development will organize a regional conference on 'Environmental Planning and Management in Southeast Asian Countries' in Hanoi, Vietnam, during 6-8 March 2007.

The specific objectives of the conference are: 1) to facilitate the exchange of experiences gained in and lessons learned from regionally coordinated capacity building projects implemented for strengthening multidisciplinary curricula, outreach activities and applied research capacity in the area of environmental planning and management amongst academicians, policymakers, planners and international development agencies in the region who are carrying out same or similar projects; 2) to provide a forum to researchers as well as planners and policymakers for presenting results of and methodological experiences in research projects; for sharing lessons learned through implementation of environmental management policies; for discussing the policy implications of the findings of the research projects; and for seeking policy oriented research issues.

Asian Internet Engineering Conference

The Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab) at AIT and the WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment ) Project, Japan, will be organizing the Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2006 from 28-30 November 2006 at AIT Conference Center Auditorium.

Doctoral comprehensive examinations scheduled
Mr Anupam Das (IBP017331), a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in School of Management (SOM) will have his comprehensive examination on Monday, 11 December 2006, 8:30 a.m. in Seminar Room, SOM Building.

Wireless 'DUMBO' turns ordinary laptops, PDAs into live-saving network

Public demonstration takes place 1 December

The Asian Institute of Technology is hosting a public demonstration of a new mobile wireless network for use on an ad hoc basis, such as after a natural disaster when a fixed network infrastructure is not available or had been destroyed.

AIT set to become a United Nations University associated institute

The United Nation University (UNU) council at its 53rd council meeting held in Tokyo recently approved AIT as a UNU Associated Institution. To this effect AIT and UNU will work closely on the following issues:

Urban Futures and Mega Cities, which will include guidelines for planning future urban areas and ensuring a pleasant and secure urban environment as well as managing present day mega cities.

Prof. Johri to coordinate AIT Consultancy task force

With enthusiastic response from students, staff and faculty on setting up an AIT consultancy service, a meeting was held on 22 November 2006.

At the meeing, it was decided that Prof. Lalit Johri will coordinate the task force which will produce a document to be used to formalize and get this going.

Minority fellowships available

Fellowships are being provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to persons belonging to national or ethnic religious and linguistic minorities - particularly young minority women and men.

Job vacancies
Project Manager/CIDA- AIT SEA-UEMA

CIDA-AIT Southeast Asia UEM Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project (2003-2008) is recruiting a Project Manager for the overall development, management and implementation of the project. S(he) works in close partnership with the Project Director, Project Component Coordinators, and the Project Gender Specialist.

Job vacancies
Project Manager/CIDA- AIT SEA-UEMA

CIDA-AIT Southeast Asia UEM Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project (2003-2008) is recruiting a Project Manager for the overall development, management and implementation of the project. S(he) works in close partnership with the Project Director, Project Component Coordinators, and the Project Gender Specialist.