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Prepared by Dudi Hidayat

Center for S&T Development StudiesIndonesian Institute of Sciences

Chiang Mai, 30 May – 1 June 2011



Back round 1

Beginning

in

mid

2002,

in

collaboration

with

the

Re ublic of Korea, ASEAN launched a ro ect to

develop indicators of technological competitiveness among ASEAN Countries

Throughout the lifetime of the projects (2 years), some

degree of capacity to collect and presenting S&T

participating countries.

owever, as can e seen n e comp e eness o

ASTMIS data and as was discussed during the S&T

Indicators workshop in Bangkok (March 2009), much

st nee to e eve ope



Back round 2During the S&T Indicators workshop in Bangkok (March 2009)

that was sponsored by ASEAN‐EU Net and UNESCO, a number o exper s on n ca ors rom coun r es ga ere

and discussed the development status of S&T indicators in

respective countries.

The countries represented were: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

The theme of the workshop were centered

around three Cs: Cooperation, Co‐creation and



Conclusion of the Worksho 1

• the mandate stated in the Hanoi Plan of Hanoi Plan of Action to “Establish a technology scan mechanism and institutionalize a system of science and technolog indicators” has

ct on on

indicators has not

not been fully implemented

implemented

• Neither the development of ASTMIS

databases and new indicators as

S&T Plan of

Action on ASTMIS

man ate in t e ASEAN P an o Action

on Science and Technology (2001‐2004)” was fully implemented

ata ases not been fully



Conclusion of the Worksho 2

• further collaborations and experience The need for sharing among ASEAN member countries in regard to collecting S&T indicators and

statistics and their use for policy makin

Collaboration

and experience

are timely neededsharing

• With this background, the Bangkok

workshop participants have agreed to

Agree

to

propose t e esta is ment o ASEAN

Network of Expert on Science and

Technology Indicators (ASNESTI).

propose

ASNESTI



3 Needs for the Network

The need of each

countr to build

The need to

improve the

an effective

institutional

e nee o s are

experiences and

best practices quality of data

, analyze and

presenting S&T

among ASEAN

countries

in icators



To identify existin

relevant indicators for

eve op ng

economies

Challenges

To identify the

shortcomings To identify the

possible new or ASNESTI

of these

indicators

n ca ors a

could be

develo ed

To identif the

possible avenues for improving or

indicators



Pros ects of the ASNESTI

• In the future, the ASNESTI can be

attached to ASEAN Secretariat as a

Future

• with a clear mandate from the

Secretariat to monitor, supervise, direct as a

respective countries and contribute to

the

development

of

indicators

and

“Working

policy makersarty



Pro osed O eration of the ASNESTI

• The annual meeting will be held at different countries every year. The

the host country.

• At the same time, ever member Main

country shall support at least one of

their

S&T

indicators

experts

to

be

act v ty

experts meeting (???)



Challan es

According

to

the

Asean Secretariate,

considering

the

’ , accept the idea of attaching ASNESTI to the

.

An option is to design ASNESTI as a taskforce under

An active promotion to the SCIRD Member is required

Still need to be done

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