8 Plan for 2001
In 2000, UNU/IIST succeeded in meeting the challenge of increasing
needs from developing countries, and in 2001 UNU/IIST will mobilise external
resources to further expand its training activities and further widen its
technical scope in order to meet more demands from its constituencies.
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In addition to the course on Algorithmics, Introduction to the Science
of Computing prepared in 1999 and delivered in Chittagong University, Bangladesh,
in October 1999 by Dr. Tomasz Janowski, UNU/IIST is preparing 3 more new
courses on Software Project Management and Quality Control, SPIN and Model
Checking, and Verilog and Co-design. The first two are being prepared by
colleagues from the University of Swinburne in Australia and the University
of Macau respectively under UNU/IIST coordination.
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In the International Symposium on Software Industry in Developing Countries,
the invited speeches on software techniques, project management, quality
assurance and certification attracted great interest among the symposium
participants. Arrangement of training courses on the above subjects will
be considered.
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Negotiations with Center of Information, Federal University of Pernambuco,
Brazil, Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India and National
University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia are going well. We can expect
three training schools in the area of computer science to be organised
in 2001 at the above institutions for countries in South America, Central
Asia (under the support of UNESCO Almaty Office) and South Asia. A training
school at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for
the countries from the Southern African Development Community is under
discussion. By inviting professors from Brazil, India, Mongolia and South
Africa to support UNU/IIST training, UNU/IIST can meet more needs with
its limited resources and also promote South to South cooperation.
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In order to expand the project of Development of Computer Science Departments,
UNU/IIST will identify more partner universities to train UNU/IIST fellows.
According to the MoU signed between Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology
in South Korea and UNU/IIST, the Institute will receive annually up to
3 fellows recommended by UNU/IIST. Similar arrangements are under discussion
with University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, IIT, Bombay, India, National
University of Singapore, Singapore and South Bank University, London, UK.
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UNU/IIST will encourage its ex-Fellows to organise events on behalf of
UNU/IIST in their home countries. Selected members of the Alumni Association
will be invited to submit proposals.
UNU/IIST is also expecting to further strengthen its research activities.
More effort will be spent on the publication of the three books. Jointly
with University of Macau, UNU/IIST will organise APSEC'2001 (Asia and Pacific
Software Engineering Conference) in Macau, and will try to initiate the
FMAP (Formal Methods of Asia and Pacific).
info@iist.unu.edu, 08 Feb 2001
