Sub-COMMITTEE on S&T INFRASTRUCTURE & RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
ASEAN Committee on Science,
Technology, and Innovation (COSTI)
SCIRD: Terms of Reference & Projects
The Sub-Committee on S&T Infrastructure and Resources Development aims to promote S&T policy studies, to improve the management of S&T, to increase awareness in S&T developments in the region, to establish an ASEAN Technology Information Network, and to develop infrastructure for ASEAN as a learning society. The sub-committee will continue to look after projects that are not within the purview of the other eight sub-committees.
The priority areas of SCIRD for period 2016-2025 are:
- Policy studies on STI development, utilisation and commercialisation;
- STI Management and Information Dissemination;
- STI Enculturation;
- STI support to MSMEs, start-ups and the bottom of the pyramid
- Youth and women-focused innovation;
- Public-Private Partnership Platform; and
- Capacity building and talent mobility.
The specific objectives of SCIRD for the period of 2016-2025 are
- To develop policies that set an environment conducive to strengthening the capabilities and relevant infrastructure of ASEAN in STI development, utilisation and commercialisation;
- To develop programs to facilitate, monitor and assess the implementation of agreed STI initiatives; and
- To establish mechanisms to promote collaboration, networking and coordination among the relevant stakeholders in STI.
Brunei Darussalam
To be updated
Experts Group on Metrology (EGM): Terms of Reference & Projects
The ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (COST) endorsed the recommendation of ASEAN Sub-Committee on S&T Infrastructure and Resources Development (SCIRD) to set up an ASEAN Experts Group on Metrology (EGM) during their 61st Meeting, held on 11-13 May 2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The purpose of EGM is to develop and promote scientific metrology to underpin the quality infrastructure. This is to enable ASEAN to:
- advance its single market agenda;
- enhance ASEAN enterprise participation in global value chains; and
- support ASEAN enterprise innovation.
The EGM shall perform the following functions:
- Identify measurement capabilities necessary to support ASEAN’s priority areas, and a harmonised ASEAN measurement system in conformance to international standards;
- Identify measures by which EGM can consistently take in order to sustain metrology development of ASEAN, such as:
- Establish sustainable mechanism to share metrological traceability among AMS; and
- Support developing National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) to have internationally recognised metrological traceability for their national measurement standards;
- Facilitate and accelerate the transfer of the scientific and technology development in Metrology among ASEAN countries and from more advanced regions of the world to the ASEAN region;
- Provide technical and in-kind support and assistance in the development and applications of research in Metrology;
- Raise awareness on roles and contribution of metrology and quality infrastructure in enhancing competitive capacity and innovative capacity among relevant ASEAN sectoral bodies;
- Promote cooperation among EGM members, other ASEAN’s quality infrastructure (QI) bodies (e.g. ACCSQ), and relevant ASEAN sectoral bodies;
- Promote cooperation between EGM and regional and international metrology and quality infrastructure organisations, and not duplicate any of the existing initiatives
Malaysia
To be updated
National Research and Innovation Agency
(Badan Riset Inovasi Nasional)
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