Collaboration of ASEAN Foundation and Muhammadiyah conducted Dissemination Seminar on the Communication and Information Systems for the Control of Avian Influenza (CISCAI) on Tuesday, 4 October 2011. It was attended by 50 participants from donor agency USAID, local and international non-governmental organizations, Ministry of Health, FAO and autonomy institutions under Muhammadiyah Central Board organization. The opening ceremony was opened by Prof Dr Syafiq Mughni of Chairman Central Board of Muhammadiyah and Dr Makarim Wibisono, the Executive Director of ASEAN Foundation.

The collaboration itself was started in the middle of 2009, followed by signing the Memorandum of Understanding in August 2010. It challenged the need of Integrated Participatory Surveillance Database Management System to control the disease of Avian Influenza that involved all stakeholders' participation starting from community or grass roots level up to the decision makers of Local Government Offices, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture. The system allowed community to participate to report the AI cases. The project was piloted in Bantul District, Yogyakarta, specifically in the two sub-districts, i.e Sanden and Srandakan.

The Communication and Information Systems for the Control of Avian Influenza successfully conducted the final systems simulation and testing in Thai Nguyen Province, VietNam on 27 June 2011 to 03 July 2011. This activity was aimed to simulate and test various wireless technologies including the duplicated Advance Wireless Military Technologies such the Portable Mobile Satellite, Mobile WiMAX Technology and Balloon Wireless Mesh Technology, simulate and test the Avian Influenza Information Management Systems, including the Integrated Web GIS, Mobile Reporting using J2ME application, Video Conference application and to measures and exercises the preparedness of CISCAI team to deploy the integrated systems in order to support the national effort during the avian influenza outbreak.