The  resort sanctuary of Santika Hotel-Bali was center-stage for  the Inception Workshop of the ASEAN-ADB  Project on Strengthening Regional Coordination   in the Control and Eradication of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza  (HPAI) in ASEAN, which was held   from 3  to 5 March  2010.

The  Workshop was participated in by  around  40 delegates from various ASEAN Member States (AMSs) and dialogue  partners.  The two-man CISCAI-PCU team, headed by Dr. Jose Edgardo Aban, CISCAI Project Coordinator and Mr. Bambang Wijayanto, CISCAI Systems Administrator, participated in the  3-day meeting. This was the first time that the CISCAI-PCU had  formally touched base with the prominent group members of the ASEAN HPAI Taskforce.  A 15-minute presentation  on CISCAI was made by Dr. Aban on the second day  of the Workshop. Also, a CISCAI exhibit corner   was put on display for  the whole duration  of the  Workshop.

As the  outputs of   months’-long   efforts of technology development trickle in,  CISCAI and its in-country teams have recently initiated  information, education and communications (IEC) activities to effectively transfer  the various  developed technologies  among its stakeholders.  The first of such attempts  was   the conduct of the  “1st Training on the Use and Application of the CISCAI Geographic Information System  (GIS)”, held  at the headquarters of the  NetNam Corporation in Hanoi, Vietnam last 28 January 2010.