The agreement spans a range of areas of common interest, including human resource development, information infrastructure, technology development, best practices and compatibility. It also calls for an annual China-ASEAN Information and Communications Technology Seminar.

The ASEAN nations are looking to deepen their own cooperation on ICT, and last week signed an agreement that will eventually bind them together in a political-security, economic and socio-cultural community similar to the European Union.

This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.