The Chief Information Officers (CIO) Forum (formerly known as the CIO Conference) is a platform to gather senior IT leaders and administrators in APRU member universities to build human interaction and a network of APRU ICT leaders to share best practices and solutions, as well as to explore opportunities for multilateral partnerships and collaborative projects among the information technology community in APRU.

See links below for messages from Dr Donald Harris, Chairman of the APRU IT Initiatives Standing Committee.

- Letter to CIOs (May 2009)
- Letter to CIOs (November 2009)

Read about the latest status report on APRU IT Iniatives here.

APRU has launched a series of video conference sessions with topics and themes based on APRU CIOs’ topics of interest.  An objective is to exchange and gain knowledge and expertise, share best practices and explore areas of inter-institutional collaboration in middleware, cyberinfrastructure, multimedia and applicable advanced technologies in support of teaching and research amongst APRU member universities.

• Video Conference Sessions

• Video Conference Member University Participants
  
  

Past Conferences:

2^nd Chief Information Officers Conference
Hosted by: University of Indonesia
Date: April 16 - 19, 2008

• Presentations
• Survey results on demographics and top 3 collaborative interests, challenges and initiatives of participating members

1^st Chief Information Officers Conference
Hosted by: University of Southern California
Date: March 21 - 23, 2007