The International iCollect Workshop : the intensive course for data curator of microbial resource centres (MRC) has been going during Sept 10-12, 2019 at BIOTEC, Thailand, under the ASEAN-ASTIF project entitled "The establishment of an ASEAN Microbial Database". The aim is to enhance the data management capability to researchers and MRCs in ASEAN . Participants from Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines and Thailand join the workshop and contribute their data to ASEAN microbial database called AmiBase (https://www.amibase.org) which is the microbial data infrastructure for ASEAN. Moving forward with ASEAN and be greater together!