Purpose To establish a plan to support developing countries by building development partnership and performing consulting services
Participants Legislation of national territory-related laws, establishment of policies, and planning business implementation
Period 3- to 6-week customized programs (GDPC's own and/or commissioned training programs) Composition Consulting on development and policy (project implementation, seminars, workshops, exploratory visits, institution visits, etc.)
Major Activities
Joint consulting for development with multilateral development banks (MDBs) such as the IDB, WB, etc.
• Planning and implementing IDB-KSP Joint Activities for Sustainable Emerging Cities Initiatives
• Under the process of co-tasking with the WB for regional development in Colombia, Vietnam, etc.
Policy consulting conducted for 42 persons from eight countries including Vietnam, Thailand, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, etc.
• Consulting on urban development, land management, housing funding, and regional development for Vietnam and Thailand
• Consulting on national territorial policy and geographic information system (GIS) for Kazakhstan
• Consulting on urban and regional development policy for China
• Consulting on institutional operations for Japan Consulting
Date Name of Consulting Recipients
March 25 Policy Advisory Program for the Delegation of Japan’s International Centre for the Study of East
Asian Development (ICSEAD) 4 officials from Japan
June 7 National Territorial Planning and Development Advisory Program for the Delegation of Thai Officials
and Ombudsmen 7 officials and an ombudsman
from Thailand June 11 ~ 16 Advisory Program on Urban Development Policy for Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction (MOC) 8 officials from Vietnam June 13 ~ 17 Land Administration Policy Advisory Program for the Delegation of Vietnam’s General Department
of Land Administration (GDLA) 6 officials from Vietnam
June 13 ~ 17 National Territory and Land Policy Advisory Program for the Delegation of Kazakhstan’s
KazRPEIECA RSE 3 officials from Kazakhstan
Sept. 15
Jan. 31, 2012~ IDB-KSP Joint Activities for the Sustainable Emerging Cities Initiatives Project Santa Ana (El Salvador), Montevideo (Uruguay), and Goiania (Brazil) Sept. 20 IESD (Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development)-KRIHS Seminar on Green City 3 officials from Vietnam
Oct. 17 Policy Advisory Program for the Delegation of the Development Research Center (DRC) of the
State Council of China 6 officials from China
Dec. 5 ~ 9 Social Housing Development Policy Advisory Program for the Delegation of Vietnam’s Ministry of
Construction (MOC) 5 officials from Vietnam
Dec. 8 IDB-KSP Workshop : Accelerating Broadband Connectivity and Its Applications to Three Sustainable Emerging Cities : Santa Ana, Montevideo, and Goiania
II -1. IDB-KSP Joint Activities for the Sustainable Emerging Cities Initiatives Project
IDB-KSP 지속가능한 신흥도시 플랫폼 설계 및 시행사업
Task Name IDB-KSP Joint Activities for Sustainable Emerging Cities Initiative Project:
Consulting service for surveying ICT facts and figures and writing an analysis report on the three cities in Mid- and South America
Period Sept. 15, 2011 ~ Jan. 31, 2012
Funded by Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea EximBank) Research Faculty KRIHS, GDPC, and JT Corporation
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been implementing technology cooperation in order to diagnose urban problems and est-ablish urban development plans targeting emer-ging cities in Mid- and South America, so that the countries may achieve sustainable pros-perity in the long run through balanced environ-mental development, infrastructure, and fin-ance areas. Regarding these matters, the IDB and the Korean government have shared the recognition of the importance of the inform-ation communicinform-ations technology (ICT) dev-elopment among the devdev-elopment areas for achieving sustainable prosperity of emerging cities in Mid- and South America.
Due to such mutual recognition, the IDB and the Korean government have agreed to pro-mote a joint consulting Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) project, in order to share the ICT utilization cases in the urban development areas of Korea with the countries in Mid- and South America. Specifically, while KRIHS implements the consulting business for the three cities in Mid- and South America jointly with the IDB, it was agreed that a project of delivering Korea's development experience in ICT and utilization cases on urban development is promoted.
The major businesses are to analyze the facts and figures of ICT in three pilot emerging cities, Santa Ana (El Salvador), Montevideo (Uruguay), Goiania (Brazil)) in Mid- and South America; and based on the results, to establish action plans and relevant policy suggestions. .
The KSP of the IDB for the sustainable emerging cities initiatives was established for the purpose of minimizing the problems of small cities in Mid- and South America, which has been caused by rapid urbanization, and also to avoid the repetition of negative effects that mega cities have produced.
This research was a part of the KSP project and the purpose was to evaluate the ICT status of three pilot cities for sustainable development utilizing ICT, establish policy suggestions, and derive action plans. Specifically, Chapter 1 analyzed the importance of ICT for the urban development of emerging countries, current developmental state of each country, and the developmental gap between countries. This research also explained the necessity for ICT development though the explanation of the influence of ICT development on the economic growth of emerging countries and its cor-relation with sustainable urban development.
As for the research method, based on the
analysis results of ICT facts obtained from the three pilot cities and interviews that were conducted in the exploratory visits to the cities, the primary analysis was done. For a more more detailed analysis, the ICT facts analysis table has been set, which contains two factors of supply and demand from a mechanism to enhance Internet broadband connectivity; four factors of transportation infrastructure, service, content, and users; eight characteristics; and 16 indices. With these factors and indices, the GDPC team compared the current state of the three cities. Moreover, based on a primary comparison analysis data and opinions collect-ed in the study tour, an action plan was est-ablished for each city.
Chapter 2 analyzed the social and economic aspects of each city in order to create an over-view of the overall city profile through which the GDPC team was able to deduce the prob-lems faced. Also, ICT facts and figures were analyzed through16 indices. As for the annual investment for telecommunications service, Brazil and Korea showed high scores while El Salvador and Uruguay recorded low scores.
Regarding the profits earned from telecommu-nications services, Brazil and Korea were also the dominant countries. As for the number of wired phone subscribers per 100 persons, Korea showed a far dominant result.
On the other hand, as for the number of wireless subscribers, similar results were sho-wn in almost every country, which was a rela-tively smaller gap. Korea is far outstanding in terms of broadband Internet speed and the number of subscribers, while the three cities maintained a similar level. Regarding the num-ber of employees working for the telecommu-nications business, Brazil showed high scores corresponding to their industry size, which showed relatively strong potential in the Inter-net market. Korea exhibited the highest score in terms of computer supply ratio per
house-hold. Uruguay and Montevideo also showed higher than average scores. As for the Internet fee per month, Korea, Brazil, El Sal-vador, and Uruguay all showed similar and proper levels.
Lastly, from the aspects of a higher education enrollment ratio and literacy in order to confirm the potential in terms of Internet market users, Korea, Uruguay, and Brazil all scored at a higher than proper level although there was a slight difference among them. In the last section of Chapter 2, the GDPC team suggested a com-prehensive analysis table, collecting all indices, in order to show each level by country and city so that the readers could see all the levels at a glance.
Chapters 3 and 4 suggested the major ICT issues, policy recommendations, and action plan by city based on the results of Chapter 2.
For Santa Ana, the GDPC team suggested three action plans. One was a design plan for optical cables that connect the city office with its nine affiliated institutions. The GDPC team suggested the WiMAX system for CCTV and Internet supply. The second one was a sug-gestion for a plan in to install CCTVs and its monitoring center for the prevention of crimes.
The third one was a plan to establish a tele-center to increase the Internet supply ratio, for which the GDPC team selected the five most suitable locations.
As for Montevideo in Uruguay, four action plans were suggested. One of them was the installation and extension of optical cables for the building infrastructure. It was designed for the purpose of connecting city offices with the affiliated institutions of the city. The GDPC team further suggested a backhaul and a back-bone network. The second one was the bus information system, which suggested a real-time information-providing system in order to utilize public transportation to the fullest. The third action plan was in regards to a transpor-tation management system for grasping the
transportation situation and to provide inform-ation to the citizens. For this purpose, the GDPC team designed and suggested a trans-portation information center, installation of CCTVs and traffic light controllers, VMS, etc.
The fourth was a business management sys-tem that could provide a more effective syssys-tem for decision-making for governmental insti-tutions, which includes the electronic govern-ment, etc.
For Goiania in Brazil, a total of six action plans were suggested. The GDPC team sug-gested a plan to extend the existing optical cable that is 134km long and a plan to build an integrated monitoring center for transportation, crime prevention, public transportation, etc.
Like Montevideo, the GDPC team suggested a bus information system, transportation man-agement system, and a business manman-agement system; and additionally a land information system so that an electronic document sys-tem, land administration support syssys-tem, spa-tial information management system, among others, could be designed in order to increase the effectiveness of land management and the administration system of the city government.