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Depart-ment), Oktorialdi(Head of Data and Information Center of Development Planning, National Devel-opment Planning Agency), Ten Yuriy(Deputy Head of state Committee of the Republic Uzbek-istan for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre), Sar Sovann(Director of Land Management and Administration Project Ministry of Land Management), Mustafa Firat(Head of Strategy Developing Department, Ministry of Transportation and Communication), Linda SD Papa(National Mapping and Resource Informa-tion Authority), Le Minh Tam(Department of Sur-vey and Mapping, Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment), etc.
■Presentations
1. National GIS Initiatives in the United States - Christopher Ellis(Professor, Texas A&M
Uni-versity)
2. The National GI Policy of Britain
- Andrew Evans(Professor, University of Leeds) 3. Spatial Information Society
- Ryosuke Shibasaki(Professor, Tokyo Univer-sity)
4. Current Situation and Problems of Mongolian GIS - Tserensangi Dashzevge(Ministry of
Construc-tion and Urban Development)
5. National GIS policy of the Islamic Republic of IRAN
- Reza Ahmadyieh(Head of Topographic Data-base Section/GIS Department)
6. Creation of Geographical Information System in the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Ten Yuriy(Deputy Head of state Committee of the Republic Uzbekistan for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre)
■Objective
The Geospatial Information Center of KRIHS held the GIS KOREA 2006 on May 17 through 19 at the Korea Convention and Exhibition Center. The meeting was organized to explore strategies to handle the paradigm shift in the GIS in response to the Ubiquitous Era. It was also intended to publicize innovative GIS projects, and provide directions to the national GIS policy in the future.
A couple of affiliated meetings of case study pre-sentations and prepre-sentations of innovative ideas concerning GIS application were also held in order to widen the base for GIS application.
■Brief Summary
Experts from the UK, US and Japan, and high-level public officials from some ten South East and Middle East Asian nations participated in the conference along with the President of KRIHS, Minister of Construction and Transportation and President of Korea Land Corporation.
The conference was composed of several
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As part of the(20-month-long research) project (launched in 2005), KRIHS invited in September a total of 15 government officials from Egypt, and provided a training program, ‘Land Development and Management'. The program was organized to provide education on land and territorial policy of Korea so that Egypt can learn lessons from it for development and management of land in Egypt.
The leader of the Egyptian counterpart on the Korea-Egypt joint project, Dr. Fahima, and other participants from the General Organization for Physical Planning, central government, and regional government of Assiut, one of the project sites, heard six specialized lectures on territorial and land policies of Korea. The lectures were fol-lowed by visits to related organizations and places including Bundang and Songdo new
towns, exemplary sites of new town development of Korea. They also visited Jeonju City to learn about the application of new GIS technologies to land administration.
During the course, the participants visited Korea's traditional and historical places of Jeonju villages of Korean traditional houses and Seonam Buddhist Temple, and had chances to experience history and culture of Korea as well. They also visited major industrial facilities of Korea includ-ing POSCO and Hyundai Heavy Industries, learn-ing current growth engines of economic develop-ment of Korea.
The training program, lasted 13 days, is expected to contribute to the effort of effectively developing land in Egypt, as well as facilitate the Korea-Egypt joint project currently under progress.
■Participants
From Korea :
Byung-Jik Choo(Minister, Ministry of Construc-tion & TransportaConstruc-tion), Byung-Sun Choe(Presi-dent, KRIHS), Jae-Hyun Kim(PresiChoe(Presi-dent, Korea Land Corporation), etc.
From Overseas :
Christopher Ellis(Professor, Texas A&M Universi-ty), Andrew Evans(Professor, University of Leeds), Ryosuke Shibasakii(Professor, Tokyo University), Tserensangi Dashzevge(Ministry of Construction and Urban Development), Reza Ahmadyieh(Head
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■Date : May 17~19, 2006 ■Venue : KOEX
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(Professor, Gwangju University), Jim Diers(Profes-sor, University of Washington), Matthew Car-mona(Head of the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL), Dong-Ju Kim(Director, Presidential Com-mittee on Balanced National Development), Byeong-Kwon You(Director of Regional Develop-ment Policy Division, Ministry of Construction &
Transportation), Sang-Il Lee(Editor of Seoul Sin-mun), Hee-Yun Hwang(Professor, Chungbuk National University), Jae-Gil Park(Director of Urban & Regional Planning Research Division, KRIHS), Jang Hwan Seong(Senior Researcher, Land & Urban Research Institute), Dong-Ju Lee(Director of Globalization Promoting Division, Cheongju City Hall), Eun-Hee Kim(Director, Urban Action Network), Sei-Yong Kim(Professor, Korea University), Sang-Wook Ahn(Urban affair Team Manager, Innovation Policy Division of Korean National Housing Corporation), Suk-Whan Ahn(Deputy Director of Urban Policy Divi-sion, Minister of Construction & Transportation), Hyo-Jeong Kim(Researcher, Korea Culture &
Tourism Policy Institute)
■Presentations
1. The Development and the Significance of Machizukuri for Making Livable Cities in Japan - Hayashi Yasuyoshi(Board Member, NPO Tamagawa Machizukuri(Community Design House), Koizumi Hideki(Professor, University of Tokyo)
2. The Case of Participatory Community Making and Its Development Methods in Korea
- Myeong Gyoo Lee(Professor, Gwangju University)
3. Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods : Empow-ering Communities to Make a Livable City - Jim Diers(Professor, University of Washington) 4. Spatial Planning by Design
- Matthew Carmona(Head of the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL)
■Objective
In order to build up the relatively deficient expe-rience and information about Livable City Mak-ing, it has held many panel discussion about the issue of Livable City Making hosted by institutes or citizen groups. Unfortunately, its definitions are different by each researcher and their discus-sion is superficial so that it has been requesting the consensus on basic direction and principle of Livable City Making.
At this time it has value to have a certain sug-gestion by Japanese, Korean, American, and Eng-lish experts who have studied the similar case of developed foreign countries experienced urban-ization process and urban problem. Furthermore, it is valuable to explore the political solution by discussion upon Livable City Making's backdrops, concerns, results, and future tasks produced through field experiences of Livable City Making.
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meetings of Innovative GIS Contest, Conference on National GIS Strategies, GIS Symposiums and New Technology Presentations. First of all, case studies on GIS innovation and innovative ideas were presented at the Innovative GIS Contest. The contest was organized exclusively by KRIHS, and divided into two categories; GIS application in the public sector including central government agencies, local governments, state-run corpora-tions and research institutes, and GIS application ideas among college and graduate school stu-dents.
At the Conference on National GIS Strategies, national strategies for the GIS of advanced coun-tries of the US, UK and Japan were presented fol-lowed by discussions. The strategies of develop-ing countries such as Mongolia, Iran and Viet-nam were also presented. Symposiums and pre-sentation sessions were included in the confer-ence to introduce new GIS technologies and the
integration of Ubiquitous with the GIS. During the meeting, exhibitions were also held at the request of businesses, public organizations and universities.
■Policy Implications
The conference demonstrated that a lot of nations from different backgrounds were interested in the GIS strategies of Korea. In particular, developing countries in South East Asia, which have just started introducing the GIS in recent years, expressed amazement at the remarkable develop-ment of Korea's GIS in a short period. Meanwhile, companies involved in the GIS business tried to take advantage of the meeting as an opportunity to make inroads into South East Asian markets.
Lastly, the conference provided a venue for pub-lic agencies and students to demonstrate, utilizing the meeting to publicize their accomplishments and ideas, their passion and interest in the GIS.
■Participants
Byung-Sun Choe(President, KRIHS), Byung-Gee Kang(Representative, Urban Action Network), Keewon Hwang(Professor, Seoul National
Univer-sity), Young-Hwan Jin(Director of Center for Urban Innovation, KRIHS), Hayashi Yasuyoshi (Board Member, NPO Tamagawa Machizukuri (Community Design House), Koizumi
Hideki(Pro->> International Seminar on Livable City Making : International Perspectives
살기 좋은 도시만들기 국제세미나
■Date : June 15~16, 2006 ■Venue : Yuksam Building, KRIHS
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Third, the approach, in terms of livable city making, would be needed to harmonize between the community development and the comprehen-sive development direction.
Finally, in order to raise the residents' partic-ipation and stakeholders' conscious level, internal education and efforts should be embedded.
The Livable City Making can be considered as
the stage which is making efforts to hold its posi-tion on new paradigm in city policy and plan-ning, and to develop heading to citizen act. Keep-ing in mind the comments suggested before, when the endeavor related with Livable City Making is kept, the city environmental quality can be felt by each resident themselves, and fur-ther it can give opportunities to promote civil sustainability and competitiveness.
■Participants
Byung-Jik Choo(Minister, Ministry of Construction
& Transportation), Kyong-Ryung Seong(Chair, Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development), Byung-Sun Choe(President, KRIHS), Sukchan Ko(Professor, Dankook University), Hai-Kyung Shin(Editor, JoongAng Ilbo), Sun-Ah Kim(Representative, Sun-Ah Kim Studio), Gi-Beom Nam(Professor, University of Seoul), Hyung-Jin Park(Director, Research Center for Balanced National Development, Korea Institute for Indus-trial Economics and Trade), Sam-Ock Park(Pro-fessor, Seoul National University), Young-Hwan Jin(Director of Center for Urban Innovation, KRIHS), Dong-Ju Kim(Director, Presidential
Com-mittee on National Balanced Development), Chae-Gyu Kim(Director, Innovation City Construction Division, Public Agencies Relocation Office, Min-istry of Construction and Transportation)
■Presentations
1. Smart Places for Smart People : Making Regions Innovative in the 21st Century - Michael Luger(Professor, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2. Case of Research Triangle Park, U.S.A : “The Case of Research Triangle(NC) as an Innovative Region"
- Robert McMahan(Executive Director, Office of Science and Technology)
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■Date : June 20~21, 2006 ■Venue : Lotte Hotel, KRIHS
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■Brief Summary
1) The First Theme(Japan) : The Development