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Healthy Futures for APEC Megacities
(under Megacities
Projects)
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Background:
Megacities are major urban areas that,
by sheer size and potential, are centers of economic and political life
and significant shapers of a nation’s culture and economy. Many
such megacities in APEC have mega-problems, developing in ways that raise
critical issues of health, well-being and sustainability. The World Health
Organization (WHO) recognises, in its program on “Healthy Cities”, that
a healthy city requires balance in and among the “physical, emotional,
mental, and spiritual” aspects of life. Achieving this balance is
a systemic issue, and especially complex at megacity level, requiring
all relevant sectors to work together towards common goals.
To tackle this complex subject, the project used the foresight methodology
of scenario-planning.
Objective:
To explore issues that are critical to the future of megacities
in APEC, and identify policy approaches and positive interventions towards
their healthy development.
Project Outline:
Event/ ActivityRemarks Discussion
paper (MS-Word Document)
| Event/ Activity |
Remarks |
| Discussion paper
October 1999 |
To set a framework for the study and stimulate
discussion
This has been prepared by the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA,
and the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, USA. |
| Exchange of ideas and information with experts
from APEC and from relevant global organisations
November 1999December 1999 |
To finalize the project goals and procedures,
and identify appropriate participants. |
| Core Experts’ Meeting
Thailand, February 2000 |
Exchange of ideas and information, to elaborate
on concepts and work towards the creation of alternative scenarios of
megacities in the year 2020 |
| Preparation for Experts’ Meeting
February-May 2000 |
Refining scenarios, finalising an Issues
Paper and involving further experts. |
| Experts Meeting
Bangkok, Thailand May 2000 |
To discuss issues, and work with scenarios
to draw out policy implications, and identify future actions. |
| Report Finalization
June - September 2000 |
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| Promotion of Project Outcomes throughout
APEC |
Follow-up meetings in member economies wherever
possible |
Core Experts’ Meeting: 2-3 February 2000
Purpose:
Elaboration of concepts, identification of
issues, preliminary development of scenarios, identification of further
participants for the wider Experts’ Meeting
No. of participants: 10
(organisers and some invited experts)
Outcome:Draft scenarios
developed and key issues identified
APEC-wide Experts Meeting: 29th
31st May 2000
Purpose:
Discussion of issues, and working with scenarios
to draw out implications for policy, strategy and the need for further
research across APEC.
Participants Preparatory Work:
to propose 3 to 5 issues critical to the development
of megacities over the next 20 years, and to consider the Issues Paper
and other discussion papers offered by participants.
Expected No. of participants: 54 (46
Experts from 10 APEC member economies, plus W.H.O. and U.N.)
Facilitator:
Professor Ron Johnston, Executive Director
of the Australian Centre for Innovation and International Competitiveness,
University of Sydney, Australia.
Outcome: Final
Reports Published December 2000
Organisers:
The APEC Technology Foresight Center
The APEC Center
for Technology Foresight is a center established and supported by APEC,
through active cooperation of Thailand and other APEC member economies.
It is hosted by Thailand’s National Science & Technology Development
Agency (NSTDA). The Center aims to promote the adoption of technology
foresight across APEC member economies and to carry out foresight research.
Foresight is defined as “systematic attempts to look into the longer-term
future of science, technology, economy and society, with a view to identifying
emerging generic technologies and the underpinning areas of strategic
research likely to yield the greatest economic, environmental and social
benefits.”
Contact:
Ms Tamsin Jewell,
Email: tamsin@nstda.or.th
Policy Researcher, APEC Technology Foresight Center,
NSTDA, 73/1 Rama VI Road, Rajadhevee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Tel:
662 644 8150 x706 Fax: 662 644 8194 URL:
http://www.nstda.or.th
The Kenan Institute
The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private
Enterprise, an affiliate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, encourages
cooperation among business, academia and government to foster private-sector
development and to utilize the private sector to serve the public interest
in the United States and worldwide. The Kenan Institute develops innovative
public-private and private-private partnerships that build the capacity
of people, business and communities to prosper in market-based environments.
These programs are anchored in research that provides the basis for replicating
and extending these outreach programs nationally and internationally.
Contact:
Dr
John D. Kasarda Email: john_kasarda@unc.edu
Director and Kenan Professor
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3440, USA
Tel: 919-962-8201 Fax: 919-962-8202
URL: http://www.bschool.unc.edu/infocenters/kenan_institute.html
CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Services. CDC’s mission is to promote health
and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and
disability. CDC aims to base all public health decisions on
the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived and
to place the benefits to society above the benefits to the institution.
Contact:
Dr Melinda Moore
Email: mmoore@osophs.dhhs.gov
Associate Director for Global Health [and Acting
Director, Div. Of Emergency and Environmental Health Services], National
Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), 4770 Buford Highway N.E., MS F-29, Atlanta GA
USA 30341 Tel: 770-488-7231 Fax: 770-488-7742
Dr. Moore has moved posts, and can now be contracted
at moore@osophs.dhhs.gov.
To contact CDC, try Dr. Bill Terry at wbt@cdc.gov.
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/
Consultant:
Professor Ron Johnston is one of Australia's
leading analysts of change. Over the past fifteen years he has mapped
and publicised the forces of change emerging from new technologies, changing
patterns of international competitiveness and trade, new organisational
structures, and shifts in social values. Prof Johnston led the major
Australian national foresight study on ‘Matching S&T to Future Needs’,
and has conducted other foresight projects on issues as diverse as research
planning for Antarctica, design of new urban environments and the future
of higher education. Internationally, he has been employed by or,
carried out major contracts for UNESCO, UNIDO, UNDP, the World Bank, OECD,
the EC, ASEAN and for over 15 national governments. Prof Johnston has
extensive experience and expertise in scenario-planning.
Contact:
Prof
Ron Johnston Email: rj@aciic.eng.usyd.edu.au
Executive Director, Australian Centre for Innovation
& International Competitiveness Ltd (ACIIC), Faculty of Engineering,
University of Sydney NSW 2006 Tel: (02)
9351 3934 Fax: (02) 9351 3974
URL: http://www.aciic.org.au
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