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  • GDPC Academy: Global Smart Cooperation Strategy in the Digital Transformation Era

    GDPC Academy: Global Smart Cooperation Strategy in the Digital Transformation Era Date: July 26, 2023 Venue: KRIHS, Sejong, Korea On July 26, at 3:00 PM, the GDPC hosted a special lecture by Professor Kim Young-sik from the United Nations University (UNU). Professor Kim delivered a lecture on the theme of "Global Smart Cooperation Strategy in the Digital Transformation Era." Professor Kim, with 12 years of experience as a member of the KOICA Volunteer Corps, has actively supported e-governance initiatives in various developing countries. Currently affiliated with United Nations University (UNU) electronic governance (UNU-EGOV), he engages in collaborative efforts with numerous government agencies and international organizations, conducting research and projects related to e-governance. Throughout his lecture, Professor Kim underscored the critical importance of identifying global demand and fostering the development of capacities at the individual, national, and institutional levels to enable effective cooperation. He also emphasized the importance of networking in creating opportunities for knowledge sharing and collaboration, saying that platforms such as LinkedIn should be actively utilized.

  • The 7th KRIHS-IDB Urban Development Academy Small Private Online Couse Live Session

    The 7th KRIHS-IDB Urban Development Academy Small Private Online Couse Live Session Date: May 23 ~July 20, 2023 Venue: Small Private Online Course @ INDES run by Inter-American Development Bank On August 17, 2023, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held the final session of the seventh KRIHS–IDB Urban Development Academy Small Private Online Course. This course was held on May 23–July 20, 2023, and was participated in by 31 public officials from nine countries. At the beginning of the final session, Veronica Adler, the principal specialist of IDB, delivered remarks highlighting the importance of capacity-building programs for urban development in Latin American and Caribbean countries. She also expressed her appreciation for the continued work of the program officers and participants despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Nine institutions presented their respective project proposals along with their countries’ specific backgrounds and their expected achievements through the project. In particular, Colombia and Panama proposed projects focused on transportation, and Costa Rica showed interest in institutional improvements for urban regeneration. Colombia and El Salvador showed that land policies and projects related to securing housing sites could be intensively promoted, even at present. As a subsequent action, KRIHS and IDB will look for feasible projects that can be implemented in the countries that presented, based on their proposals.

  • KRIHS-WB expert roundtable: “Strategy for Cultural Heritages to Respond to Climate Change..."

    KRIHS and World Bank’s expert roundtable for joint research: “Strategy for Cultural Heritages to Respond to Climate Change for Sustainable Development” Date: June 26 (Mon), 2023 Venue: Online The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) and the World Bank held an expert roundtable on Tuesday, May 16, at 9 PM to share the results of joint research on “Strategy for Cultural Heritages to Respond to Climate Change for Sustainable Development” and to collect expert opinions. At the event, researchers participated from KRIHS, including Research Fellow Jeong Yun-hee and Korean side consultants Professor Kim Young-jae (Korea National University of Cultural Heritage), Researcher Kim Do-hyeong (Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation), Professor Song Won-seop (Chonbuk National University), and Researcher Kim Ji-su (National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage), as well as World Bank officials, including Sector Leader Ahmed Eiweida (World Bank), and officials from international organizations such as UNESCO, UNWTO, and ICOMOS. At the event, which began with a welcome speech by Research Fellow Jeong Yun-hee, Korean side consultants presented research results on climate change response strategies in South Korea’s tourism and cultural heritage sectors for sustainable tourism. Presenters introduced respective cases of South Korea’s national policies on climate change responses in the tourism and cultural heritage sectors addressed in the joint research and climate change response strategies in individual cities such as Seoul, Suwon, and Jeju. In the discussion that followed, led by Sector Leader Ahmed Eiweida, experts from international organizations, including Barbara Minguez Garcia (UNESCO), Lorena Villar (UNWTO), and Gabriel Caballero (ICOMOS), shared their opinions on the joint research. The experts generally asserted that the cases from South Korea could provide a useful solution to the tourism sector in developing countries suffering from climate change. KRIHS and the World Bank plan to hold the Technical Deep Dive (TDD), a knowledge-sharing session for developing country policymakers, in June to disseminate research results and strengthen the policy capacity of developing countries’ policymakers.

  • KRIHS-GDSL: Geospatial Data Science Knowledge Exchange Seminar

    KRIHS-GDSL: Geospatial Data Science Knowledge Exchange Seminar Date: June 7 (Wed) ~ 9 (Fri), 2023 Venue: KRIHS, Sejong, Korea The KRIHS Data Lab and the Geographic Data Science Lab (GDSL) at the University of Liverpool in the UK organized a serial knowledge exchange seminar on Geospatial Data Sciences on June 8 (Thurs) at KRIHS and on June 9 (Fri) at the University of Seoul. The seminar, an action item of a UK government-funded international collaborative research project between KRIHS and the GDSL, addressed various topics on the theme of “Geospatial Data Sciences for future cities and society: focusing on analysis of digital footprint data.” During the first seminar at KRIHS, Prof. Daniel Arribas-Bel of the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool and the Urban Analytics Center of the Alan Turing Institute made a presentation about Urban Grammar, a project using data science and machine learning to build a detailed, consistent, and scalable characterization of urban form and function in Britain. Other members of the GDSL and KRIHS Data Lab, as well as data scientists from Korea National University of Transportation and Inha University, discussed a range of new methods to analyze urban spatial structures with new types of digital footprint data. The second seminar at the University of Seoul dealt with novel and interesting ideas covering Chat GPT, urban data sensors, smartphone-based voluntary geographic datasets, etc. Prof. Alex Singleton showed new approaches to improving consumer data research by integrating Chat GPT. Including Prof. Mingyu Kang, the other participants showcased what kinds of digital footprint data have been cumulated without our notice and how they can help us understand the post effects of COVID-19, changes in human mobility patterns, and regional-scale distribution of traffic-related air pollutants.

  • Second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly: Korea National Urban Policy Program (NUPP)

    Second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly: Korea National Urban Policy Program (NUPP) Side Event Date: June 5 (Mon), 2023 Venue: Headquarters of the UN Habitat Secretariat, Nairobi, Kenya The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly took place from June 5 to June 9, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. On the first day of the Assembly, a side event on the Korea National Urban Policy Program (NUPP) was held. This event brought together government representatives and partners from the Republic of Korea, including Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), and Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), as well as ministerial delegates from the eight participating countries. Additionally, the attendees included colleagues from UN agencies and representatives from non-participating countries, the private sector, and academia, all interested in the Korea NUPP. The primary goal of the event was to demonstrate how multilateral governance through the NUPP is positively impacting lives. Representing KRIHS, Ms. Youn Hee Jeong (Research Fellow) provided an additional perspective on promoting ownership and leadership within the Korea NUPP framework. Her speech encouraged participants to invest in people and underscored the importance of enhancing their capabilities.

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