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The 5th International Conference on Multi-National Joint Ventures for Construction Works

The conference started with two keynote speeches. International lawyer Mr. Gordon L. Jaynes firstly addressed the perils of joint ventures in construction from the point of view of construction law. Another Keynote speaker, Prof. Graham Winch provided a conceptual framework for understanding all the transactions within the project coalition in construction joint ventures. 

More than 120 participants, who came from Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, Iran, Australia, UK, USA and Japan, exchanged opinions related to the management of multi-national joint ventures for construction works from the point of view of project scheme, dispute resolution, project management, project governance and Public Private Partnership (PPP). 

All the papers presented during this seminar are included in the seminar’s proceedings titled “Collaborative Efforts in International Construction Management-Part Two 5th International Conference on Multi-national Joint Ventures for Construction Works”. The next conference will be held in 2010 in Kyoto, Japan.

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The 1st International Workshop on water supply management system and social capital

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The First Workshop on Water Supply Management System and Social Capital organized by Kyoto University Global COE Program ”Global Centre for Education and Research on Human Security Engineering for Asian Megacities in collaboration with Institute Technology Bandung (ITB) and University of Brawijaya (UB) was held in ITB, Indonesia on March 20th ,2009.

The Workshop started at 09:00 am with opening remarks by Prof. Indratmo Soekarno, Vice President of ITB for Research, Innovation and Partnership. He emphasized on water issues such as the consequence of low water tarrif  to people, i.e; causing unawareness of the importance of water value and unhealthy financial situation for PDAM (local drinking water enterprise). In the end, he expressed his hope that the Workshop would enable participants to formulate deeper research collaborations to develop appropriate innovations in solving water problems in Asian mega cities.

The event continued with keynote speech entitled Trust by Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi (Chairman of the Workshop on behalf of Kyoto University Global COE Program).  The speech was followed by Q&A session from graduate students and lecturers of the City and Regional Planning Department and they were generally interested on how to apply the theoretical model onto real world problems.

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The Workshop ended with closing remarks by Prof. Kobayashi in which he emphasized on  future research collaboration using three approaches (theoretical-emperical-prescriptive research) and planning to hold second Workshop on Water Supply Management system and Social Capital on February 2010 at ITS Surabaya, Indonesia.

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International Industry-academic Cooperation Seminar on Asset Management System

・     Cooperation for developing advanced pavement management system

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THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON WATER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SOCIAL CAPITAL

THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON  WATER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SOCIAL CAPITAL


Theme
 Overview and Perspective of Water Supply Management System and Social Capital Assessment


Venue: Institute Technology of Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

Date: March 20, 2009

Organized by:
Kyoto University Global COE Program
“Global Center for Education and Research on Human Security Engineering for Asian Megacities”

In collaboration with:
Institute Technology of Bandung (ITB) and University of Brawijaya

The deadline for paper submission is
February 17^th, 2009

 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE
Water is definitely the base for sustainable societies. Limited access to water is commonly acknowledged that water problems affect the poor adversely in terms of their ‘livelihoods’, ‘health’, and ‘vulnerability’. However, despite improved water resources management all over the world in the last couple decades, there are still about 1.4 billion people without an adequate supply of drinking water and about 3 billion people without adequate sanitation services.  In order to actualize sustainable community welfare development in the rapid growth Asian region, it is necessary to secure inherent of relations between actors and among actors of water system with an appropriate institutional social structure. In this circumstance, social capital is catching the attention as a methodology for developing and strengthening an enormous amount of social structures in Asian countries. However, practitioners and researchers in the Asian region never held a meeting to discuss the current situation of social capital on water usage in Asian countries. The representatives of each Asian country are requested to formalize in writing the following topics:
1.        Social Structure & Institution in Community
2.        Water Policy & Organization Agency
3.        Community Managed Water System
4.        Sustainable Water Management
5.        Water Usage Model
6.        Future Perspective   

OBJECTIVES
Key objectives of the seminar are:
・　To seize current situation and perspectives of each country
・　To explore the complexity of water usage as priceless social capital
・　To discuss new concepts and paradigms in water resources management and sustainable development schemes
In addition, this seminar will be utilized as the opportunity to glean basic information for
(1) extracting political and technical problems regarding social capital on water usage in each country and
(2) finding common issues in the entire Asian region, through the comparative analysis among three countries. 

LANGUAGE
The official language of the seminar is English.   

PAPER
Authors are invited to submit full paper, relating to the conference themes. The paper should be written in English (in MS word format only) All papers should be structured as follows:
・　Title : The title should be short, preferably less than 15 words.
・　Author(s) : Provide contact details for the authors including names, surnames, organization/company, phone/fax no., e-mail and full postal address. ・　     -    Abstracts :Provide a short summary the whole content of  paper 
・　Keywords : Provide up to 5 keywords.
・　Introduction : Short summary of relevant background and problem addressed.
・　Objectives : Define the “tangible and measurable” objectives of the work presented in the paper.
・　Methodology : Describe briefly the methodology that use to achieve the  objectives.
・　Results : Describe briefly the present & future perspectives.
      ・　Conclusion:Provide a short summary of the results   

Paper should be sent to the Organizing Committee by February 17^th, 2009 via e-mail to このメールアドレスはスパムボットから保護されています。閲覧するにはJavaScriptを有効にする必要があります。">hayeong@hse.gcoe.kyoto-u.ac.jp  

ORGANISING BODIES
The seminar is organized by Kyoto University Global COE Program KYOTO UNIVERSITY was founded in 1897, the second university to be established in Japan. Known for its pioneering spirits and academic freedom, the university has produced five Nobel laureates and two Fields medalists.  

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
CHAIRMAN
Prof. Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI (Kyoto University) 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Prof. Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI (Kyoto University)
Prof. B. KOMBAITAN (Institute Technology of Bandung)
Prof. Dr. Joni Hermana (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember)
Assoc. Prof. Kakuya MATSUSHIMA (Kyoto University)   

GENERAL SECRETARIAT CONTACT DETAILS
Dr, Eng. Hayeong JEONG
GCOE Researcher
Department of Urban Management,
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
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Address: Katura4 C-1-3 R182, Kyoto Uni.,Nisikyoku,Kyoto,615-8540,Japan
TEL： +81-75-383-3415
FAX： +81-75-383-3418 

LOCAL SECRETARIAT CONTACT DETAILS
Ibnu Syabri, BSc, PhD  (Institute Technology of Bandung)
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Fax    :+ 62-22-2504625 ext. 102

 TENTATIVE PROGRAM   March 20, 2009

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