Events

Noviscape Consulting Group (NCG), supported by the Universities and Councils Network on Innovation for Inclusive Development (UNIID-SEA), will hold a Cross-national Survey on University and Research Council Roles on SEA Inclusive Development and Innovation this 2013. The survey will map out existing research and academic activities related to innovation for inclusive development. The survey will [...]

With increasing interests towards futures and trends, the 9th lecture series of Asian Future Forum was held on 19 December 2012 at Tipco Tower, Bangkok and Managing Director Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana was invited by Fiscal Policy Research Institute (FISPRI) to give a lecture on “Science, Technology and Innovation (STI): Global Trends and Thailand Adaptability”. Related [...]

Regional Conference on Asian Transport & Megacities 2012 On 14 December 2012, Managing Director Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana was invited to give a presentation on “Urban Transport and Megacities: Globalization and Connectivity in Asia” at Regional Conference on Asian Transport & Megacities held in Makati City, Manila, Philippines. Growth of rural cosmopolitanism, feminization of migration intensifies, [...]

10 Policy Trends for the Future of Bangkok aimed at raising new and emerging issues to Bangkok Governor candidates ahead of next election in February 2013 was presented to media by Managing Director Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana at Bangkok Agenda 2012 Press Release at Sasa International House, Chulalongkorn University on 12 December 2012. 10 Policy Trends [...]

As a result of 3-year project “Towards Innovative, Liveable, and Properous Asian Megacities,” Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana, Managing Director of Noviscape Consulting Group, presented “Foresight, Innovation Systems, and City: Past, Present and Future of Megacities in Southeast Asia” at Asialics International Conference in Manila, Philippines on October 4, 2012, in a bid to identify drivers, inhibitors, emerging [...]

Inspired by the first two workshops, various ideas, weak signals and emerging issues were extracted, categorized, named and developed into 10 Policy Trends for Bangkok, namely Sex in the City, Next Generation Labor, BKK Identity, Art for All, Emerging Crime, Inclusive Space, Low Carbon Society, AEC Megacities, Emerging Rights and 360 degree leaderships. The proposing [...]

In the second workshop, academicians were invited to join the bandwagon, exchange and share their ideas on how they would want Bangkok to be like and how Bangkok Governor and urbanites should do things differently to make the city more liveable, thus leading to a wide range of interesting discussions. The event was held at [...]

   Each year Thailand’s pineapple export is worth no less than 20 billion bahts, making its one of major exporters with 40% share in global market. However, the development in processing of pineapple products has been done in value-added manner and processing same product in the value chain, leading to unproductive price competition. Therefore, foresight [...]

As a part of a project determining long-term strategies for enhancing and sustaining Thailand’s environmental qualities in Phase 1, foresightand scenario building technique were selected to formulate “Visions and Scenarios of Thailand’s natural resources and environment in the next 20 years” based on weak signals which have high uncertainty but have potential to make impacts in [...]

In order to evade public debates during the next Bangkok Governor election in the early 2013, “Bangkok Agenda 2012” project aims to extract new ideas and approaches on how Bangkok should be directed from 3 groups of stakeholders: youth leaders, academicians and thought leaders. Ten ‘Bangkok Agenda’ will be proposed out of these three workshops [...]