SIU’s latest publication, Agenda Bangkok: 10 Bangkok Future Policies. This is the outcome of our 2012 year long projects “Agenda Bangkok”.
The goal of the project is to encourage a better way for public policy of Bangkok Metropolitan Area. We intentionally prepare this work in schedule with the 2013 Bangkok Governor election and propose our works to many (if not all) candidates as possible.
Methodology
We collected and gathered feedback from experienced Bangkok policy stakeholders and three workshops during the year. All the information were processed using foresight technique and summarized into “10 future issues” that Bangkokians should care.
Five experts who used to/still work on Bangkok policy issues:
Prateep Ungsongtham Hata (page 3), an NGO who won Magsaysay Award on development policy.
Apirak Kosayodhin (page 4), ex-Bangkok governor, now a MP from Democrat Party.
Narongsak Poomsrisa-ard (page 5), an executive from CP-ALL Company, the owner of 7-11 convenient store chain.
Kochawan Kemaprasit (page 6), an adviser of Private Bangkok Bus Service Association.
Prapas Jongsanguan (page 7), the first governor of MRT, he was a Bangkok governor candidate as well.
All the idea from workshops are scored and broken into five sections.
Social
Technology
Economy
Environment
Politics
We got 10 future trends of Bangkok City, which you can read them from page 8:
Sex In The City
Next Generation Labor
Bangkok Identity
Art For All
Emerging Crime
Inclusive Space
Low Carbon Society
AEC Megacities
Emerging Rights
360 Degree Leadership
It can be categorized into 4 groups (page 9)
ASEANization = urbanization of Bangkok + labour migration + AEC community + ageing society
The Big Mango = (similarly to NYC’s Big Apple) Bangkok is Big Mango, center of everything: culture, life, jobs, race, crime from around the world
Emerald City = Climate Change will force Bangkok to be Low Carbon Society, utilizing the “space” (physical/mental/cyber) to serve its residents, led by 360 degree leaderships
Our Road = the challenge of Bangkok to become “City of Art” depends on new liberal generation but they are in conflict with the conservative power that has ruled Bangkok for ages.
See more at: http://www.slideshare.net/markpeak/agenda-bangkok