LASDO
Final
Seminar
Galadari
Hotel
Lotus road
Contents
1. Programme of the
Final Seminar
3. Mr Philippe BILLOT – general
project co-ordinator, APUR/City of Paris
4. Mr Emilio MARTINEZ-VIDAL,
project co-ordinator, City of Madrid
5. Mr shantha N.S JAYASUNDERA,
Deputy Municipal Commissioner, CMC
7. Dr P.S. KARIYAWASAM, Chief
medical officer of health, CMC
8. Mr Fabrice METEL, Local
co-ordinator, LASDO project
9. Mr Olivier TOUTAIN,
consultant, precarious housing expert
1. Programme of the Final Seminar
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9.00 |
Registration |
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9.30 |
Lighting of the traditional lamp, protocol
ceremony |
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10.00 |
Opening of the Seminar, by his Worship Mr Prasanna GUNAWARDENA, Mayor of |
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10.15 |
Mr Wouter L. WILTON, chargé d’affaires at the European delegation for |
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10.30 |
Mr
Gaël de MAISONNEUVE, Chargé d’affaires at
the French Embassy for |
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10.45 |
Coffee break |
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11.15 |
Project
presentation by the project partners’ representatives : Ø
Mr Shantha N.S JAYASUNDERA, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, CMC Ø
Mr Philippe BILLOT, General project co-ordinator, APUR/City of Ø
Mr Emilio MARTINEZ-VIDAL, Project manager, City of |
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12.00 |
Presentation
of technical outcomes sub-project 1 : |
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12.30 |
Lunch break |
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14.00 |
Presentation
of GIS organisation and outcomes of sub-projects 2 and 3 : Ø
Creation
of the basic reference map and data base contents by Eng Miss K.G. SAMARASINGHE, Drainage division, superintending
engineer, CMC; Mr Alain BEAUREGARD,
GIS expert, APUR Ø
Presentation
of the Atlas SP2 thematics, by Dr N.
WICKREMASINGHE, Chief dispensary medical officer CMC; Dr. P.S.
KARIYAWASAM, Chief medical officer of health, CMC, Mr. Fabrice
METEL, local coordinator, LASDO Ø
Presentation
of the SP3 Underserved Settlements by Mr Olivier TOUTAIN, consultant, precarious housing expert
; Mr Emilio MARTINEZ-VIDAL,
Project manager City of |
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16.30 |
Closing of the seminar by Mrs. Thamara Mallawaarachchi,
Director Development |
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The
Lasdo final seminar took place on
Designed
in a similar format as for the opening one, as far as protocol presentations
were concerned, this seminar was divided into two sessions :
The
morning session was devoted to political and protocol presentations completed
by his Worship Mr. Prasanna GUNAWARDENA, Mayor of Colombo ; Mr Wouter L.WILTON,
Chargé d’Affaires at the European delegation for
After
a short coffee break, the three project partner representatives presented their
general views of the project completion and outcomes, namely Eng.
Shantha JAYASUNDERA, CMC ; Mr
Philippe BILLOT, APUR-City of Paris and Mr Emilio MARTINEZ VIDAL, City of
Madrid.
The
presentation of sub-project 1 outcome, GEOKIOSK for
The
afternoon sessions were devoted to the presentation of sub-project 2 and 3
outcomes :
First
was presented the methodology adopted to build up the data base and associated
cartographic information. In particular, the presentations contained detailed
explanation of how the reference map and the data base model were elaborated,
since these two elements were crucial for GIS setting up.
Second,
sub-project 2 Atlas on Health was presented including
comments on selected thematic maps showing the utility of GIS techniques to
increase sector knowledge and define appropriate planning policies for the
future.
Third,
sub-project 3 outcomes, namely, project booklet
and comprehensive report on underserved settlements were presented with
particular focus on project methodology regarding community participation ,
field surveys, data integration, elaboration of the GIS and publication of the
thematic maps on the three selected scale levels (City, Ward and Household).
The
seminar closed around
Lasdo
Final Seminar (
Lighting of the traditional
lamp by His Worship Mr Prasanna Gunawardena, Mayor of
Lighting of the traditional lamp by Mr Wouter L.
Wilton, Chargé d’Affaires at the European Commission delegation for Sri Lanka
and Maldives
Lighting of the traditional lamp by CMC Deputy
Municipal Commissioner. Background left : Mr Philippe BILLOT, general
project co-ordinator, APUR-City of
Tribune from left to right : Eng N.S
Jayasundera, Deputy Municipal Commissioner; Mr Philippe Billot, general project
co-ordinator, APUR-City of Paris; Mr Wouter L. Wilton, Chargé d’Affaires at the
European Commission delegation for Sri Lanka and Maldives; His Worship Mr
Prasanna Gunawardena, Mayor of Colombo; Mr Gaël de Maisonneuve, Chargé
d’Affaires at the French Embassy for Sri Lanka and Maldives; CMC Deputy
Municipal Commissioner
The audience (from right to
left) : Mr Philippe Billot, general project co-ordinator, APUR-City of Paris;
Mr Emilio Martinez Vidal, project co-ordinator, City of Madrid; Mr Gaël de Maisonneuve,
Chargé d’Affaires at the French Embassy for Sri Lanka and Maldives; His Worship
Mr Prasanna Gunawardena, Mayor of Colombo
The audience. First row
(from the right) :
The audience
3. Mr Philippe BILLOT – general project co-ordinator, APUR/City
of
Your Worship, Mr Mayor of
We are now getting to the end of our
Asia Urbs common project which has involved our cities of
It seems to me that we have gone a
long way since our first visit in
LASDO project itself started
practically in August 2001 and, two years later, I think we may feel some
satisfaction looking back at what has been achieved by our team.
During this whole day, you will have
presentations of the work which has been completed. Before listening to them
and going into the details of the work, I would nevertheless like to remind the
objectives which were set when we started LASDO project and some general views
about the various results that have been achieved.
First of all, I would like to recall
once again that this project is a technical one, based on the use of Geographic
information systems technologies. Why GIS? Because urban development design and
management is a matter of space allocation and sharing, which requires a clear
view of implied territories. Based on the City map, geographic tools provide
the necessary multidisciplinary and transversal approach of urban issues. For now more than twenty years, GIS
techniques have thus proved in many places to be inescapable. This is particularly true for big cities like
the ones in which we live and work.
The general objective of LASDO
project was therefore to provide CMC with information, technology and know how
allowing it to develop its communication, management and planning processes.
To achieve this, it was chosen to do
it through the realisation of three sub-projects in order to take into account
three main lines of every big municipality activity : communication, sector
planning and local planning.
Communication is meant both
internally and externally. Inside CMC, like in most other places of this kind,
it appeared useful to contribute to information sharing culture improvement.
This was done through the creation of a project steering committee implying all
the departments of the Municipality, the involvement of personnel coming from
each of those departments and the realisation of tools designed to allow data
exchange.
This latter category includes mainly
the Basic Computerised map of
We have insisted on that point all along the project. One crucial
objective was to harmonise data and make it more accessible to the various CMC
departments. This will facilitate the analysis of the urban issues and make the
decision making process in land and city planning more transparent.
But communication must also work,
under different forms, with every stakeholder of urban life and development,
such as population, enterprises, administrative bodies, associations, NGOs...
Communication with population is a major issue. The project technical
attainments provide the first step towards the development of procedures
allowing to improve the service to city inhabitants (shortening and
simplification of administrative procedures, development of services and
adaptation to spatial population distribution….). This will take time but the
work which has been undertaken is a cornerstone.
During this two years collaboration, information sharing with CMC
institutional partners and other international co-operation projects, has also
permanently been one major concern. Amongst them, I must emphasise on the
PRIMUSS project, which will be evoked later on about what we call our sub project
three, that deals with the use of GIS technologies for Under Served Settlements
situation improvement.
Technically
speaking, the aim of the LASDO project was to set up in the Colombo Municipal
Council (C.M.C.), the foundations of an Urban Geographic Information System
covering priority urban issues and main scales with harmonised data. This
implied several tasks and activities providing CMC with the required
technological background. This includes data acquisition and organisation,
equipment and software implementation, specific developments... And, most
important, training and methodology. We may now consider that a GIS team has
been constituted inside CMC. This team was trained not only to the use of GIS
techniques, which is the easiest part of the process, but also to data
modelling and analysis.
The multi media tool which has been
developed in the frame of what we called sub-project one is merely one example
of what can be done in that domain. It will be presented to you at the end of
this morning. You will see that it allows an easy and quick access to several
kinds of located information about
Health has been chosen as a pilot
theme for sub-project two because it is a CMC major concern, with high impact
on population welfare. But, as it is the case for all urban matters, this
component encompasses other data and is merely a first step towards a more general
approach, including the other aspects of city life.
An important part of
During the last part of our seminar,
you will hear and see about the project technical attainments. But we must one
more time insist on the fact that it is the combination of those latter with
sound institutional organisation and personal skills which may be considered as
providing CMC with the basic information tool allowing it to improve its
decision making and communication processes.
We are aware that, when taken in the
day to day activity, it is not always easy to keep in mind the necessity of
information sharing and working in a network way. This needs to be supported by
some procedures and organisational schemes.
That is why, during our common work
process, beyond the inescapable technical exchange criteria, we have been
keeping vigilant about the regularity of work follow-up and control instances,
such as the steering committee, the project management unit and the thematic
work groups.
We think that this way of
functioning should endure in order to ensure the sustainability of what we have
undertaken and realised together, that is merely the first step of a process
which must last.
Urban planning is a social matter,
which requires a global and systemic approach, as well as the participation of
every one. Information is the spine of that process.
We therefore sincerely hope that
LASDO project will prove in the future to have contributed to the
implementation of a comprehensive planning process, supported by clear
information sharing processes and leaning on participative schemes implying all
the categories of stakeholders : political and economic decision makers,
administrative and planning staff, inhabitants...
To close this small reminder, I
would like at that moment to express our gratitude towards European Union Asia
Urbs programme and team, without which
LASDO project would not have existed, and to Europen Union delegation in
I would also like to thank all the
persons who have been involved in the project, and I won’t give the list because
they are too numerous, for the work they have accomplished and the extremely
good quality of human relations we have known.
During those three years, we have
learnt to know each other and work together, people from
I thank you for your attention.
4. Mr Emilio
MARTINEZ-VIDAL, project co-ordinator, City of
Your worship Mr. Major of
I am very honoured to represent the
city of
As already mentioned in the
Launching Seminar, it is the first time the city of
Consequently, with this project we
are opening a new collaboration line between two cultures, which were up to now
quite far away from each other. We hope this line will further develop and
pursue. For historical reasons,
In this case, in the scope of the
LASDO project, we contributed to create a GIS system for the
For instance, thanks to the use of
GIS techniques, we have elaborated the current Madrid Master Plan, approved in
1997. This Master Plan establishes the methodological framework, defines urban
regulation policies, and design the urban development schema for the future.
Moreover, the city of
The project we are now presenting,
gives to the Colombo Municipal Country the opportunity to benefit from
For this type of problems and
issues, the possibility of using modern GIS technologies as the one created in
the scope of the LASDO project, provides to the Local Authorities a
multipurpose tool, able to increasing knowledge of the urban reality,
facilitating a fast and easy visualization of the urban problems encountered in
the city, and finally optimising their operational solutions.
In the scope of the project, we
manage to create a new operational system, which can imply a change in the
habits and organization of the Departments of the Colombo Municipal Council,
that have the opportunity to constitute a network, based on information
sharing. Indeed, a local technical team was set up and trained to use, manage
and develop the established system.
At the same time, the cities of
Finally, this project contributes to
strengthen the social and cultural links between
As far as I’m concerned, I have
extremely appreciated working with the CMC staff, which were all the time very
kind with me, and patient with my initial level of English.
Thank you very much.
5. Mr shantha N.S JAYASUNDERA, Deputy Municipal
Commissioner, CMC
6. Eng Miss K.G. SAMARASINGHE, Drainage division,
superintending engineer, CMC and Mr Alain BEAUREGARD, GIS Expert, APUR-City of
LASDO
GIS Reference Database constitution
7. Dr P.S. KARIYAWASAM, Chief medical officer of health,
CMC
GEOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION SYSTEM IN HEALTH INFORMATICS :
Thematic maps
8. Mr Fabrice METEL, Local co-ordinator, LASDO project
Sub-Project 2: GIS
for Urban and Sector Planning
9. Mr Olivier TOUTAIN, consultant, precarious housing
expert
Underserved
settlements distribution and owner category, Land ownership