First Part is to set up the Platform for Healthy City, Healthy Community Network for the
knowledge exchange and coordination linkage between the League Partners Network for Healthy City,
Healthy Community Motivation. In the passing year B.E.2004 there were the setting of the platform for
Habitat City, Healthy Community Network comprising of 3 phases
First Network Platform “Excess Garbage in the Cities: Problems which everyone causes,
everyone solves”, on April 1, B.E.2004, concluded that the garbage problem was the big problem of
every cities, every sector had to take part to solve, especially the communities should be more
involved. But from the past, this problem had not been solved seriously. There had been many
methods considered such as using the landfill method, the incinerator or making the stuffed bar
garbage which was high-cost, or giving the priority to the garbage decreased which requires the
community participation to be the key factor. Besides this, there had been the problems of providing
garbage land, or disrespectfulness of the law. These main problems were the management problems
which need to be cleared, the cycle innovation process be implemented from the start to the end, and
the mechanism and the implementation be coordinated continuously. The importance is the access to
the information and knowledge for the people, which will contribute to the development of garbage
management solution effectively from the beginning to the end.
Second Network Platform on “Renovation on the Old City Way of Life” was held on June
11,B.E.2004, discussing that “The Old City is Lively” was the valuable cultural heritage that could be
touched or couldn’t be touched, have the deep meaning, have much connected and complicated
dimension, have the function to succeed and connect the period of the past with the present and the
future. The conservation and renovation have to accept the biodiversity along the way of life and the
cultural characteristic of each local area by considering to cover every dimension, to build the partners
participation process, and to have a national strategy. The Office of Natural Resources and
Environmental Policy and Planning has drafted that strategy with the participation of the partners from
every sectors in order to submit to the Committee on Conservation and Development of Pattanakasin
City and old cities for the Cabinet’s approval.
Third Network Platform on “Public Space Development was held on December 17, B.E.2004,
concluding that the public space is a cultural aspect that includes both local and western ideas.
Therefore a public space has to be in a suitable place. Public space development has to come from
the participated decision of every sector. People’s participation is as important as the public
participation. It’s time for the social public sector to come into the development process. The powerful
development from the top to the bottom makes the dimension for the culture. The local characteristic
has disappeared a lot. It must have the idea connection, emphasizing on society, culture, health and
economy as the one dimension.