Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting, Viña del Mar
PRSCO Council Meeting in Viña del Mar, Chile
Date and Time: 16:30PM-18:00PM Thursday August 6, 2015
Meeting Place: Room 311, Building D, Business School of Adolfo Ibáñez Universitya) Apologies received, roll-call, and confirmation of Section representatives
Apologies received
Budy Resosudarmo (PRSCO president), Chitta Ranjan Pathak (IRSA), David Plane (WRSA)David Edgington (CRSA), Dusan Paredes (SOCHER), Hosoe Moriki (JSRSAI), Jean-Claude Thill(past RSAI president), John Madden (ANZRSAI), Luis Armando Galvis (ACER), Paul Dalziel(ANZRSAI), Peter Nijkamp (ERSA), Rachel Franklin (WRSA), Roberta Capello (Editor PiRS),Roger Stough (WRSA), Ronny Correa Quezada (Ecuador), Sarwar Jahan(BRSA), Sutee
Anantsuksomsri (Thailand)
Present (and sections presenting)
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (RSAI president), Fu-Chuan Lai (CRSA-T), Gabriel Rodriguez (Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Peru), Hiroyuki Shibusawa (JSRSAI), Jacques Poot (ANZRSAI), Jorge
Serrano (AMECIDER), Kingsley Haynes (WRSA), Patricio Aroca (PRSCO vice president,SOCHER), Robert Stimson (ANZRSAI), Suminori Tokunaga (JSRSAI), S. EréndiraSerrano-Oswald (AMECIDER), Tomaz Dentinho (RSAI Executive Director), Yuzuru Miyata(JSRSAI) Yoshiro Higano (JSRSAI), Wen-Jung Lian (CRSA-T)b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in Washington DC, November 13 2014
Patricio moved that the Minutes be approved, seconded Shibusawa.
c) Confirmation of Affiliation to the PRSCO (RSAI) of Ecuador Section (Ronny CorreaQuezada)
Ronny Correa Quezada was unable to attend the Council meeting. However, he has sent an e-mail toShibusawa which summarizes several regional meetings in Ecuador and the first meeting of theEcuador section. Patricio said that the Ecuador section was established in the Summer Institute inLoja. Patricio moved that the confirmation of affiliation to the PRSCO be approved, seconded bySerrano and Higano.
d) Report on the 24th Pacific Conference of the RSAI 2015 (Patricio Aroca)
Patricio made a brief report on the 24th Pacific conference of the RSAI. Workshops, keynote
speeches, parallel sessions were well-organized. Around 90 papers are presented. 150 people
attended. Both languages in Spanish and English are well utilized. The meeting is successful.
e) Report on the 14th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2016 (Sutee Anantsuksomsri)
Sutee Anantsuksomsri was not able to attend the meeting. He has sent the updated information on
the 14th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2016. The conference will be held at Faculty of Architecture,
Chulalongkon University, Bangkok, Thailand during July 6 (Wed) – July 8 (Fri), 2016. Poot asked
the location of the convergence venue and transportation conditions in Bangkok. Higano suggests
the website of conference should be launched more early. Serrano suggested more supports would
be helpful for the Summer Institute. Stimson suggested more involvement of related groups or fields
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in Thailand would be beneficial for the summer institute. Haynes pointed out the financial support
from the government is an important issue. Andres suggests the RSAI has a support system. Higano
said that there are three key persons in Thailand and Sutee has organized the World Congress.
Higano will confirm the member of the local organizing committee in Bangkok. Stimson suggests tohave a meeting with Sutee and the other local organizers in order to clarify the venue, the localorganizer committee participants and gives than a close idea of what the PRSCO Summer Instituteare about. Patricio will send a note to Sutee in order to promote that meeting.
In addition, the Executive Director of PRSCO will write an official letter to communicate the official
decision that the 14th PRSCO Summer Institute will be held at Faculty of Architecture,
Chulalongkon University, Bangkok, Thailand during July 6 (Wed) to July 8 (Fri), 2016, to bepresented to potential meeting supporter.
f) The venue of the 25th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2017 (Fu-Chuan Lai)
Fu-Chuan Lai presented a proposal on the 25th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2017. Theconference will be held at National Cheng‐Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan (CRSA-T),
May 17-20, 2017. Tomaz pointed out two types of fees, registration fees of the Non-RSAI members
and RSAI-members. Serena also suggested the category of fees for developed countries. Haynes andHigano asked the transportation conditions to the venue of the conference. Patricio moved theproposal to be approved, seconded by Poot, Haynes, and Higano.
g) Discussion of venues of the PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2018-2021(Patricio Aroca)
Patricio introduced a possibility of hosting the PRSCO Summer Institute 2018 in Peru. GabrielRodriguez, who was in the meeting, explained that his university (Pontificia Universidad Católicadel Peru) is interested in hosting the meeting in 2018. Gabriel asked some points regarding thePRSCO Summer institute and they will prepare a proposal for the PRSCO Summer Institute in 2018and he will present the proposal at a future council meeting.
h) Nomination of the president of the PRSCO, 2016-2017 (Budy Resosudarmo)
It was moved by Higano that Patricio Aroca will be the next PRSCO president (2016-2017). Thenomination was approved.
i) Nomination of the PRSCO representative for the RSAI Council for the term 2015-2017(Jacques Poot)
Jacques explained the policy to select annually a PRSCO representative on RSAI Council. The rule
was prepared by the subcommittee which consists of Patricio, Rachel, Yoshiro and Jacques.
Following the rule, Serena was nominated as a PRSCO representative (2015-2017). Poot mentionedthat Jichung Yang will be expired his term at the end of this year and he will be in the second term
(2016-2018). Seconded, Patricio. Andres suggests that the former presidents of three super-regionsin RSAI automatically are nominated to the RSAI councilors.

j) PRSCO Awards (John Madden)
John Madden were not able to attend the Council meeting. He send some notes on the PRSCOAwards for outstanding service and for best paper. Patricio explained that winners of Higano Awardfor Outstanding Service to PRSCO were David Plane, Jorge Serrano. A winner of PRSCO Award forBest Paper by a Young Regional Scientist is Andrés Castaño Zuluaga. Awards winners are approved.
2k) Report on activities of pacific rim regional science communities
Serena made a report on the recent activities on the Latin American and Caribbean supra-regional
network. Serena also invited to the 20th AMECIDER Congress in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico,
November 17-20th.
l) Any further business
The next PRSCO Council meeting will be held during the NARSC meeting in Portland.

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