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Link to this blog post: http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2009/10/workshop-on-economic-modeling.html
Caption: Prof. Joshua Epstein of Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA is the main resource person during the Workshop. Link: http://www.brookings.edu/experts/epsteinj.aspx
WORKSHOP ON ECONOMIC MODELING (EVOLUTIONARY TRADE),
AGENT-BASED MODELING, AND GRID COMPUTING
(Workshop on South Asia Strategic Framework for Aid for Trade Road Map)
Auditorium Zone D, Asian Development Bank Headquarters, Manila, Philippines
7–9 October 2009
PROGRAM
DAY 1 Wednesday, 7 October
08:30 Coffee and Registration
09:00-09:15 Introduction:
Welcome Remarks
Ashok Sharma, Director, Financial Sector Public Management and Trade
Division (SAFM), South Asia Department (SARD), Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Review of Agenda
Hans-Peter Brunner, Senior Economist (Trade), SAFM, SARD, ADB
09:15 The Eastern South Asia Economic Map on Diva
[Ongoing GIS work and experts]
Rafael Saldaña, Consultant, ADB // Associate Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
10:00 Presentation: Millennium Development Goals and ADB's Strategy 2020
Shiladitya Chatterjee, Advisor, Office of the Director General, Strategy and Policy
Department (SPD), ADB
Coffee break
10:45 Presentation: Results Based Management at ADB
[How can development results from Aid for Trade interventions be linked to ADB's development indicator system?]
Walter Kolkma, Principal Resource Management Specialist, Results
Management Unit, SPD, ADB 2
11:15 Presentation: South Asia Regional Cooperation Strategy
Bruno Carrasco, Director, Country Coordination and Regional Cooperation Division, SARD, ADB
12.15 Lunch at PDR2 hosted by Ashok Sharma, Director, SAFM, SARD, ADB
02:00 Getting Results: Mapping and Modeling Malaria in Africa
[Case study and demonstration, and how the work in Africa is relevant for ADB]
Dr. Nicolas Maire, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland
Coffee break
03:00 ADB Computing Resources – What can ADB usefully provide for the team? Radhakrishnan Srinivasan, Principal IST Specialist (Enterprise Architect), Office of Information Systems and Technology, ADB
04:00 Volunteer Grid Application – Set-up Possibilities for the Strategic Project
[so team work can begin in earnest over long distances]
Dr. Simon Lin, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
DAY 2 Thursday, 8 October
09:00 Grafting Numeric Model on Logic Algorithm
[This will outline the necessary key elements of a regional mathematical representation of the relevant sector economy]
Rafael Saldaña and Hans-Peter Brunner
Coffee break
10:30 An Agent-Based Model for Trade and Development
[This will explain what agent based models can achieve better than conventional model efforts]
Prof. Joshua Epstein, The Brookings Institution, United States
The NECSI-MIT Approach to Models – What can we learn?
[Review of materials]
Hans-Peter Brunner
12:30 Lunch
02:00 Value Chain Examples in Bangladesh, Northeastern India, and Nepal
[Summary of approach, product selection, and linkage to impact model efforts across the region]
Atdhe Veliu, Global Development Solutions, LLC, United States
Break-off time
Dinner arrangement
DAY 3 Friday, 9 October
09:00 Technical Review of the Inception Report
[Key requirements and content for delivery by 5 November 2009]
Coffee break
10:00 Resource Allocation and Refined Work Plan under the R-PATA 7248
[Making the project work]
12:00 Lunch
02:00 Setting-up Grid Computing for the Project?
Discussion about data collection efforts and coordination with the field
[How do we insure we get reliable and informative impact results from the exercise for ADB?]
Break-off time
High-level Presentations of Eminent Resource Persons
Prof. Joshua Epstein and Dr. Nicolas Maire
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