1. Meeting - 2008-01-14

First Round Table Meeting, ITC, Phnom Penh

Summary

Date: 14. January 2008

Moderation: Dr Davin UY, Irina Stobbe

Landmine Problem

At present there are about 50 million of 350 different types of land mines buried in roughly 55 countries of the world.
The absence of new technologies in the real work of demining is surprising.
The techno-scientific know-how is badly required for development of modern methods in landmine detection

Sustainable Development

Development is the basis for welfare.
Sustainability is possible only on a high level of understanding of business, customer, environment and politics.
Education is the basis for sustainable development (economical, technical,political, social).
Sustainable development needs educated people, from laity to the scientific staff!
The landmine problem is also a problem of the Cambodian population. Most of the people have not enough English skills to adopt the required knowledge. For further success there must be a community, that is able to discuss about possibilities on landmine detection technologies.

The participants agree, that the goal of the round table and expectations of participants to this round table are

that the common language for the round table and the course to be developed at the ITC must be English
to cross link competent partners (scientists, deminers, detector producers and human aid organisations) with each other.
to share the innovative knowledge about land mine detection technologies with people, who need the knowledge and experiences to develop, build and test specialised detection technologies with higher confidence – that should be used in combined devices, adapted to the individual environmental situation in Cambodia.
to promote communication as an effective tool for further development should encourage not only scientists to foster the discussion of the establishment of new landmine detection technologies.
to collect reliable, scientific knowledge and experiences and develop networks, which share the knowledge
to create an efficient network to apply for national and international funding of projects on new detection technologies.
to meet regularly (every 3 month) to discuss the state of the art and on the progress in education, science and development on new Landmine detection technologies and to check the possibility of new projects.

Next meeting: First week of April at ITC.