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Kwater Academy

15 May 2017
Become a water professional. Take online courses and trainings at K-water Academy, the Korea Water Resources Corporation's academic and training center. To advance water education, the K-water Academy offers skills and training for water professionals as well as online courses. The academy also…

Kwater Convergence Institute

15 May 2017
As a model water organization, the Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) is at the forefront of research and development in the water sector in the Asia and Pacific region. With the K-water Convergence Institute, K-water offers knowledge solutions that may be adopted by other countries in the…

Seouls Smart Urban Solutions

10 May 2017
From ruins to a smart metropolis, Seoul has significantly transformed into a liveable city. In this knowedge sharing session, Seoul Urban Solutions Agency discussed key urban solutions that the city of Seoul has built in the last five decades of rapid urbanization.

Coastal Towns Environmental Infrastructure Project

17 March 2017
ADB's Elma Morsheda shares how climate risk and vulnerability assessment screening can be incorporated in project design and how climate resilience measures can be applied in municipal infrastructure projects. She presents the ADB experience in implementing the Coastal Towns Environmental…

Social Protection in Korea 2016 Social Welfare Key Policy Issues and Government Budget Trend Analysis

17 February 2017
In Korea, social protection comprises the largest portion of the government's budget. To further improve the country's social protection system, Korea should pursue several measures to enhance coverage and make it more efficient. These measures include integrating the social security information…

Prefeasibility Studies and Preliminary Engineering in Gazipur and Khulna City Corporations

8 February 2017
Experts presented pre-feasibility studies and initial engineering design in preparation for an ADB-funded project in Bangladesh. Cities Development Initiative for Asia's Senior Urban Environmental Engineer Neil Chadder and Asian Development Bank's Senior Urban Development Specialist Mingyuan Fan…

BAN Comparative Analysis of Bangladeshs Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement Indigenous Peoples

31 January 2017
The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (…

Shaping the Future of Education with Technology Comparison of Korea and Singapore for ICT in Education

11 November 2016
The Republic of Korea and Singapore have enacted systemic and systematic policies to bring new forms of teaching and learning practices in schools. ICT has been employed not only as a pedagogical tool but also as a catalyst to prepare the competitive workforce in the knowledge economy.

Innovative ICT Classroom Project

11 November 2016
A project of the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Education and Korea Education Frontier Association, the Innovative ICT-based Pilot Classroom was developed with the aim to build ICT-based classrooms with state-of-the-art ICT equipment for primary and secondary schools.

Trends and Development of ICT in Education Policy

10 November 2016
Despite a countless number of national-level ICT in education policy initiatives in the last decade, cases of successful integration of ICT that have led to enhancing teaching and learning in school still remain an exception than the norm. A suggested practical procedure for developing a national…