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Asia Startup Ecosystem Alliance

9 April 2019
Seoul Startup Hub is the Republic of Korea’s largest incubating facility that provides a total periodic support to those who want to start their business or grow their start ups. The Hub also pushes for the Asia Startup Ecosystem Alliance to work with those based outside the Republic of Korea.…

Affordable Solutions for Vulnerable Communities

21 March 2019
Kate Landry, Build Change Philippines country director, and Daniel Stander, RMS global managing director, discussed risk models that allow estimate of lives lost and housing losses that would result from a large disaster, and which can quantify the lives saved and GDP saved that would result from…

NRW Management and 24x7 Water Supply In Cities: How is ADB Helping The Government

14 March 2019
Can developing countries afford continuous water supply? Check out how ADB is helping its developing member countries access continuous water supply while reducing nonrevenue water from service providers.

24x7 Water Supply Scheme - The Ilkal Story

14 March 2019
Ilkal is the first town in India to provide 24x7 water supply to the entire population. Know more about the key drivers, and the lessons that other countries can learn from this experience.

What the heck is Smart City? Experiences from Seoul

7 March 2019
Kris Moon who has just joined as Urban Development Specialist at SDCC’s Urban Sector Group shares her experiences with Smart City Seoul while it is still very fresh in her memory. Kris was a US national, an outsider, living and working in Seoul, and she was also an urban champion spreading Smart…

Analysing Urban Areas Using Free Data and Open Online Tools

6 March 2019
The aim of this webinar is twofold: first, to outline the use of the world settlement footprint (WSF) for comparative analysis and, second, to present a set of online tools which can be used to generate statistics and geo-spatial analysis hosted on the Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (UTEP).

Financing Infrastructure

11 February 2019
In this presentation, Mark Rathbone of PricewaterhouseCoopers provided an overview of blended finance approaches and examples. He also pulled together the key challenges and policy recommendations emerging for the session in Session 4: The Way Forward. His presentation was followed by a moderated…

Improving Urban Livelihoods

6 February 2019
Public urban spaces such as streets, open spaces, green areas, parks, and public buildings are necessary components for a livable city. Inadequate, poorly designed, or privatized public spaces often generate exclusion and marginalization and therefore degrade the livability of the urban…

Satellite Data for Climate Resilience and Disaster Management City Plans

2 February 2019
This webinar focuses on flood history and flood risk as well as on land motion (subsidence), but related topics that are touched upon are land use/land cover and change, transport infrastructure and green urban areas, as these are also relevant for assessing sustainability of cities with respect…

Slums Upgrade and Access to Basic Services

30 January 2019
Most urban centers in developing countries have very little current/accurate data available on the location, extent and the dynamics of informal settlements. More, related information on level of service deprivation (e.g., water and sanitation access) are completely missing or they are limited to…