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ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Webinar Series Part 9 Digital Payment Solutions for Smart and Inclusive Cities

11 May 2021
Digital payment technologies are considered an enabler of smart city development. While the pandemic has accelerated the use of digital payments (or e-payments), it also highlighted the various economic and social benefits, efficiencies, and conveniences that digital payments can bring to…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

LEAP 3 LEAP on Using AI and Satellite to Assess Flooding Impact

22 April 2021
In the third SERD's LEAP Series, EarthPulse's Laura Moreno demonstrated the use of earth observation tools combined with big data to assess the damage by the flooding in Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia in October 2020 and Dili, Timor-Leste in April 2021. SDCC-DT's Paolo Manunta moderated the lively…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Webinar Series Part 8 Digital Tools for Enhanced Community Engagement in Urban Planning

13 April 2021
New urban infrastructure investments in the context of smart city development have an impact on the lives of the city’s citizens. But while citizens provide a wealth of insights into how they live and interact with the city, their voices are often left out of the urban planning process, which…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

RISE Knowledge Product Launch WaterSensitive Informal Settlement Upgrading

25 March 2021
Download the three knowledge products at bit.ly/2PiHs1j. ----- This event served as the launch of 3 knowledge products generated through the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) program. Presenters during the event discussed the rationale for a water-sensitive cities (…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Reimagining the Future COVID19s Impact on Youths Jobs and Livelihoods Aspirations

18 March 2021
In 2020, ADB Youth for Asia1 (YfA) launched research, in partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO), that unpacks how the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) impacted the jobs and livelihood prospects of young people in Asia and the Pacific.2 This provides an early view of how the…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

SEADS 2021 Deep Dive Workshop on Reinventing Smart Cities after COVID19

18 March 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is symbolic of the major shocks and stresses that cities can expect to encounter in the future. COVID-19 has exposed and magnified the underlying vulnerability of our rapidly urbanizing and highly interconnected world. As cities and governmental bodies shift from immediate…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

SEADS 2021 Reinventing Smart Cities after COVID19

17 March 2021
[Session recording to be uploaded soon] The COVID-19 pandemic is symbolic of the major shocks and stresses that cities can expect to encounter in the future. COVID-19 has exposed and magnified the underlying vulnerability of our rapidly urbanizing and highly interconnected world. As cities and…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Learnings for Economics and Policy LEAP Series

4 March 2021
LEAP features online presentations on topics to strengthen economic and policy analysis skills of SERD staff in preparing research and project documents. The aim is to encourage discussions among the participants on the latest developments and sharing of country experiences and perspectives.
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

LEAP 2 Targeting the Poor using Big Data

4 March 2021
The Special Supplement to the Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2020 in September 2020, which discusses how poverty estimates can be mapped through data integration and artificial intelligence, has been widely received for its contribution to ADB’s knowledge initiatives. Mr. Martinez took a…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Webinar Series Part 7 Promoting Smart Tourism Recovery via Virtual Reality

2 March 2021
The tourism sector serves as major economic lifeblood for many cities across Southeast Asia. The scale of this reliance was emphasized as pandemic-related travel restrictions were implemented in major cities around the region, putting all tourism activities to a halt. This resulted in steep…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department