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Smart Cities Training: A Case Study of Singapore (Video)

3 April 2017
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) designed a training program that will allow its staff from various operational departments to better understand Singapore’s approach and plans to becoming a Smart Nation, thereby contribute to enhancing ADB’s operations in the designing of potential ADB urban…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Better Enabling Business Transformation through a Digital Workplace

30 March 2017
Digital transformation should be thought of as transforming a business culture in a digital era. Within the context of a digital workplace, digital transformation should equate to thinking less of the digital, more of the transformation, and one’s role in driving and being a part of this change.

Better Enabling Business Transformation through a Digital Workplace

30 March 2017
Microsoft’s Jo Grubb, adoption and change management architect, discusses transforming business culture in a digital era, and bringing technology and people closer to fully embrace digital transformation in a rapidly-changing environment. This video covers the full session of Insight Thursday, ADB’…

ADB Urban Data Collection, Management, and Utilization: Status Quo and the Way Forward

1 March 2017
Understanding urban growth and change in Asia or anywhere else requires data—properly and effectively collected and managed data at that. ADB Urban Sector Consultant Renard Teipelke shares ways on how ADB can improve ways of collecting, managing, utilizing urban data. This presentation also…

FinTech, RegTech, and the Reconceptualization of Financial Regulation

24 February 2017
Financial technology or "Fintech" broadly means the application of technology to finance while regulation techonology or "RegTech" refers to the application of technology to regulation. This presentation compares and contrasts these two concepts. It traces their roots and discusses how they have…

Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals in Myanmar

16 February 2017
Regional disparities and low human development constrain Myanmar's efforts to meet the social development goals. The country's social protection system, in particular, covers only 3.2% of the country's population and its information system is based on manual operations. Myanmar needs to pursue…

The Case of Mongolia

16 February 2017
Since its independence, Mongolia has made considerable progress in reducing poverty. From 38.8% in 2010, poverty incidence in the country declined to 21.6% in 2014. However, meeting the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals would require Mongolia to pursue crucial measures.…

The Potential Contribution of Non-contributory Social Assistance Schemes to the Closure of the Protection Gap in Asia

15 February 2017
Social assistance can help reduce poverty and inequality, increase human and physical capital, generate local and regional multiplier effects, and foster economic and social mobility. However, most social assistance programs in many countries underperform. There is clearly a need to go beyond…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

The Potential Contribution of Contributory Social Protection (Pensions and other Social Insurance Cash Benefits Schemes) to the Closure of the Protection Gap in Asia

15 February 2017
Social insurance provides income security and replaces income lost from old age, incapacity or disability, and sickness. Achieving social insurance coverage for all employed may be difficult for some countries, especially those beset with governance problems. However, if we are to effectively…

The Social Protection Agenda of the SDGs and its Fiscal Challenge

15 February 2017
Successfuly meeting the SDGs is not an easy feat, especially since some of these goals have far-reaching social protection agenda. ADB developing member countries (DMCs) must be able to identify cost and resource requirements required to meet these goals. This presentation shares a modelling…