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Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum: Innovative Solutions for Asia and the Pacific

26 to 28 January 2022
How can technology and finance protect our oceans, increase resilience, and accelerate the growth of sustainable blue economies? The ADB Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum aimed to promote and share innovative technologies, good practices, case studies, and practical solutions to protect and…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs: Part II – The Technical Challenges

20 January 2022
This is the second installment of a three-part series, "Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs," with credit scoring specialist Dean Caire and fintech expert Steven Landman. The first part in December 2021 unraveled how credit scoring works and how new approaches can make traditional…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

ADB Distinguished Speakers Program—Daron Acemoglu

19 January 2022
Is the world today afflicted with excessive automation? In this lecture, Professor Daron Acemoglu discussed automation and its consequences, including the potential economic, political, and social costs of the current path of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. By displacing…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Education Sector Group Presentations

17 January 2022
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, technological advances brought by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) had already disrupted the world of work, leading to the growing demand for new sets of skills and competencies. Consequently, old jobs were being lost, while new jobs were created including…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

Trade-Relevant Data in Suspicious Transaction Reports

14 December 2021
via Zoom 90-minute webinar for banks and financial institutions to introduce the ADB-led trade-based money laundering (TBML) project with seven Asia and the Pacific FIU-collaborators, and to provide a platform for experts to share TBML detection tips and best practices. Note: Session recordings…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

A New Pathway for the Creative Economy: Recovery, Growth and Jobs?

8 December 2021
Before the pandemic hit, the creative economy was on track to account for 10% of global GDP by 2030. In recognition, the United Nations declared 2021 the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. The pandemic, however, changed the trajectory of the creative economy in two…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office

AgTech Marketplace: Promising Technologies to Help Improve Farmer Producer Organizations' Market Access

6 December 2021
To increase the farming income of smallholder farmers and minimize food waste in horticulture value chains, ADB assisted the state governments in Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh, farmer producer organizations (FPOs), and their value chain partners under horticulture value chain development…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, South Asia Department

Farm-to-Market Produce Logistics: Cases and Emerging Trends in Korea and India

6 December 2021
Innovations in fresh produce agri-supply chains are happening across a wide spectrum of stakeholders and channels. Direct sourcing from farmers, connecting farmer producer organizations (FPO) to business and end consumers, digital supply chain management tools, engagement of e-commerce platforms…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, South Asia Department

Agri-logistics Innovation and Best Practices in India

6 December 2021
Back-to-back webinars were organized for farmer producer organizations, state governments, and value chain partners. The Farm-to-Market Produce Logistics: Cases and Emerging Trends in Korea and India webinar discussed opportunities and trends on how fresh produce agri logistics evolved in South…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, South Asia Department, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs: Part I – The Basics

2 December 2021
In this 30-minute technical session presented by the Women's Finance Exchange (WFX), participants will get the chance to hear from and ask the experts as they talk about "Accessing Female SMEs: Digitalization and Credit Scoring." This first installment of a three-part series was conducted on 2…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department