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Drinking Water Safety Plans: Water Authority Fiji

12 March 2021
Mosese Nariva and Daiana Legalega shared Water Authority Fiji's six-year journey to embed 55 drinking WSPs in Fiji, and their current task of ensuring the documents are kept relevant, up-to-date, and effective. They emphasized the importance of examining the unique risk for each element of the…

Drinking Water Safety Plans: Samoa Independent Water Schemes Association

12 March 2021
Clarissa Laulala discussed key takeaways from the development and implementation of drinking WSPs for over 54 villages under Samoa's Independent Water Schemes Association. She particularly highlighted challenges and lessons learned, including maintaining ongoing community engagement, lack of…

Financing Agripreneurs and Rural Small and Medium-size Enterprise

9 March 2021
Discussion in this session focuses on innovative financing mechanisms, including emerging ICT platforms and fintech, to extend credit and banking services to small and dispersed borrowers, i.e., agripreneurs and SMEs for farm and nonfarm operations in rural areas. The panelists explore how they see…

Technology and Innovation Marketplace

9 March 2021
International research institutions and technology firms were invited to showcase their modern technologies and services to support rural development and food security. There were 10 booths set up in the ADB cafeteria hallway leading to the Auditorium, and nine exhibitors presented on Day 1 in the…

AASCTF Digital Solutions Brief: Promoting Safe and Inclusive Tourism Recovery via Virtual Reality

2 March 2021
This brief sets out opportunities, benefits and prerequisites for pursuing smart digital solutions in promoting tourism recovery in cities, with two use cases showcasing application of such approaches.

Cultural Tourism XR

2 March 2021

Tech in Tourism

2 March 2021
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VRWORLD presents Are We There Yet.travel

2 March 2021
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Disruptive technologies such as Smartstick for improved water measurements and financial viability of WCAs

2 March 2021
In this presentation, Oyture Anarbekov discussed Smartstick as a disruptive technology that can improve water measurements and financial viability. He also highlighted how to improve the transparency of on-farm water distribution, which should lead to better governance and increased financial…

Targeting Investments in Medium to Large Scale Irrigation Schemes, IMWI

2 March 2021
In this presentation, Dr. Simon Langan presented proper guidance to identify areas where investments are important. He showed how the organization and government functions contribute to water service delivery. He also discussed the issues of functions and the mechanisms to promote water services…