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Factors Shaping the Flows and Policies for Technology Workers

19 January 2017
Many factors affect policies on migration and technology workers. These include the uneven development among countries and the demographic and economic shifts that increase or decrease demand for technology workers. India is an example that shows how these factors affect technology workers. It is…

Promoting Low-cost Formal Remittance Channels and Financial Literacy

18 January 2017
In the Philippines, remittances have become very important, given the increasing number of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and the amount they regularly send back to the country. In 2015, official data show that they sent $25.6 million cash remittances, which is about 10% of the country's gross…

Research and Development Activities in Thailand: Survey of Firm-Level Data Analyses

9 January 2017
Considering both external and internal factors to determine a firm’s performance is a way to carry out empirical studies using firm-level data. In this presentation, various models are used to analyze the research and development behavior of firms in Thailand.

Medicine e-Procurement in Indonesia

19 December 2016
Can Indonesia's e-procurement system assure an adequate supply of medicine and other healthcare needs? Will the system improve the delivery of vital public health services? ADB Health Specialist Sean Donato presented on the implementation of Indonesia's e-procurement systems for medicines and other…

Transitioning to Green and Circular Economy for Industrial Sustainability

24 November 2016
Creating sustainable value chains and networks is important as highlighted in this presentation. It also stresses the need for formulating systemic solutions and pursuing extensive collaboration with different stakeholders.

Drones in Greening the Service Sector

24 November 2016
With the ability to collect vast amounts of data across large areas in a cost-effective manner and track changes over time, drones have a huge potential to promote and advance environmental sustainability. Drones provide knowledge of ground truth by helping confirm data on the ground.

Disruptive Innovation

24 November 2016
Understanding disruptive innovation means taking opportunities that look unattractive to most firms. When confronted with innovation, firms must think about it differently and not in the same way as other innovations. The surest way to kill innovation is to measure it the same way as existing…

Green Technology and Business Innovation

23 November 2016
Consumer demand and purchasing power impacts whether or not niche green businesses and technologies become mainstream. This session features case studies and experiences that shed some light on how to move green businesses from niche to mainstream, and to see an economy where more businesses and…

Innovative ICT Classroom Project

11 November 2016
A project of the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Education and Korea Education Frontier Association, the Innovative ICT-based Pilot Classroom was developed with the aim to build ICT-based classrooms with state-of-the-art ICT equipment for primary and secondary schools.

Shaping the Future of Education with Technology: Comparison of Korea and Singapore for ICT in Education

11 November 2016
The Republic of Korea and Singapore have enacted systemic and systematic policies to bring new forms of teaching and learning practices in schools. ICT has been employed not only as a pedagogical tool but also as a catalyst to prepare the competitive workforce in the knowledge economy.