ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Webinar Series Part 1: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19 through Digital Solutions

The COVID-19 crisis presents a pressing opportunity to rethink public health, infrastructure provision, and social protection systems. With an eye toward the future, we must find ways to make our cities more resilient without compromising the interdependence that holds our society — including the urban poor — together.

Michael Foley

Michael Foley is a coastal engineer and principle investigator and project manager for the Resilient and Sustainable Engineering (RiSE) team at Oceanit, a private company dedicated to solving problems in fields ranging from artificial intelligence to nanotechnology. Mike has worked on a diverse range of projects including beach restoration, shoreline erosion protection, and repair of historic coastal structures. His practice aims to develop holistic systems-based solutions to responsibly manage the hazards of climate change on island communities.

Learning from Evaluation

ADB conducts evaluation work to ensure accountability, promote learning, and maximize development effectiveness. This presentation examines how ADB can better integrate artificial intelligence in its operations. It also explores Watson, a technology that can help ADB ingest thousands of documents and unstructured data, e.g., ADB project completion reports.

Marc Lepage

Marc has worked in the knowledge and technology innovation for development context since 1998.

Marc currently works at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as Principal IT specialist (technology innovation), based at ADB headquarter in Manila, Philippines.

Marc advises and supports ADB with its 2030 digital agenda, by designing and implementing ADB’s digital sandboxes programme, an initiative aiming at using emerging digital technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics to future-proof ADB and support its transformation into an agile organization.