Digital Strategies for Development Forum 2017

Asia is ready to fully embrace the digital economy. Discover the latest developments in ICTs for education and smart cities.

The 2017 Digital Strategies for Development Forum, a collaborative event with ADB and UNESCO, provided a venue for high-impact discussions on ICT for Development and tackled country and sectoral/thematic development strategies towards building a digital economy in Asia and the Pacific. A side event on 5–6 September 2017 included the 14th APT Telecommunications / ICT Development Forum.

Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy

This learning event, organized by Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and ADB Institute, aimed to bring together policy makers, financial sector supervisors and regulators, financial institutions, financial technology companies, academia, as well as financial sector experts to discuss opportunities and challenges in digital finance. Another objective of the event discussions was to identify how multilateral development banks such as ADB can support in this development by financing digital technology and transformation projects.