Islamic Development Bank Knowledge Management and Institutional Learning

Knowledge management connects people to the process and technology that will help to create, extract, share, and reuse knowledge gained in the cause of their work to improve development outcomes.

Learn what drove the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to become a knowledge-based organization. This presentation discusses IsDB’s knowledge management and innovation strategic framework, and experiences in knowledge management innovations.

Young Uck Kang

Young Uck Kang currently leads the Development Asia project at ADB. His areas of expertise are strategic leadership, policy-making process, microeconomics, economic analysis, statistics/econometrics, economic and social development policy, public finance and income distribution, governance, and knowledge management. Before joining ADB in July 2014, he was a professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in the Republic of Korea. He has a PhD and MPhil in Public Administration from New York University, MPP from University of Chicago and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Localizing Global Agendas: Sustainable Development Goals, New Urban Agenda, and Climate Change

This presentation introduces the United Cities and Local Government (UCLG), an association that represents and defends local governments’ interest on the world stage. It shares the work of UCLG in the Asia-Pacific region and what the organization does to support localization of the sustainable development goals at the global level.