Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems for Smart Cities

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are necessary in ensuring safe and efficient transport networks. The current ITS, however, tend to focus on data collection and technology and generally miss out the need to incorporate the welfare of the three crucial components: infrastructure, vehicles, and users. Anchored on the concept of smart cities, cooperative ITS would promote more connected and safer transport networks.

Innovative Strategies for Development Summit 2016

Innovative Strategies for Development Summit (ISDS) gathered a diverse set of stakeholders and participants to discuss, debate, and develop new strategies related to the use of technological innovations in order to achieve several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as in education, employment and entrepreneurship, sustainable agriculture, universal healthcare, smart cities, and connectivity.

Welcome Remarks - Knowledge Partnership Forum: Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

Asian Development Bank's Executive Director for Japan Kazuhiko Koguchi commended the Bank's initiative on a knowledge matching exercise for resilient and smart city development with private sector firms that offer innovative solutions and technologies. He expressed hoped that the forum will help staff increase their capacity to develop and incorporate innovative ideas into their project designs.

Welcome Remarks - Knowledge Partnership Forum: Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

Central to Asian Development Bank (ADB's) mission is financial support for infrastructure in various sectors. The outcome of the Knowledge Partnership Week, in terms of new ideas and approaches and new commitments to collaboration, could very well become a new form of "ADB currency"—one that goes beyond dollars and cents.