At the heart of eFishery's success is a business model that leverages data from fish farms to help Indonesian farmers sell their produce better.
Upcoming Webinar
Life-Course Immunisation for Older Adults in Asia: A Health Economics Case
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. GMT+8 | Virtual
This webinar will examine the importance of life-course immunization, especially for older people in Southeast Asia, and will look at solutions to increase vaccine uptake.
Digital Aquaculture Business Solves Hyperlocal Problems and Boosts Income of Fish and Shrimp Farmers
At the heart of eFishery's success is a business model that leverages data from fish farms to help Indonesian farmers sell their produce better.
Technology Has Placed Women's Financial Inclusion within Reach: A G20 Opportunity
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, where technology shapes industries and societies, India's G20 Presidency takes center stage in driving gender equality and economic inclusion.
From Poverty
to Prosperity:
The Power of Green Entrepreneurship
in ASEAN
Green enterprises help fight poverty by creating jobs and adopting sustainable practices.
Viet Nam’s Personal Data Protection Decree: Examining Benefits and Key Challenges
The challenge lies in ensuring the decree stops illegal data collection and exchange, which has left more than two-thirds of citizens' personal data unsecured.
This Social Enterprise Wants to Help Indonesia Eliminate Single-Use Plastics
Alner sells essentials, like shampoos, liquid soaps, and seasonings, in reusable bottles to wean households from goods sold in sachets.
Game on: Schooling Digital Ninjas on Sustainable Urban Farming
With 200 million monthly users, gaming platform Roblox is fertile ground for online learning initiatives targeting those born after 2010—the planet's youngest generation.
Decarbonization, Step by Step
Encompassing the whole life cycle of assets and every part of the value chain, PAS 2080 has a crucial role to play in decarbonizing the world’s buildings and infrastructure.
A Secure and Reliable Rare Earth Mineral Supply Chain to Meet Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
To meet the net-zero emission scenario, demand for critical minerals is estimated to grow sixfold to 42.3 million tonnes in 2050 from 7.1 million tonnes in 2020.
Latest News
Solutions
Digital Aquaculture Business Solves Hyperlocal Problems and Boosts Income of Fish and Shrimp Farmers
21 September 2023
News
The selected teams will be provided with $50,000 in seed funding, coaching, mentoring, and access to networks essential for bringing their innovation to scale.
Report
This report explains how Southeast Asia can increase the manufacture of solar photovoltaic cells, batteries, and electric two-wheelers.
Solutions
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, where technology shapes industries and societies, India's G20 Presidency takes center stage in driving gender equality and economic inclusion.
Solutions
Green enterprises help fight poverty by creating jobs and adopting sustainable practices.
Solutions
The challenge lies in ensuring the decree stops illegal data collection and exchange, which has left more than two-thirds of citizens' personal data unsecured.
Solutions
Alner sells essentials, like shampoos, liquid soaps, and seasonings, in reusable bottles to wean households from goods sold in sachets.
Solutions
This entails shifting to greener farming practices, adopting the circular economy model, and protecting the well-being of farming communities.
Solutions
With 200 million monthly users, gaming platform Roblox is fertile ground for online learning initiatives targeting those born after 2010—the planet's youngest generation.
Solutions
The initiative seeks to bolster NGOs’ digital skills and capabilities in cybersecurity, data analytics, system automations, service delivery innovation, communications, and AI.
Report
This publication offers insights that advocate for SMEs as vital catalysts for urban resilience.
Solutions
Encompassing the whole life cycle of assets and every part of the value chain, PAS 2080 has a crucial role to play in decarbonizing the world’s buildings and infrastructure.
Solutions
Disruptive technologies will reshape industry, healthcare, and communications and provide urgently needed solutions to global challenges like climate change.
Report
This report reveals how to boost the subregion's development based on the countries' physical connectivity and cross-border trade, while also mapping a new corridor.
Solutions
To meet the net-zero emission scenario, demand for critical minerals is estimated to grow sixfold to 42.3 million tonnes in 2050 from 7.1 million tonnes in 2020.
Solutions
With their proven utility in existing industries, digital twins offer the potential to help organizations and society at large navigate upcoming changes to how we work and live.
Report
This working paper explores whether differentiated remedial teaching can improve the foundational numeracy skills of students in Indonesia.
Solutions
Addressing the gender disparity in entrepreneurship and the green sector in ASEAN requires targeted policies and initiatives.
Solutions
Allowing plants to grow on a building's exterior is a low-cost way of providing shade and lowering the need for cooling.
Report
This paper estimates that older people, especially older women, are doing a great deal of work caring for others.
Solutions
A grant-supported study is looking into the market potential of tradeable certificates and how countries can set up a regional system.
Solutions
With robots and AI seen to increase productivity, trade, and the creation of new skills, the forthcoming technological developments in robotics and AI need to be welcomed rather than discouraged.
Solutions
Effective dispute management and avoidance will improve the infrastructure ecosystem, reduce the risk for financiers, and enhance investor confidence in new projects.
News
This webinar aims to help NGOs bolster their digital capabilities.
Solutions
The International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that Asia will be a global leader in wind power and will account for over 60% of all offshore wind capacity installed globally by 2050.
Solutions
Policymakers, health and social sector planners, and ICT professionals shared lessons and best practices at a training program in Seoul.
News
The investment will support the government’s efforts to develop sustainable aquaculture, particularly large-scale farming of barramundi and seaweed.
Report
This paper examines scientific findings on climate change and formulates appropriate policies and strategies to adapt to and mitigate the worsening impacts of extreme weather events.
Solutions
To forge a responsible future for AI, every organization that creates or uses advanced AI systems will need to develop and implement its own governance systems.
Solutions
This would entail significant policy change, grant of incentives, and reskilling or upskilling of the region's workforce.
Solutions
Alner sells essentials, like shampoos, liquid soaps, and seasonings, in reusable bottles to wean households from goods sold in sachets.
With 200 million monthly users, gaming platform Roblox is fertile ground for online learning initiatives targeting those born after 2010—the planet's youngest generation.
This entails shifting to greener farming practices, adopting the circular economy model, and protecting the well-being of farming communities.
SEADS 2023 Highlights
Spotlight
ASEAN Policy Network
Amid increasing demand for knowledge from developing member countries (DMCs) in Southeast Asia, ADB's ASEAN Policy Network facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration within and between its operational and central knowledge departments and seeks to build relationships with academes, think tanks, research institutions, and other partners.
Southeast Asia Sustainable Tourism Hub
With Southeast Asia’s tourism industry still reeling from the impact of COVID-19, ADB is increasing its support for investments, capacity development, and knowledge to accelerate an inclusive and sustainable recovery.
Publications
This report explains how Southeast Asia can increase the manufacture of solar photovoltaic cells, batteries, and electric two-wheelers.
This publication offers insights that advocate for SMEs as vital catalysts for urban resilience.
This report reveals how to boost the subregion's development based on the countries' physical connectivity and cross-border trade.
Webinar Recordings
This webinar explored the transformative roles of SMEs and the need for closer collaboration between public sectors, especially local governments, and SMEs.
This webinar examined the relationship between financial inclusion and the cloud and explored the various financial services use-cases helping consumers in the Asia and the Pacific achieve financial inclusion.
These ADB webinars presented key findings from a study on the aviation sector's recovery in the wake of the pandemic. The webinars examined strategies aimed at helping the aviation sector fully recover and return to growth.
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Life-Course Immunisation for Older Adults in Asia: A Health Economics Case
10:00 am - 11:30 am
GMT+8 / Manila Time
Asian Development Bank and EU-ASEAN Business Council, supported by Sanofi
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2023
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Rethinking Harmony in Asia 2023
09:00 am - 04:00 pm
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Asian Network, with support from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Generation...
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Asia-Pacific Social Protection Week 2023: Social Protection in a Changing World (APSP)
08:00 am - 05:00 pm
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Asian Development Bank
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What is SEADS?
The Southeast Asia Development Solutions—SEADS—is a knowledge and innovation platform under the Asian Development Bank. In tandem with its partner program, the Southeast Asia Development Symposium, SEADS aims to help crystallize thinking on relevant and critical issues in the region, and support countries in becoming prosperous, knowledge-based, and sustainable.
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INNOVATIONS
Discover the latest cutting-edge breakthroughs that can help countries tackle pressing challenges.
SOLUTIONS
Hear from leading minds and trailblazers from industry, technology, the public sector, and academia.
CONNECTIONS
Interact with problem-solvers and next-generation thinkers from Southeast Asia and beyond.
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