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.

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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.

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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. 

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From Poverty
to Prosperity:
The Power of Green Entrepreneurship
in ASEAN

Green enterprises help fight poverty by creating jobs and adopting sustainable practices.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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An Alner customer buying her daily necessities in reusable container from a convenience store in Indonesia.

Alner sells essentials, like shampoos, liquid soaps, and seasonings, in reusable bottles to wean households from goods sold in sachets.

An avatar of an urban farmer.

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.

A woman tending to crops.

This entails shifting to greener farming practices, adopting the circular economy model, and protecting the well-being of farming communities.

SEADS 2023 Highlights

Spotlight

INO Gj Sumatra
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.

Climbers on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia.
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

Renewable Energy Manufacturing: Opportunities for Southeast Asia report cover.

This report explains how Southeast Asia can increase the manufacture of solar photovoltaic cells, batteries, and electric two-wheelers.

A Point of View: Empowering SMEs for Urban Resilience

This publication offers insights that advocate for SMEs as vital catalysts for urban resilience.

Review and Assessment of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle Economic Corridors: Integrative Report cover.

This report reveals how to boost the subregion's development based on the countries' physical connectivity and cross-border trade. 

Webinar Recordings

Empowering SMEs for Urban Resilience

This webinar explored the transformative roles of SMEs and the need for closer collaboration between public sectors, especially local governments, and SMEs.

Achieving Financial Inclusion Through the Cloud

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.

Southeast Asia’s Aviation Sector: Post-Pandemic Strategies and the Implications of a Rapid Recovery recording.

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.

Featured Events

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.

Sowing SEADS of Growth

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.