Frontier technologies represent a $350-billion market, with the potential grow to more than $3.2 trillion by 2025.
Deploying Frontier Technologies to Help Organizations Transition to Net Zero
Frontier technologies represent a $350-billion market, with the potential grow to more than $3.2 trillion by 2025.
10 Steps to Digital Transformation for Nonprofits
The digital transformation journey consists of three elements, known as the 3Ps: people, process, and platform and technology.
Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch—Could Gen AI Soon Be Added to Our List of Senses?
Generative AI could become like our seventh sense—that is, a natural and unconscious extension to the way we gather information and make decisions.
Call for Expressions of Interests: $15-Million Fund to Equip Asia's Workforce with AI Knowledge and Tools
The AI skilling initiative aims to ensure that jobs and roles presented by AI are accessible to more people in the region, specifically those from underserved communities.
Exploring Opportunities
for Clean Growth
in Malaysia
The Clean Growth Handbook Malaysia identifies opportunities to introduce or scale clean growth in four priority sectors—power, transport, buildings, and manufacturing.
Unveiling the Healing Secrets of Plants through Immersive Technologies
Through gamification, personalization, and socialization, these emerging technologies can spark action among users about protecting the environment
The AI Opportunity Fund to Build
an AI-Ready Workforce
in Asia–Pacific
The fund will invest in the development of critical AI skills and build confidence among workers and job-seekers, particularly those in underserved communities across the region.
Experts Talk Solutions: Annabel Lee
Podcast host Sothea Ros speaks to Annabel Lee, director of digital policy for Asia–Pacific and Japan, and ASEAN at Amazon Web Services, on the benefits of the Digital Economy Framework Agreement.
Latest News
Brief
This brief examines the overlooked links between climate migration and informal settlements, and highlights the need to upgrade informal settlements.
Solutions
The digital transformation journey consists of three elements, known as the 3Ps: people, process, and platform and technology.
Report
This study examines opportunities for digital financial inclusion for smallholder cocoa farmers in Indonesia.
Report
This brief examines how satellite imaging was used to map how irrigation changed agricultural production and improved the livelihoods of farmers.
Solutions
Generative AI could become like our seventh sense—that is, a natural and unconscious extension to the way we gather information and make decisions.
Paper
This paper sets out a policy agenda that aims to minimize AI’s energy and carbon costs while maximizing its benefits.
News
The AI skilling initiative aims to ensure that jobs and roles presented by AI are accessible to more people in the region, specifically those from underserved communities.
Report
This report highlights the work of ADB and its partners in cofinancing development in Asia and the Pacific in the past year.
Solutions
The Clean Growth Handbook Malaysia identifies opportunities to introduce or scale clean growth in four priority sectors—power, transport, buildings, and manufacturing.
Solutions
Through gamification, personalization, and socialization, these emerging technologies can spark action among users about protecting the environment
Solutions
The fund will invest in the development of critical AI skills and build confidence among workers and job-seekers, particularly those in underserved communities across the region.
Podcast
Annabel Lee, director of digital policy for Asia–Pacific and Japan, and ASEAN at Amazon Web Services, talks about DEFA and its potential to double the size of the region's digital economy.
Solutions
The Ministry of Health is rolling out reforms, including improving primary and referral care, addressing the shortage of medical specialists, and widening health access.
Solutions
Improving climate resilience is key to achieving Baguio's vision of becoming an inclusive and livable city.
Solutions
Addressing the region's digital divide, broadening digital economy participation, nurturing nascent sectors, and establishing the right policies are key.
Report
This brief tracks how Southeast Asian countries are using smart technologies to make their tourism sectors more competitive, inclusive, and sustainable.
Videos
Indonesia Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin talks about the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the groundbreaking initiatives the country adopted in response.
Solutions
The integration of metaverse technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence into classroom learning would help provide a more enriched learning experience.
Report
This brief shows how the project contributed nearly $90 million to the country’s GDP during construction, and is forecast to generate almost $14 million of annual earnings in the next 20 years.
Solutions
Thanks to a new PCB waste destruction facility, it now has the means to handle 20 tonnes of PCB-contaminated liquid waste and 10 tonnes of solid waste daily.
News
Southeast Asia advanced efforts to guide capital and funding toward sustainable activities across the region by defining green projects in the transportation and storage and construction and real estate sectors.
Solutions
There is no overwhelming proof that e-commerce has fully realized its potential for inclusive development.
Solutions
Closing loopholes in the regulation of alternative accommodations would benefit the travelers, the state, and property owners.
Report
This paper examines whether e-commerce has contributed to inclusive development.
News
The High-Level Policy Dialogue of the ASEAN Finance Ministers explored creating an ASEAN Climate Finance Policy Platform, with ADB's support, to help advance collective action in the battle against climate change.
Report
This report examines the progress of trade facilitation in Asia–Pacific and evaluates the impact of trade facilitation initiatives on trade costs and overall trade.
Solutions
The city of Hue in central Viet Nam is looking at nature-based solutions to balance historical asset conservation and urban development as well as enhance climate resilience.
Solutions
Tourism ministers in Southeast Asia have endorsed a holistic and long-term strategic plan to guide the sustainable development of the tourism industry.
Solutions
With parametric insurance, payouts can be made immediately after a typhoon, making it an effective tool to fund the rapid emergency restoration of coral reefs post damage.
Solutions
The Ministry of Health is rolling out reforms, including improving primary and referral care, addressing the shortage of medical specialists, and widening health access.
Improving climate resilience is key to achieving Baguio's vision of becoming an inclusive and livable city.
The integration of metaverse technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence into classroom learning would help provide a more enriched learning experience.
Podcast
Experts Talk Solutions
Insights and analyses on solutions, ideas, and best practices to help Southeast Asian economies become more prosperous, knowledge-based, and sustainable.
SEADS 2023 Highlights
Hubs
Southeast Asia Green Finance Hub
The Green Finance Hub provides crosscutting support to ADB’s developing member countries in Southeast Asia to accelerate green investments and advance innovative financing solutions in response to the region's climate, energy, and financing needs.
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 brief tracks how Southeast Asian countries are using smart technologies to make their tourism sectors more competitive, inclusive, and sustainable.
This brief shows how the project contributed nearly $90 million to the country’s GDP during construction, and is forecast to generate almost $14 million of annual earnings in the next 20 years.
This paper examines whether e-commerce has contributed to inclusive development.
Webinar Recordings
This webinar examined the obstacles of the uneven adaptation-mitigation funding and the implications for the region.
The webinar examined the barriers affecting women’s participation in STEM and industries relevant to STEM.
This webinar discussed the breakthroughs in technology that foster inclusivity and participation. It also looked into the role of AI and assistive technologies in dismantling barriers to accessibility.
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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.
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.
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