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The key to fulfilling the potential of the metaverse in education is delivering lasting and meaningful benefits to students worldwide. Photo credit: iStock/Userba011d64_201.
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Reimagining Learning in the Metaverse

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.
Generative AI can make organizing travel breezier and more pleasurable, for example by creating a hyper-personalized experience for the consumer. Photo credit: iStock/BongkarnThanyakij.
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Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch—Could Gen AI Soon Be Added to Our List of Senses?

Generative AI has the power to transform most industries and could become such an unconscious part of our approach to technology that it functions like a seventh sense.
The program is rolled out in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. Photo credit: ADB.
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Mastercard and Grab Launch 'Small Business, Big Dreams' Program to Boost Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia

The initiative aims to digitally upskill gig economy workers and small businesses in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam.
As COVID-19 changes the way consumers spend and supply chains function, upskilling business owners has become more urgent. Photo credit: ADB.
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In the Wake of COVID-19, Small Business Support Programs Need to Deliver at Scale

Without an unyielding waterfall of money, philanthropy organizations should adopt new approaches and new ways of thinking and doing in supporting entrepreneurs.
The transformative nature of simple advances such as connecting people to services and opportunities through affordable smartphones is just as significant as the remarkable progress we are seeing in artificial intelligence. Photo credit: iStock/imtmphoto.
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It’s Not Always about the Next Big Thing: How 'Innovations of Necessity' are Reshaping Asia

Across Asia, there are examples of how iterative, necessary innovations, like affordable smartphones, are positively impacting people’s lives.