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Time of event
Day 1: 10:30–15:05 Tokyo time/08:30–13:05 Jakarta time
Day 2: 10:30–14:40 Tokyo time/08:30–12:40 Jakarta time
Summary
Quality infrastructure growth that fosters technological innovation and economic resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness could provide a timely boost to COVID-19 recovery across Asia and the Pacific. Building policy and financing capacity will be essential to maximizing these dynamics.
This interactive ADBI-University of Indonesia-University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy-Toshiba International Foundation policy dialogue explored the role of infrastructure, technology, and finance in enabling sustainable and inclusive post-pandemic economies in Asia and the Pacific.
Particular focus was on how quality infrastructure can both promote, and benefit from, the wider adoption of new technologies, as well as COVID-19 era infrastructure policy and financing challenges and solutions.
Objectives
- Examine infrastructure, technology, and finance keys to advancing COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific
- Assess digitalization and infrastructure development trends, and their potential to support sustainable and inclusive economies
- Spotlight regional case studies and lessons learned
Participants
- Policy makers from Asian Development Bank developing member countries
- Experts from think tanks, universities, and international organizations
- Interested members of the public
Output
- Enhanced understanding of the role of infrastructure, technology, and finance in building sustainable and inclusive post-COVID-19 economies
- Identification of measures to harness digitalization and quality infrastructure development
- Greater impetus for policy dialogue and collaboration within the sector
Partners
- University of Indonesia
- University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy
- Toshiba International Foundation
Conference Presentations
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Session 1.1: Social Infrastructure in Asia: Selected Issues |
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Session 1.2: Needs for Social Infrastructure in Asia |
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Session 1.3: Impact of COVID-19 on Social Infrastructure in Asia |
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Session 2.1: Quality of Infrastructure Services in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cambodia |
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Session 2.2: Quality of Health Services Infrastructure in Viet Nam |
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Session 2.3: Infrastructure, Technology and Finance for Sustainable and Inclusive Development in Asia beyond the Pandemic |
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Session 2.4: Infrastructure, Technology, and Finance for Sustainable and Inclusive Development in Asia beyond the Pandemic |
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Keynote Speech: The Role of Technology for Sustainable and Inclusive Development |
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Session 3.1: The Role of Technology for Public Infrastructure Development |
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Session 3.3: The Role of Technology in Improving Public Infrastructure Outputs: The Current Context |
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Session 4.1: The Role of Technology and Financing for Quality Infrastructure Services: COVID-19, Thailand, and the Platform |
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Session 4.2: Technology in Korea Smart City |
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Session 4.3: Financing Infrastructure in the Philippines in the Time of the Pandemic |