Announcements
Global Meeting on Big Data Analytics and Data Processing
Conference series LTD cordially invites all participants across the globe to attend the Global Meeting on Big Data Analytics and Data Processing which is going to be held during January 30-31,2019 in Bangkok,Thailand to share the Future Technologies for Knowledge Discoveries in Data” and technology. ...
Connecting the Dots: Measuring and Increasing Data Use for Better Governance
There are many steps between producing and using data for policy making and more effective governance. Most of the efforts to increase data use, historically, has been placed in opening more datasets without thought to how people measure the uptake and use of such datasets. ...
Asia-Pacific AI Social Impact Summit
Organised by ESCAP and hosted by the Government of Thailand, the Summit will explore how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to promote social and economic impact and meet the Sustainable Development Goals. It will showcase research and spark discussion on creating an enabling environment for ...
Hydropower dams of the Mekong River basin: A review of their hydrological impacts
Hydropower production is altering the Mekong River basin’s riverine ecosystems, which contain the world’s largest inland fishery and provide food security and livelihoods to millions of people. This paper aims to synthesize and critically review existing knowledge regarding observed and projected hydrological alterations caused by ...
Where Do Our Taxes Go? : Thailand Government Spending
Digital Government Development Agency (Public Organization) published the platform “Thailand Government Spending” to reveal information related to tax revenues, budgets, and procurement in the public sector. Please visit here for more detail. ...
Structural transformation and poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific countries with special needs
Despite steady economic growth in recent decades, the countries with special needs (CSN) in Asia and the Pacific continue to grapple with high rates of extreme income poverty. This is particularly the case in LDCs such as Timor-Leste (30%), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (23%), and ...
Lao PDR: 8th Five-Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2016–2020)
The 8th National Socio-Economic Development Plan is the Lao PDR’s guiding strategic document. It paves the way towards the graduation from Least Developed Countries (LDC) status and lays a strong foundation for the achievement of the National Strategy on Socio-Economic Development 2025 and the Vision ...
Announcement: 2018 Mahidol University Postgradute Scholarships for Graduate International Students
Mahidol University – a Thai university – is offering 50 full scholarships and 450 partial scholarships for international students to study MA or PhD programs.MA in ASEAN Studies for Sustainable Development (MASD) is accepting applications for January 2019 semester.Application period: 10 October -15 November 2018.Please ...
A Panel discussion and forum on Dams, disaster and ecological justice: hydropower legacies in the Mekong
The recent tragic collapse of an auxiliary dam of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower project, under construction in southern Laos, drew global attention to the escalation in dam-building in the country and across the lower Mekong Basin.This man-made disaster killed at least 40 people and displaced ...
An exhibition on ‘Disrupted World...Let’s change Thailand’s education to achieve Sustainable Development Goals: SDGs’
Join many educational and learning activities such as lecture, presentation, panel discussion, the learning space, activities and exhibitions of development partners for educational reform.Date: Thursday, 25 October 2018 10.00 a.m.Location: Bangkok Art and Culture CentreFor register, please click here. ...
