APCICT News

As part of the 2020 Girls in ICT Day celebration in Thailand, APCICT conducted a training based on its Women ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) programme under the Smart Farming Track to enhance digital skills of young women and girls in agriculture.  The virtual training aims to increase knowledge on the opportunities that digital technologies offer in catalyzing women’s entrepreneurship as well as to introduce emerging ICT tools and applications. 

APCICT organized a webinar on “Digital Technologies for Disaster Risk Management” (Virtual Launch of APCICT Academy Module on ICT for Disaster Risk Management) on Thursday, 27 August 2020, 1:30 PM (Bangkok time), 3:30 PM (Korea time).

The virtual launch of the APCICT Academy module on “ICT for Disaster Risk Management” introduced the newly developed contents by Dr. Cees Van Westen and Dr. Manzul Kumar Hazarika. It also provided an overview of how ICTs can be used for disaster risk management.

A demonstration session of APCICT’s e-learning course on “Realizing Data-Driven Governance (Russian language)” was conducted on 5 August 2020 to introduce the latest addition of e-learning course as well as to identify training needs of the North and Central Asian region. 

Realizing Data-Driven Governance course was designed to help government officials understand data-driven governance and enhance the use of data for evidence based decision-making policy.  

APCICT conducted a virtual seminar on “Digital Government Leadership” for senior level officials of the Republic of Maldives, from 20 July to 10 August 2020. The event was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology.

Event URL: https://bit.ly/viewAPCICTwebinar

ESCAP/APCICT organized a webinar on “How the Republic of Korea turned the tide on COVID-19 using ICT” on Tuesday, 28 April 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (Korea Time).

The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT) launched customized versions of its Women ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) Policymaker Module on “An Enabling Environment for ICT and Women Entrepreneurship” for Cambodia and Nepal on 2 February.

The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development (APCICT) released the online course ‘WIFI Policymaker Module: An Enabling Environment for Women Entrepreneurs’ last 2 March on APCICT Virtual Academy.

To support member States to enhance women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship as a strategy for poverty reduction, social wellbeing and sustainable economic growth towards the realisation of SDG 5 on Gender equality, ESCAP is implementing a five-year (2019-2023) regional programme on “Catalysing Women’s Entrepreneurship – Creating a Gender-Responsive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” funded by the Government of Canada. 

APCICT organized a Consultative meeting on “Capacity Building for Digital Development in Asia Pacific” on 27-28 November 2019 in Incheon, Republic of Korea.