The conference, in collaboration between the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Asian Development Bank Institute, aims to bring together policy makers, financial sector supervisors and regulators, financial institutions, financial technology (FinTech) companies, academia, as well as financial sector experts to discuss the growing importance of FinTech in shaping the financial system of the new […]
New FinTech-enabled solutions driven by the increasingly ubiquitous and affordable mobile internet are reinventing financial services available to the poor. Making sense of this rapidly changing space can be overwhelming to development practitioners. USAID Regional Development Mission with support from Social Impact Inc. organises again a learning event will help sort out the fiction from […]
Jost Wagner facilitated the symposium on addressing the drug economy through wider development agenda in Luang Prabang on behalf of UNODC on 22 -23 November 2016. Senior government officials, international and civil society partners active across the Mekong region, along with representatives of the Myanmar Peace Centre, the Thai Royal Project and Mae Fah Luang […]
Next generation technologies have the potential to serve as a tool for stability as well as an accelerator for growth and empowerment. This is especially true for migrant communities (including diaspora, trafficked, refugees, and displaced populations) and ethnic or cultural minorities (including lesbian, gay,bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations). Through the use of emerging technologies,innovative thinking, new […]
Jost Wagner facilitates from 18-19th of August two days of strategic thinking with the senior technical staff of the United Nations Organization for Drugs and Crime ROSEAP. UNODC Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ROSEA) has a team of over 150 providing advice and technical assistance related to the rule of law, non-traditional security threats, law […]
Recently, GIZ organised the 3rd Regional Policy Dialogue on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), together with the ASEAN Secretariat and Thailand´s Office of the Vocational Education Commission (OVEC). The conference was aimed at creating a common understanding of quality and quality assurance in TVET and in TVET personnel development, exchanging on key success […]
Jost Wagner worked for the 4th time with the Social Impact Inc. team on a conference on Transformational Finance as a process consultant and co-facilitator for the 3-day event. To catalyze increased engagement between the development and science and technology communities USAID has launched the Frontiers workshop series, focused on exploring emerging opportunities at the […]
The Regional TVET Conference is an event originally initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The third TVET Conference brought together key stakeholders from politics as well as senior representatives from the business community, international agencies and civil society to discuss how to manage the AEC integration by enhancing inclusive […]
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