Announcements

The Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will hold the Second Regional Land Forum in Bangkok on 28-30 May. For more details, please visit here ...

The second Asian and Pacific Energy Forum (APEF2) aims to focus on the region’s implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7). The Forum will review the progress achieved in the Asia-Pacific region in addressing energy security challenges, assess the outlook based on scenarios and discuss ...

The global open data community is invited to submit proposals for sessions to be included in the agenda for the 2018 International Open Data Conference to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 27-28, 2018. Under the Theme “The Future is Open”, IODC 2018 will once ...

The Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will focus on the theme, ‘Transformations towards sustainable and resilient societies’.  In addition to discussing the theme of the July 2018 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2018) as it relates to regional and ...

“The migration for adaptation guide” helps development practitioners integrate human mobility into their work. Guide users can integrate migration and translocality into community-based adaptation; use suggested methods and activities to explore and analyze migration patterns in their project area. In the end, they will be able to ...

Global Development Network (GDN)’s 18th Global Development Conference, titled ‘Science, Technology and Innovation for Development,’ will be held in New Delhi on 22-23 March, 2018.  The conference will be a forum where global actors from governments, research, private sector and civil society can share knowledge and practices on ...

The Mekong Tourism Forum 2018 will take place from 26-29 June 2018 at Nakhon Phanom University.  MTF 2018 continues its objective from MTF 2017 to be inclusive and experiential. Similar as in Luang Prabang, where over 50 travel operators and tourism organisations were part in making the destination ...

The 6th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit will be held at National Convention Center in Vietnam’s capital city of Ha Noi on 29 – 31 March 2018. The Sixth GMS Summit of Leaders, hosted by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, carries the theme “Leveraging ...

UNESCO Hackathon at FOSSASIA Summit will take place from Saturday March 24, to Sunday March 25, 2018 at the Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore. The event aims to bring together forward thinking citizens with innovators, hackers, scientists, and makers from around the world in Asia, create open ...

The Mekong Innovative Startups in Tourism (MIST) is one of the key features of the 2018 Mekong Tourism Forum. The MIST, scheduled for 26-27 June 2018, covers: -Workshops for tourism startups (by invitation via MIST) (Request Invitation at MIST <link to http://mist.asia/contact/) -MIST Connect – for travel operator and ...