Improving productivity in healthcare is crucial for reducing costs and enhancing patient care. Embracing technology can enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and optimize resource use in the healthcare sector. Technological integration can streamline administrative and care processes, personalize patient interactions, automate tasks, and allow clinicians to focus on complex procedures, leading to better healthcare outcomes (Deloitte, […]

Job redesign refers to the reformation of work tasks and responsibilities to optimize processes and employee allocation for enhanced quality and productivity. While digital technologies support the workforce, and diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial elements for innovation and profitability, as a 2023 WEF report indicated, it is necessary to rethink and restructure how work […]

Building upon the results of a need and readiness assessment survey for CSA technologies conducted in 2023, a preparatory study mission by NARO as the COE on CSA for the implementation of a pilot project in Thailand was organized 23–26 April 2024. The mission introduced the soil carbon sequestration visualization tool and carbon credit methodology […]

Rural areas face unique challenges such as limited access to markets, education, and decent jobs, resulting in a continuous influx of populations into cities and aging rural communities. The Future of Asian & Pacific Cities Report 2023 issued by UN ECSAP and Habitat listed issues of rapid urbanization such as social inequality, food security, environmental […]

With the support of a special cash grant from the Government of Japan, the APO initiated a demonstration farm project in October 2022 on Improvement of Productivity in Greenhouse Vegetable Production. This project aims to demonstrate microclimate control systems used by Japanese greenhouses and help farmers in Vietnam utilize the systems. This will promote labor […]