Announcements

Together with the USAID Asia CTIP project, we continue our COVID-19 rapid response webinar series to discuss challenges, needs, and possible solutions for organizations working with already-vulnerable populations during this time. We also hope these discussions serve as a way for practitioners in the region ...

This toolkit is for anyone intending to upload or share any datasets as open data on the Open Development Mekong’s (ODM) datahub. It is meant to be used to help guide users of ODM’s datahub through a process of assessing the risks and benefits involved with ...

The U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur, in partnership with TechSoup, will host the YSEALI Regional Workshop on Good Governance and Civil Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 19 – 23, 2020. The workshop aims to build capacity among 100 youth leaders across ASEAN and Timor Leste who are currently ...

The EarthRights School prepares the next generation of earth rights defenders to draw on the power of their communities to protect their rights, resources and livelihoods. Most students come from indigenous and rural communities and have experienced environmental and human rights abuses firsthand in their ...

HERE, in partnership with IBM and many others is hosting #HackForBetterDays,  a 30-day Asia-Pacific wide virtual hackathon for building web/mobile apps and interactive, informative maps to help communities with the challenges caused by COVID19. The hack kicks off on 24th April 5pm AEST. During the ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) today launched a revitalised online data service platform that assembles, analyses, and visualises data about the health and condition of the Mekong River.  The platform, called MRC’s Data and Information Services Portal or Data Portal, is designed to help governments, development practitioners, private ...

Please join the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund for “Introduction to Global Forest Watch Resources for Journalists,” a webinar discussing Global Forest Watch (GFW). The webinar will feature World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia and introduce GFW, a global forest monitoring database that uses innovative technology to help identify when, where, and ...

Announcement from the ASEAN Foundation! We are pleased to inform you that we are currently opening a Call for Application for our ASEAN Data Science Explorers (ADSE) 2020 programme‘s competition. Therefore, we would like to encourage you to invite your students and youth fellows to join ...

Building on the successful experiences of previous years, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to host the “Open Data Day 2020” in the first week of March. This year, we will focus on the global open data day theme: Open Data for Equal Development. As part ...

Justice and Peace Netherlands is launching a new call for human rights defenders at risk to participate in the Shelter City initiative around March 2020.   Shelter City offers human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk a possibility for rest and respite by letting them escape temporarily from a ...