OCTOBER - 201919INSIGHTSCIOThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) is not a commercial bank. Rather, we are a development bank that makes loans, gives grants and makes investments in countries and entities in the Asia and Pacific region. In 2018, our commitments reached $21.6 billion. I am proud of ADB's vision to achieve a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Digital Agenda Drives Digital Technology Adoption From a digital technology perspective, we support and enable the organization to deliver its seven operational priorities: financial inclusion, addressing remaining poverty and reducing inequalities, accelerating gender equality, making cities more livable, strengthening governance and institutional capacity, and fostering regional cooperation and integration. These digital technologies come in many forms: from enabling digital identities in remote, impoverished areas to enhancing organizational resiliency, to having access to knowledge services, and to real-time data in our operations.We recently launched our Digital Agenda 2030 roadmap that focuses on reforming, modernizing and driving digital transformation to address business challenges. Priorities of this ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: USING EMERGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE COMMON GOODShirin HamidBY Shirin Hamid, CIO, & CTO, Asian Development Bank
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