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USASCP Launches $3 Million Business Innovation Fund 2.0
The U.S. Department of State, through its U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP), is pleased to announce the launch of the $3 million Smart Cities Business Innovation Fund 2.0 (BIF 2.0), in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute. This initiative aims to support micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in ASEAN member states pioneering innovative, carbon-neutral…
USASCP Support Enables Plastics Recycling Company Growth
Ms. Viengvilay Phimmasone, co-founder and director of Patihoub, stands with three employees and USASCP Program Manager Ms. Helen Santiago Fink, at the Patihoub factory. The walls enclosing the factory are made of Patihoub’s primary product, recycled plastic boards. USASCP Program Manager, Helen Santiago Fink, visited Patihoub, a plastics recycling company, in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR.…
USASCP Scopes Nature-Based Solution Pilot Site in Vientiane
The U.S. delegation and the Vientiane City Office for Management and Service had a working session to review the proposed pilot project. USASCP Program Manager, Helen Santiago Fink, joined staff and partners from the Water Smart Engagement (WiSE) program to survey and scope the proposed site for a nature-based trickling filter system in Vientiane, Lao…
PolyGone Holds Grand Opening for Microplastic Removal Pilot at ACUA
Read about the groundbreaking microplastics research that PolyGone is doing around capturing and removing microplastics from water, bolstering both human and environmental health.
Media Note: Digital Innovations for Female Entrepreneurs in ASEAN Meeting
The U.S. Department of State hosted the Digital Innovations for Female Entrepreneurs in ASEAN Meeting (DIFEM) in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) on September 11-12, 2024, as a part of the U.S.-ASEAN Connect Digital Economy Series. The DIFEM event supports Lao PDR’s ASEAN chair year efforts to meet 2024 priority economic deliverables by making progress…
February 24, 2025 – February 28, 2025
U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) – Green Buildings: Sustainable Datacenters & AI
Singapore
The U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) will host a Green Buildings: Sustainable Datacenters and AI workshop with in-person training sessions from February 24 to 28, 2025, in Singapore. The course aims to analyze AI in public policy and development, and data privacy and security considerations. It will also include a focus on the application…
March 10, 2025 – March 14, 2025
U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) – Cybersecurity
Singapore
The U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) will host a Cybersecurity workshop with in-person training sessions from March 10 to 14 2025, in Singapore. This course aims to be a complementary effort to the existing ASEAN initiatives and to provide a platform for sharing best practices nationally, regionally, and internationally on cybersecurity.
The U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership seeks to meet the varied challenges of rapid urbanization and help improve the lives of people in the region through collaboration.
The U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) is a collaboration between the U.S. public and private sectors with the 26 pilot cities of the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN). Programs and activities are developed to promote engagement in smart sustainable city solutions and to advance the digital and circular economies in ASEAN cities, share best practices between U.S. cities and their ASEAN counterparts, and strengthen regional cybersecurity at the sub-national level.
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Integrated Urban Services
Systems integration project to educate stakeholders on circular economy approaches to enhance resource recovery and reuse and on opportunities to develop integrated models of basic urban services and food provision.
