SEARCA, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) will be convening the second Knowledge Sharing Workshop for the “Project on Enhancing Food Supply Chain Resilience and Food Security in ASEAN with Utilization of Digital Technologies.” The workshop will be conducted online via Zoom on 26 April 2021 (Monday), at 9:00 AM (GMT+7 Jakarta).
Building on the outputs of the first Knowledge Sharing Workshop last February, this online workshop intends to further look into the experiences of ASEAN member states (AMS) on utilizing digital technologies in the food and agriculture sector and discuss their inputs and suggestions for developing the ASEAN Guideline on the Utilization of Digital Technologies for ASEAN Food and Agricultural Sector, the third component of the project which is being implemented by SEARCA. The ASEAN guidelines aims to equip the ASEAN region with recommendations and implementation considerations for making informed decisions that will shape the digital transformation of agriculture in the region.
In this workshop, SEARCA will be presenting the results of the survey on adopting digital technologies along with the initial draft of the ASEAN guidelines. Experts from Singapore and Japan will also be on hand to share their experiences on the digitalization in the ASEAN agri-food sector and their various initiatives on smart agriculture. Government officials from the agriculture and trade ministries of the AMSs along with other stakeholders are expected to join this event.