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Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
The experience of a water utility in Manila shows that dividing a large network into smaller zones improves leak detection and distribution efficiency.
Rehabilitating natural systems with green infrastructure is key to building sustainability and resilience to climate change in urban areas.
Online learning initiatives fill the gap left by school and business closures and show the way forward after COVID-19.
Installing wire-rope barriers to separate opposing lanes of traffic can reduce fatal road accidents by 95%.
Governments should provide policy and financial support to industries that shift to remote or noncontact transactions to cope with COVID-19.
The Republic of Korea wants to help businesses to secure loans using movable assets, including goods, receivables, and intellectual property.
Managing household debt is becoming increasingly difficult for low-income households.
It is necessary to redesign private pension management fee schemes so companies have incentives to compete and develop better products.
Strengthen power systems against climate and other risks to minimize damage to infrastructure, disruption of service, and economic loss.