The APO COE on IT for Industry 4.0, established in 2017, promotes the adoption of Industry 4.0, AI, and related digital technologies for productivity improvement through a range of capacity-building, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. In 2025, activities focused on developing the APO I4AI Framework, together with Need and Readiness Self-assessment (NRSA), Diagnostic Assessment Framework, training […]
Launched in 2023, the APO COE on Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA), hosted by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan, set among its first objectives the visualization of agricultural GHG emissions and the strengthening of APO members’ capacity to design and implement effective mitigation strategies. In 2024, efforts focused on CO2 through soil carbon […]