An Open Digital Innovation Lab
for the Mekong
Connecting AI, technology, communities, data, and ideas to shape a resilient future.
Our story, in motion
We are living through an age of converging crises. Border tensions are rising. The global shift away from fossil fuels is reshaping economies and creating new pressures. Forests and ecosystems are disappearing at alarming speed. Food systems are under strain. And development financing is no longer sufficient to match the scale and urgency of the challenges before us.
The old model of development, slow, fragmented, and confined within institutional silos, is no longer enough. We cannot solve today’s interconnected problems with yesterday’s disconnected approaches.
AI represents the next evolution in how we approach development. It is not here to replace human judgment, but to strengthen it. AI can help us see patterns earlier, make better decisions faster, and respond with greater precision, coordination, and care.
But technology alone is not the answer. The future must be built together. Communities, scientists, governments, youth, and innovators must work side by side, combining AI with lived experience, local wisdom, and sound science.
Our mission is clear: build quickly, test rapidly, learn openly, and scale what works. The future will belong to those who can connect people, knowledge, and technology fast enough to transform crisis into resilience, and innovation into hope.
OneMekong is a regional platform that brings together innovators, communities, organizations and partners across the Mekong to co-create digital solutions powered by AI and data. We work openly across borders to make rivers, food systems, livelihoods and learning more resilient — for the people who depend on them today and the generations who will inherit them.
About Us
Protecting rivers and ecosystems using smart technology and data.
Strengthening climate resilience and disaster preparedness.
Promoting smart agriculture and food systems for sustainable livelihoods.
Improving connectivity and digital infrastructure across the region.
Empowering youth and building future skills through digital innovation.
Targets · 2030