Malaysia

Mobility: A key aspect in Malaysia’s Smart City Plans

Malaysia is the 3rd largest economy in Southeast Asia. GDP growth has been strong, with 2018 growth rate forecasted to come in at 5.4%. According to the Nielsen Global Survey...

Vietnam

Vietnam marches toward 5G despite warnings about early deployment (VietNamNet)

The first license for 5G, the fifth-generation mobile technology, IMT 2020, has been granted to the military telco Viettel. The experiments will be carried out in 73 places in Hanoi...

Indonesia

Digital trade to be biggest support for Indonesian economy by 2030 (The Jakarta Post)

Indonesia’s digital trade is expected to be the biggest support for the country’s economy by 2030, by helping commodities and manufacturing goods, as well as services, gain greater online market...

Thailand

Thailand tops global digital rankings (Bangkok Post)

Thailand ranked No.1 for mobile banking users, second for ownership of cryptocurrency, and third in mobile commerce, according to the Global Digital Report 2019. There are 92 million mobile subscribers, 133%...

Malaysia

MARii opens first satellite in Sabah (Borneo Post)

MARii’s first centre outside of the Klang Valley opened in Kota Kinabalu yesterday, its first ever under the MARii Satellite network, to allow for more extensive reach for technology adoption...

Malaysia

Malaysia second country to run Facebook’s Terragraph trials (The Star)

Malaysia is the second country in the world after Hungary to run trials for Terragraph, a new wireless technology, says Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo. Terragraph is the underlying...

Malaysia

Digital Economy: Malaysia’s Transformation in Retail and e-Commerce

In recent years, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been experiencing accelerated economic growth in recent years, and is expected to be the fourth largest economy in the...

Philippines

8th common tower provider joins pool (The Philippine Star)

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with MGS Construction Inc., bringing the number of interested common tower providers in the country...

Malaysia

Malaysia in right direction for Digital ID — MCMC (The Edge Markets)

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has assured that Malaysia is dealing in the right direction on Digital ID project, said its Head of Division, Digital Services and Data...

ASEAN

Summary of Discussions from Asia IoT Business Platform 2019, Singapore

Asia IoT Business Platform hosted 2019 launchpad regional event in Singapore on 15 January 2019, gathering government representatives and key enterprises from Southeast Asia. The gathering was kick-started by the keynote...

Malaysia

Malaysia, first Asian country to initiate Alibaba Netpreneur training programme (The Star)

Malaysia will be the first Asian country, outside China, to initiate the Alibaba Netpreneur Training Programme from March 23, 2019 to April 3, 2019, which will complement the ongoing Electronic...

ASEAN

DIS to be critical for national digital economic transformation (Telecom Asia)

New services such as mobile payments and eCommerce have the potential to transform the payments and retail industry, reducing (eventually removing) cash and re-purposing the traditional retail space. This article...

Indonesia

Riding the wave of Asia's technological disruption (The Jakarta Post)

Less than half of the population in the region has access to the internet, Information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure is required to jumpstart the digital revolution.  This article originally...

Thailand

Smart buses a priority for Democrats (Bangkok Post)

The Democrat Party rolled out its policy platform Sunday, aimed at upgrading Bangkok residents' quality of life, including a smart bus project to push for 5,000 electric buses in seven...

Malaysia

Grab launches regional centre — targets to create 400 jobs (The Malaysian Reserve)

Grab has launched its new Regional Centre of Excellence where it will house its core business strategies and operational functions, with an aim to create 400 jobs within the year. The new...

Malaysia

Realizing Industry4wrd in Malaysia

Malaysia has taken steps to digitally transform its economic drivers with a vision of being a global digital economy leader and regional tech startup hub. The 4IR is especially crucial...

Malaysia

MITI to collaborate with Grab, Google to propel SMEs (The Malaysian Reserve)

E-HAILING provider Grab Holdings Inc and Google LLC are expected to collaborate with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in an initiative that is aimed at enhancing small...

Malaysia

SMEs still not using digitalisation enablers (The Edge Markets)

Although Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are receptive to using digital technologies to enhance their businesses in general, they are still not availing themselves of digitalisation enablers such as...

Malaysia

Industry 4.0 Blueprint on readiness assessment finalised, says Miti (The Star)

The Industry 4.0 Blueprint or Industry4WRD assessment guidelines to assess manufacturing companies’ readiness for Industry 4.0 has been finalised. A sum of RM210mil has been allocated from 2019 to 2021 to...

Southeast Asia

Powering Smart City Developments in South East Asia

Southeast Asia is expected to become the world’s 4th largest economy by 2030 with projected growth rates of 5.2% between 2018 and 2022. As urbanisation and industrialisation in ASEAN increases,...