Philippines

IoT Strategies and Implementations to Speed Up Digital Transformation in the Philippines – Day 1 of Asia IoT Business Platform Philippines 2019

The 30th Edition of Asia IoT Business Platform, co-organised by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), started off with DICT Undersecretary Eliseo Mijares Rio who delivered the Government...

Vietnam

Vietnam, Indonesia lead ASEAN in internet economy growth (Vietnam Plus)

Vietnam's digital economy has topped 12 billion USD this year and is expected to surge to 43 billion USD by 2025, with e-commerce, online tourism, online communications and media, and...

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia’s internet economy booming (The ASEAN Post)

Southeast Asia’s internet economy has reached US$100 billion for the first time and is expected to triple by 2025. Southeast Asia currently has 360 million internet users, an increase of 100...

ASEAN

Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines named as likely 5G laggards (Nikkei Asian Review)

Management consulting firm A.T. Kearney published a report in late September that projected that 5G penetration will reach at most 40% within almost all of the 10 countries of the...

Southeast Asia

SE Asia’s digital economy may treble to US$300b by 2025, S’pore ‘punching above weight’: Report (Today Online)

With the rise of e-commerce, ride hailing and online gaming in South-east Asia, the region’s Internet economy could swell to US$300 billion (about S$415 billion) by 2025, three times its...

Vietnam

Việt Nam ready to embrace Industry 4.0 (Việt Nam News)

Việt Nam is taking strong actions from the central to the grassroots level to speed up the application of Industry 4.0 technology, making changes in fields of production, business, cultural...

Vietnam

The Race of Building Smart Cities in Vietnam

A report published by the United Nations in January shows that in the past 5 years, Vietnam's e-government development index has jumped 11 ranks, making Vietnam among the top countries...

Asia Pacific

Challenges loom for Asia’s digital landscape (Inquirer)

Last week, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released its first ever annual Digital Economy Report (2019). “Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines have the scale, with populations over...

Vietnam

Making a breakthrough transformation to drive Vietnam towards a Digital Vietnam

This year, the Ministry of Information and Communication is drafting the Prime Minister’s Decision on National Digital Transformation Project to make a breakthrough transformation to drive Vietnam towards a Digital...

Vietnam

Digital economy for an inclusive ASEAN Community (Việt Nam News)

Ride-hailing firm Grab unveiled an ambitious plan to invest US$500 million in Việt Nam over the next five years, just a month after it announced an investment of $2 billion...

Indonesia

Kimia Farma and Pertamina Win the Enterprise Innovation Award (Bisnis)

Kimia Farma and Pertamina ranks among the more than 30 candidates and won the annual Enterprise Innovation Award held by the Asia IoT Business Platform. Launched in 2017, the Enterprise Innovation...

Indonesia

Asia IoT Business Platform 2019 focuses on the Indonesian 4.0 initiative (Kontan)

Asia IoT Business Platform highlighted the challenges faced by local companies and public service agencies in adopting and implementing IoT, as well as in completing digital transformation projects. This article...

Indonesia

Digitalisation Projects in Indonesia - Key Discussion Points from Day 1 Asia IoT Business Platform Indonesia 2019

Day 1 of the 32nd edition of Asia IoT Business Platform in Jakarta, Indonesia demonstrated opportunities for local digitalisation within the enterprise space, with conversations across various aspects of digital transformation from...

Vietnam

Minister Nguyen Manh Hung: "Digital transformation is making your life better" (Vietnam Net)

Besides the great benefits, digital conversion also has certain challenges. The minister said that the biggest challenge in this process is that new relationships arise, whether to accept the new relationships...

Indonesia

Moved, These are 5 Advantages of East Kalimantan as the New Capital (KOMPAS)

Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning (ATR) Sofyan Djalil said the location of the new capital of Indonesia was in the Province of East Kalimantan (East Kalimantan). There are 5...

Indonesia

AI, IoT, to VR Increase National Industry Productivity (Warta Ekonomi)

The Minister of Industry explained, Indonesia already has a road map in readiness to enter the industrial era 4.0. This is stated in Making Indonesia 4.0, which was launched by President Jokowi...

Vietnam

Việt Nam wants to have 10 tech “unicorns” in 2030 (Việt Nam News)

Việt Nam wants to have at least five billion-dollar tech firms (unicorns) by 2025 and 10 by 2030 as planned in its draft on national strategy on the Fourth Industrial...

Indonesia

Indonesia’s new capital to be developed as smart, forest city: Minister (The Jakarta Post)

"The development of the new capital will attract the world’s attention as we will build the new capital city in Kalimantan. But we can assure that we will build a...

Thailand

Digitalisation Projects in Thailand - Key Discussion Points from day 1 of Asia IoT Business Platform Thailand 2019

In the Government Keynote Address delivered by Ms. Ajarin Pattanapanchai, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, she highlighted five primary sectors with examples of IoT...

Taiwan

Taiwan has the potential to inspire ICT development in the country (Manila Bulletin)

With the rise of AI and IoT, Taiwan is shifting from an economy based on high-tech manufacturing, to an economy driven by intellectual property and innovation. Taiwan’s high-tech competitiveness includes...