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...

Myanmar

Ooredoo Myanmar starts digital literacy training programme with Google (Telecompaper)

Ooredoo Myanmar has signed a partnership agreement with Google Asia Pacific.  This article originally appeared on Telecompaper. You can view the original article here: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/ooredoo-myanmar-starts-digital-literacy-training-programme-with-google--1311273

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...

Myanmar

Change to Unicode expected to boost e-government plan (Myanmar Times)

The transition to Unicode, an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, is an important part of the E-Government Master Plan. Myanmar was ranked 157th in the...

Vietnam

Card payments in Vietnam set to hit 522.5m by 2023 (The Business Times)

Card payments in Vietnam are set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.8 per cent to hit 522.5 million transactions by 2023, GlobalData said in a...

Myanmar

Malaysian firm wins smart-city project in Yangon (Myanmar Times)

Berjaya Land Berhad, a subsidiary of Berjaya Corporation Berhad, one of the largest conglomerates in Malaysia, has won a tender for a proposed development project in Yangon. U Phyo Min Thein...

Vietnam

HCM City to be first city in VN to be fully covered by IoT network (MIC)

All of HCM City’s 24 districts will have Internet of Things (IoT) broadcasting stations installed this month, making the city the first place in Viet Nam to be fully covered...

Myanmar

Smart City in Myanmar: Opportunities and Challenges

Being the final frontier, Myanmar's government has a unique opportunity to learn from regional and international digital government experiences to leapfrog and develop a model that suits the Myanmar local...

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

Vietnam puts priority on artificial intelligence development (Inquirer)

Following the global trend, the Vietnamese government aims to turn AI into a driving force of development and make it a top priority in growth policies. One of the most...

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...

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

Vietnamese social media networks spring up to challenge Facebook (Nikkei Asian Review)

Vietnamese companies have started a string of new social networks in a bid to crack a sector dominated by Facebook, which boasts more than 60 million users out of a population...

Indonesia

Indonesia ready for greater cooperation with Singapore across industries: President Joko Widodo (CNA)

Indonesia currently has plans to build its longest sea bridge, connecting the islands of Batam and Bintan which are located near Singapore. The bridge will span seven kilometres with construction expected to...

Vietnam

IT firms expected to lead country’s digital transformation (Việt Nam News)

“The Vietnamese Government advocates fully tapping opportunities from Industry 4.0 in service of national digital transformation, making it easier for Việt Nam to escape the middle-income trap and become 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...

Indonesia

Indonesia's Digital Economy Attracts Global Investors: Minister (Tempo)

The Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) Minister Rudiantara thinks the USD 2 billion (Rp28 trillion) investment from SoftBank to Grab Indonesia shows that global investors see Indonesia as a potential digital market. This article originally...

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...