Science and technology
ID Capital ties up with ADB to launch agritech startup accelerator for Mekong region
Singapore-based venture capital company ID Capital has partnered with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and government of Australia to launch an agritech startup accelerator. Named Mekong Agriculture Technology Challenge Startup Accelerator (MATCh), it is aimed at innovative early-stage agritech startups and traditional agriculture businesses with ...
Thailand lags in fintech development in Asia
Thailand ranks seventh out of 10 Asian countries in a Taiwanese consulting firm’s FinTech Competitiveness Index. The country, however, outperforms Malaysia and only lags behind Singapore in terms of regulatory advancement. Keep reading ...
SUCHIT LEESA-NGUANSUK
The data commons: What lies ahead for the Mekong region?
Open data access and sharing in the Mekong is spreading. Open data can increase public participation, aid greater transparency in government, and improve resource governance, city planning or public health monitoring. A number of initiatives, both private sector and civil society, are emerging. However, a ...
Mai Lan
MBI programme fosters ag startups
The Mekong Business Initiative (MBI) launched a new startup accelerator programme aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the agriculture sector in the Mekong region, with specific focuses on international companies eyeing expansion and early-stage local agritech startups, the head of the initiative said yesterday.Keep reading ...
Robin Spiess
Harnessing digitization to power up governance in Asean
[] Asean faces some key challenges that will test the resilience of governments: business and tech life cycles are moving at a faster pace; the rise of the disruptive platforms and their impact on services; use of data analytics to engage citizens; the rise of ...
Claus Andresen
Startups tapped to rescue disaster-prone ASEAN region
From crowdfunding platforms to drones, chatbots, and artificial intelligence, emerging startups in ASEAN are leveraging on their existing technologies and business models to solve the region’s most urgent problems through a competition called “Startups to the Resque.”[] According to the 2016 World Risk Index by the United ...
Joie Cruz
Southeast Asia's power plants are getting an IoT upgrade
Southeast Asian countries are adopting cutting-edge information technology to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of fossil fuel power plants that the region relies on to meet surging energy demand. Read more ...
Hiroshi Kotani
App combines computer vision and crowdsourcing to explore Earth’s biodiversity, one photo at a time
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was developed in large part from the observations and collections of plants, animals and fossils that he made in the Galapagos islands and other stops during his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. However, Darwin was an amateur ...
Colleen O'Brien
EA to build charging stations
A SET-listed renewable energy firm, Energy Absolute Plc (EA), has announced plans to develop and operate charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) for the first time in Thailand, allotting 600 million baht to set up charging stations nationwide over the next few years.Keep reading ...
Policy lagging technology, OECD warns
To capitalise on the transition to a digital society, nations in Southeast Asia need to close the gap between advanced technology and lagging policy, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said last week.Keep reading ...
