ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025 faces major hurdles
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Significance
More than a year later, ASEAN faces difficulties in advancing its core objectives: building a single integrated regional digital economy and narrowing the digital divide within member states, particularly between urban and rural sectors. Nevertheless, the bloc views ADM 2025 as a critical tool in the region’s recovery from the pandemic.
Impacts
- ADM 2025 will be subject to political competition between regionally influential powers, particularly China and the United States.
- Digital consumer platforms could be a template for e-government, and online finance and health care.
- With the UN seeing a 25% increase in urbanisation in the next four years in South-east Asia, demand for digital services will rise.
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