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In this article, Deputy Privacy Commissioner Leandro Angelo Y. Aguirre and Celine Melanie A. Dee from the Philippine National Privacy Commission (NPC) examine the regulatory developments in the Philippines.
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The Tech for Good Institute highlights key research works in the digital economy in Southeast Asia (SEA). The World Bank policy brief on COVID-19 Digital Merchants Survey analyses the challenges that e-commerce merchants face and provides policy priority areas to better support them.
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The Tech for Good Institute highlights key research works in the digital economy in Southeast Asia (SEA). The World Bank policy brief on COVID-19 Digital Merchants Survey analyses the challenges that e-commerce merchants face and provides policy priority areas to better support them.
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This article also examines how Digital Economy Companies (DECs) can play a part to advance the Philippines’ digital economy.
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This article also examines how Digital Economy Companies (DECs) can play a part to advance the Philippines’ digital economy.
The Institute’s latest research study seeks to better understand the adoption of digital financial services (DFS) across the SEA-6 region.
Leveraging the promise of technology to advance inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth
While technology continues to turbocharge Southeast Asia’s growth and development, the reality is that it is also transforming our economies and societies in fundamental and unprecedented ways. We know little yet about how these profound changes may require adaptations in our economic, social, political and economic systems.
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Dr Ming Tan is founding Executive Director for the Tech for Good Institute. She is concurrently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology, business and society, including sustainability and innovation.
Ming was previously Managing Director of IPOS International, part of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, which supports Singapore’s future growth as a global innovation hub for intellectual property creation, commercialisation and management.
Prior to joining the public sector, she was Head of Stewardship of the COMO Group, a Singaporean portfolio of lifestyle companies operating in 14 countries worldwide. Her portfolio covered sustainability, brand and data privacy. She was concurrently the founding Executive Director of COMO Foundation, the private philanthropy of the owner of the COMO Group.
As a company director, she lends brand and strategic guidance to SuperNature Pte Ltd, COMO Hotels and Resorts (Asia) Pte Ltd, COMO Club Pte Ltd, and Mogems Pte Ltd. In the not-for-profit space, Ming is an Advisor to Singapore Totalisator Board and serves on the boards of Esplanade–Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre, St. Joseph’s Institution International and COMO Foundation.
As part of her commitment to holistic education and the arts, she also sits on the Advisory Panel of the Centre for the Arts of the National University of Singapore.
Ming was educated in Singapore, the United States, and England. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University and her doctorate from Oxford.