
- Expert Opinion
Deborah Kay Elms, Head of Trade Policy at the Hinrich Foundation, explores the immediate and potential long-term challenges posed by President Trump’s tariff agenda, highlighting the precarious position of Southeast Asian nations.
— Expert Opinion
Digital platforms across Southeast Asia (SEA) have transformed from basic transaction facilitators into integral components of national digital infrastructure. This shift presents significant opportunities for governments to enhance policy implementation and public service delivery.
— TFGI Resources
As online scams become a growing concern across Asia Pacific (APAC), Abhishek Roy, a UX researcher at Google and Founder of ShieldUp!, explores the growing scam crisis, current limitations in traditional scam prevention and recommendations to build stronger digital resilience.
— Expert Opinion
The rapid pace of technological advancement and business model innovation is fundamentally transforming the nature of work across Southeast Asia (SEA). In response, the Tech For Good Institute (TFGI) is launching a platform to convene policymakers, researchers, and thought leaders in a series of discussions on New Models of Work. These insights will help shape a sustainable and inclusive future of work in the region.
— TFGI Resources
As Southeast Asia’s digital platforms become integral to daily life, this article explores how governments can partner with these platforms to enhance public service delivery, improve policy outcomes, and build inclusive, agile governance systems for the digital age.
— Expert Opinion
How can Southeast Asia harness digital innovation to drive inclusive and sustainable growth? Supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) and launched at Asia Tech x Singapore 2025 (ATxSG), this report explores the region’s opportunity to capitalise on its digital momentum to advance sustainable development.
— Research, TFGI Reports
The rapid development of Southeast Asia’s digital economy is affecting MSMEs. This article highlights their efforts to adapt to technological advancements and explains how innovative, community-focused digital skills training programmes—such as Go Digital ASEAN—are helping them to realise their full potential. These initiatives promote financial inclusion, strengthen resilience, and drive innovation across the region.
— Articles
This working paper by the Tech for Good Institute proposes an initial conceptual framework on how to enable a Confident Digital Society.
— TFGI Reports
This working paper by the Tech for Good Institute proposes an initial conceptual framework on how to enable a Confident Digital Society.
TFGI is on the lookout for visionaries, industry experts, and thought leaders to contribute their perspectives. Whether your passion lies in innovation, sustainable growth, or digital progress, your unique viewpoint on the digital economies of Southeast Asia can spark thought leadership and shape impactful discussions.
— TFGI Insights
TFGI is on the lookout for visionaries, industry experts, and thought leaders to contribute their perspectives. Whether your passion lies in innovation, sustainable growth, or digital progress, your unique viewpoint on the digital economies of Southeast Asia can spark thought leadership and shape impactful discussions.
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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Programme Fellow
Mouna Aouri is an Institute Fellow at the Tech For Good Institute. As a social entrepreneur, impact investor, and engineer, her experience spans over two decades in the MENA region, South East Asia, and Japan. She is founder of Woomentum, a Singapore-based platform dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in APAC through skill development and access to growth capital through strategic collaborations with corporate entities, investors and government partners.
Dr Ming Tan is founding Executive Director for the Tech for Good Institute, a non-profit founded to catalyse research and collaboration on social, economic and policy trends accelerated by the digital economy in Southeast Asia. She is concurrently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore and Advisor to the Founder of the COMO Group, a Singaporean portfolio of lifestyle companies operating in 15 countries worldwide. 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 and the founding Executive Director of COMO Foundation, a grantmaker focused on gender equity that has served over 47 million women and girls since 2003.
As a company director, she lends brand and strategic guidance to several companies within the COMO Group. Ming also serves as a Council Member of the Council for Board Diversity, on the boards of COMO Foundation and Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC), and on the Digital and Technology Advisory Panel for Esplanade–Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre.
In the non-profit, educational and government spheres, Ming is a director of COMO Foundation and Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC) and chairs the Asia Advisory board for Swiss hospitality business and management school EHL. She also serves on the Council for Board Diversity and the Digital and Technology Advisory Panel for Esplanade–Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre.
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.