Muhammad Affan

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Muhammad Affan is a freelance technical author with experience in building data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and data governance systems. He writes on topics relevant to data engineering with focus on how enterprises navigate the gap between digital growth and data maturity within emerging markets.

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The Data Pillar Problem: Why ASEAN’s Compliance Frameworks Are Outpacing Enterprise Data Readiness

The data governance landscape across Southeast Asian (SEA) nations is advancing rapidly. However, a widening gap has opened between these accelerating regulatory frameworks and actual enterprise readiness.

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The Data Pillar Problem: Why ASEAN’s Compliance Frameworks Are Outpacing Enterprise Data Readiness

The data governance landscape across Southeast Asian (SEA) nations is advancing rapidly. However, a widening gap has opened between these accelerating regulatory frameworks and actual enterprise readiness.

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Mouna Aouri

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

Senior Fellow & Founding Executive Director

Dr Ming Tan is Senior Fellow at the Tech for Good Institute; where she served as founding Executive Director of the non-profit focused on research and policy at the intersection of technology, society and the economy in Southeast Asia. She is concurrently a Senior Fellow at and 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. Ming was previously Managing Director of IPOS International, part of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Prior to joining the public sector, she was Head of Stewardship of the COMO Group.


Ming also serves on the boards of several private companies, Singapore’s National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, 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. Her current portfolio spans philanthropy, social impact, sustainability and innovation.