Fandi Achmad

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Fandi Achmad is a DPhil (Cand.) in International Development (Economics of Development) at the University of Oxford. His research and professional experience focus on digital trade, the digital economy, technology policy, international trade, and digital industrialisation.

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Digital Tech Adoption Incentives to Unlock the Next Growth Frontier of the IT-BPM Sector

The Philippines’ IT-BPM sector is growing strongly, but the next growth frontier will come from innovation enabled by advanced digital technologies, such as cloud, AI,
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Fandi Achmad is a DPhil (Cand.) in International Development (Economics of Development) at the University of Oxford. His research and professional experience focus on digital trade, the digital economy, technology policy, international trade, and digital industrialisation.

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For over two decades, Monchito Ibrahim has helped develop policies to strengthen the Philippine digital ecosystem and drive digital economic growth. During his tenure as Undersecretary at the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), he served on legislative working groups that drafted landmark laws, including the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

In June 2023, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. appointed the writer as an Executive Member of the Presidential Innovation Council, representing the business sector. This council is the country’s innovation policymaking body.

He also writes as an opinion columnist in the Manila Bulletin, a leading daily in the Philippines.

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Rigorous studies and data that inform regional tech policies

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Expert analysis on regional emerging trends

Perspectives 20 Jan 2026

Digital Tech Adoption Incentives to Unlock the Next Growth Frontier of the IT-BPM Sector

The Philippines’ IT-BPM sector is growing strongly, but the next growth frontier will come from innovation enabled by advanced digital technologies, such as cloud, AI, analytics, and secure cross-border data systems. These capabilities can help firms move beyond routine outsourcing into innovation-driven partnerships. In this article, the writers explore how targeted digital adoption incentives, structured knowledge partnerships, and clear data governance can support this transition. This article builds upon the 2025 study on the Philippine IT-BPM sector.

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Perspectives 20 Jan 2026

Digital Tech Adoption Incentives to Unlock the Next Growth Frontier of the IT-BPM Sector

The Philippines’ IT-BPM sector is growing strongly, but the next growth frontier will come from innovation enabled by advanced digital technologies, such as cloud, AI, analytics, and secure cross-border data systems. These capabilities can help firms move beyond routine outsourcing into innovation-driven partnerships. In this article, the writers explore how targeted digital adoption incentives, structured knowledge partnerships, and clear data governance can support this transition. This article builds upon the 2025 study on the Philippine IT-BPM sector.

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Tech Governance

Examining how Southeast Asia is shaping tech governance through evolving regulation, policy innovation, and regional cooperation to support responsible digital development.

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Responsible AI Adoption

Examining how AI can be adopted responsibly to strengthen businesses, improve livelihoods, and address emerging risks across Southeast Asia.

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Inclusive Digital Growth

Exploring how Southeast Asia can foster more inclusive digital growth through stronger readiness, participation, and future-ready digital capabilities.

Digital Economy

Financial Inclusion

Exploring how digital technologies can expand financial inclusion and improve access to financial services for underserved communities across Southeast Asia.

Digital Economy

Digital Sustainability

Exploring how Southeast Asia can harness digital innovation, regional cooperation, and responsible business to advance sustainable development and growth.

Digital Economy

Digital Resilience

Examining how Southeast Asian economies can strengthen resilience against cyber threats through stronger capabilities, coordination, and adaptive governance.

Digital Society

Digital Platforms for Public Benefit

Examining how digital platforms can create public value through inclusive access, cross-sector collaboration, and more effective digital governance in Southeast Asia.

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Confident Digital Society

Exploring how Southeast Asia can build a more confident digital society through stronger trust, resilience, and protection against emerging digital risks.

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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.