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Confident Digital Society Dashboard
Explore the Confident Digital Society Index (CDSI) and use the interactive dashboard to compare digital foundations and future-readiness across nine Southeast Asian countries. Discover the data, explore key indicators, and contribute your own insights on realising confident digital societies in the region.
Infographic: From Framework to implementation
Based on Tech for Good Institute’s The Evolution of Tech Governance in Southeast Asia-6 initiative, this infographic tracks selected policy and regulatory developments across the six economies.
Read the full report here: The Evolution of Tech Governance in Southeast Asia (Third Edition).
From Payment for Goods to Payment for Good: Digital Giving in Southeast Asia–An Exploratory Study
The study explores the unique intersection between technology and philanthropy in SEA and uncovers the digital giving paradox: The mismatch in scale between digital spending (payment for goods and services), and digital giving (payment for good). Drawing on regional stakeholder consultations, the report identifies conditions under which digital giving scales, surfaces barriers that hold it back, and offers practical recommendations for non-profits, philanthropic intermediaries and regulators.
The report was launched on 19 May 2026 at the Philanthropy Asia Summit 2026. Please read the official press release for more information.
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.
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.
