Juliana Rodriguez, Senior Editor

Indonesia government mulls over the plan to set up an online university for Islamic studies #EdTech #DataScience #DataAnalytics #Data #AI #ML #University #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia

The Indonesia government has committed to improving the quality of its religious education system and wants to achieve this by digitising its underlying support platform. The digital platform is envisioned to be a dashboard that would enable policy-makers, administrators and educators to fully harness technology and data analytics to develop their future work plans andContinue reading “Indonesia government mulls over the plan to set up an online university for Islamic studies #EdTech #DataScience #DataAnalytics #Data #AI #ML #University #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia”

The Indonesia government has committed to improving the quality of its religious education system and wants to achieve this by digitising its underlying support platform. The digital platform is envisioned to be a dashboard that would enable policy-makers, administrators and educators to fully harness technology and data analytics to develop their future work plans andContinue reading “USD250 million was committed to digitize Indonesia’s religious education and expected to achieve learning breakthroughs via data analytics by 2025 #EdTech #DataAnalytics #DataGovernance #DataScience #Onlineuniversity #Education #Indonesia #Southeastasia”

“Not only foreign investments but local demand will also drop because of the changing political situation. The construction and real estate sectors will run normally only when the political situation is stable.” said U Kyaw Kyaw Soe from the Myanmar Construction Entrepreneurs Federation. https://www.mmtimes.com/news/myanmars-real-estate-sector-crashes.html Myanmar Times reported that purchase and sales of real estate inContinue reading “Myanmar’s real estate sector has crashed as the result of ongoing political unrest #Realestate #Myanmar #SouthEastAsia”

Since the launch of the Digital Transformation Program, the Philippines government has been actively looking for partners to explore best practices and systems to improve its public administration and compliance functions. As part of this initiative, they have test-bedded and is going to progressively roll out an integrated system for processing taxpayers’ information. Their mainContinue reading “Philippines government reportedly impressed with Russia’s digitalization journey and sought for help in digitizing its public administration #DataScience #DataAnalytics #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #ML #Digitalization #Philippines #Russia #Southeastasia”

Cambodia’s economy had been hit by the worst flooding in decades and the first community outbreak of Covid-19. The flooding caused many roads to be damaged and disconnected, the logistics of cement and building materials were severely affected. As a result, construction in flooded areas had to stop. Moreover, with the first wave of theContinue reading “Cambodia’s economy had been hit by the worst flooding in decades and the first community outbreak of Covid-19 #flooding #covid19 #Cambodia #Southeastasia”

According to the latest figures released by the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Indonesia’s CPI score has dropped to what it once was in 2015, reversing all the good effort that was achieved from 2016 to 2019. Due to the drop in the CPI score, Indonesia’s CPI rank has dropped to 102th position in 2020, fromContinue reading “Indonesia’s Corruption Perceptions Index has dropped and the government is trying to reverse the trend with their Online Single Submission system #Technology #Corruption #Data #Indonesia #SoutheastAsia”

During Malaysia’s first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, Lazada established Cameron Farmers, a special sales section to help growers who were being forced to discard their fresh produce due to supply chain issues. Since then, Cameron Farmers has cultivated a store following of nearly 30,000 and sells an average of 10 tonnes of fresh produceContinue reading “Lazada’s special sale section Cameron Farmers integrates with Malaysia Cameron Highlands’ farmers to enable end-to-end logistics during second Covid19 lockdown #Logistic #ecommerce #farming #Malaysia”

Russian Railways targets to transform its operations and aims to be a high-tech company. The strategy is to create a new generation of automated jobs that will enable the company to automatically organise the transportation process and manage most aspects of their infrastructure. In detail, they envision a system that allows them to obtain real-timeContinue reading “Russian Railways embarks on digitalisation journey with USD117million loan from Russian government #digitalisation #digitalization #Automation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Microprocessor #Russia”

The Indonesia government announced that they are thinking of transforming and transiting to being a data-driven organisation through the holistic adoption of data science, data analysis and data governance tools. The decision to adopt advanced analytic tools, is in line with their vision to continue to be relevant in a technology-driven age. With a digitalContinue reading “Indonesia government mulls over adoption of data science, data analytics and data governance tools to create relevant policies #DataCenters #DataScience #DataAnalytics #DataGovernance #Indonesia”

The Indonesia government plans to reduce GHG emissions by 29 percent by 2030 and that should work out to about 834 million tonnes of CO2. It is quite a stretch target and the government would have to develop a rigorous Greenhouse Gases (GHG) reduction and energy transformation plan and keep a tight rein on theirContinue reading “Indonesia government targets to reduce 29% of greenhouse gases emission by 2030 #ClimateChange #Renewable #CleanEnergy #Indonesia”