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The Bio-Cyber Norm

Emergence and Operationalisation

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has brought the readiness and security systems of medical infrastructure in Asia into sharp focus. Increasing reliance on digital systems, spurred in recent times by Asian countries investing heavily in their digital economies, has served to make healthcare infrastructure viable and easy targets for malicious cyber-actors, which can have dangerous consequences.

Sarvjeet Singh, Sharngan Aravindakshan
September 21, 2021
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Enabling Efficient and Inclusive E-Commerce Governance in Asia

A Focus on Digital Taxation

With a thriving digital economy, increased economic integration and a dynamic MSME sector, the Asia-Pacific region offers a unique opportunity to develop a dynamic, inclusive and more integrated e-commerce environment. However, the risks posed by a fragmented policy landscape, competing policy priorities, a lack of consideration of the implications of taxation policies on the regional e-commerce ecosystem — especially the operations of MSMEs — and the need to strengthen governance mechanisms promoting a less disruptive and more integrated approach to e-commerce taxation policy, all remain key challenges to e-commerce growth in the region.

Dr. Deborah Elms, Sebastian Cortes-Sanchez, Ankita Saxena
September 21, 2021
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About this series

The 21st century has long been anticipated to be the Asian century reflecting the expectation that the economic rise of the region would have profound global influence.The first epicenter for the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in Asia were the first to place technology at the front and center of containment efforts to develop and adopt tools that can help the public navigate a global health crisis. The infrastructure and fabric for these efforts have been laid out rapidly in the past half-decade as hundreds of millions in the region hopped into the world of social media creating new worlds of entertainment and education but also exposing centuries old societal fractures.

This volume contains a variety of snapshots of how countries and people in South and Southeast Asia are building, adopting, and thinking about the Internet and emerging technologies while simultaneously being changed and challenged by it.