Both advanced and emerging economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia recognise that a new industrial revolution built on the principles of cyber-physical systems and automation is inevitable and will shape the future of economic growth. In addition to various national initiatives relating to enhancing industrial productivity, there has been heightened recognition ...

The chapters in this volume show the key opportunities as well as challenges in embracing the two concepts in the context of the fast-growing emerging economies of ASEAN. Transforming the challenges into opportunities requires the participation of the full breadth of society and actions in nations, sectors, supply chains, and cities. Major trend corrections are needed to get the regionally integrated ...

Space and geospatial technology (SGT) is an intelligence technology that enables the global monitoring of a wide range of parameters such as the distribution of facilities and buildings; the movements of cars, ships, aircraft, and people; environmental change; or post-disaster economic development processes. While geospatial technology was originally developed for military and security use, it has ...

Asia’s historical development is at a crossroads. Twenty months into the coronavirus pandemic, the cumulative economic and financial impacts are estimated to be much worse than those of the 1997 Asian economic crisis and the 2008 global financial crisis. Governments across ASEAN and East Asia have deployed a significant amount of emergency capital in their response to the pandemic, with an initial ...