As major economies continue to struggle and previously up and coming
markets such as Brazil and China mature, IDG Connect investigates
opinion on the next emerging markets. With expanded background on
Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Qatar, this paper also presents local
opinions from experts on the ground.
The document discusses the growth of internet usage in India. It notes that while India has the 4th largest internet population, penetration is only at 7%, which is lower than other major economies. However, internet usage is growing rapidly in India and is expected to accelerate further with improvements in infrastructure. Key sectors like internet advertising, e-commerce and online travel are still small compared to more developed markets but also experiencing strong growth. The document provides an overview of internet and economic trends in India compared to countries like the US and China.
Are you ready for accelerated digital media adoptionRaghav Mani
Emerging markets represent a huge opportunity for growth in digital media due to large millennial populations and rising smartphone adoption, however companies must consider both the potential rewards and risks when determining their market entry strategies. An analysis of countries using EY's Digital Media Attractiveness Index shows that while China ranks highest among emerging markets due to its scale, all countries have unique characteristics that companies should tailor their approaches to. The index also groups markets into categories based on their balance of potential benefits and costs to help companies optimize their investment strategies.
Building up the e-gaming ecosystem of India and the influence of smartphonesRedSeer
Survey respondents were asked how “important in life” is leisure time. Results for India based on more than 4,000 respondents. *GDP per capita is expressed in 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars, for the year 2014.
This document introduces the 2020 Government AI Readiness Index published by Oxford Insights and the International Development Research Centre. It finds that the US ranks first in overall readiness, while Western European nations like the UK and Germany also score highly. China ranks surprisingly low at 19th due to its focus on implementation over readiness factors. Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean score lowest on average. A new sub-index on responsible AI use finds Nordic countries leading, while the US and UK score lower. The report aims to help governments understand gaps and strengths to improve their AI readiness and ensure its responsible development and use.
The gaming industry in India has grown rapidly in recent years and is poised to become one of the largest markets worldwide. The market size has increased from Rs. 10 billion in 2014 to an estimated Rs. 38 billion by 2017. Mobile gaming currently dominates the market with 62% share but console and online PC gaming are growing rapidly. While the industry faces challenges like piracy and high import duties, its future is bright with falling hardware costs and growing demand for local content driving further expansion.
As per the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2020, global wealth stood at US$ 399 trillion as of the end of 2019. Most of the global wealth is primarily controlled by older men in North America and Europe.
As per BCG, the Asset Under Management (AuM) for the global asset management industry stood at US$88.7 trillion as of the end of 2019.
The pandemic found the wealth management industry dealing with margin pressure amid the popularity of passive products, on the verge of a great wealth transfer from the Baby Boomers to the younger generations, a rising share of women’s wealth, and increasing regulatory pressure. Revenue from beta is quickly diminishing due to the popularity of passive products. The focus is shifting from margin to increasing AUM.
As per Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2020, global wealth decreased by US$ 17 trillion between January and March of 2020. Recovery in the capital markets Q2 onwards led to the recovery of household wealth in Q2 to the levels of the end of 2019. Though the loss of growth represents a more than US$7 trillion loss from expected wealth levels by the end of the first half of 2020. Lower economic activity, lower consumption, and lower investments by both households and corporates likely to restrain household wealth growth for many coming years. The growth rate may not recover to pre-pandemic levels before the end of 2021. Global wealth per adult decreased by 0.4% in the first half of 2020. China is the biggest gainer and Latin America along with Africa are the greatest losers.
Though low-interest-rate environment, making time deposits less attractive, likely to boost funds flows to capital markets and demand for wealth management services.
At the same time, social distancing is forcing digital adoption in wealth management. Apart from that, the great wealth transfer will mean that the wealth management sector needs a paradigm shift in their client engagements. The expectations of tech-savvy millennials are very much different from the older generations. Instant gratification, higher involvement in the process, and constant monitoring are some of the features Millennials expect.
Micro-Investment platforms and Online Brokers are expected to be immensely beneficial as tech-savvy Millennials control more and more wealth. Self-service platforms that specialize in passive products (MF, ETF) are especially lucrative.
Hybrid services that combine human touch with tech efficiency will likely to become mainstream as wealth management firms push for cost-cutting and younger generations control more and more wealth.
As many traditional wealth management firms will look to increase their digital capabilities, WealthTech firms with proven business models are expected to be seen as attractive acquisition targets.
The document discusses the gaming industry in India and provides an analysis of key factors. It covers the mobile, console, and PC/online gaming segments. Mobile gaming is growing rapidly due to increasing smartphone and internet usage. Console gaming is more established but remains niche due to high costs. PC/online gaming is also growing significantly. The industry faces some challenges around infrastructure, pricing, and regional access but has strong long term growth potential. Microsoft is a major player in the industry with its Xbox console.
Digital Bosphorus - The State of Turkish eCommerce 2013 - Sina AfraSina Afra
Turkey has seen strong growth in eCommerce, with online retail sales growing at a 35.5% compound annual growth rate since 2008. Key factors driving this growth include high rates of internet and mobile internet penetration among Turkish consumers, widespread credit card usage, a strong logistics infrastructure, and social media-savvy consumers under 35. While eCommerce still only accounts for a small portion of total retail spending, Turkey is well-positioned for continued expansion in online shopping due to strong underlying demand and technological adoption trends.
The document discusses the growth of internet usage in India. It notes that while India has the 4th largest internet population, penetration is only at 7%, which is lower than other major economies. However, internet usage is growing rapidly in India and is expected to accelerate further with improvements in infrastructure. Key sectors like internet advertising, e-commerce and online travel are still small compared to more developed markets but also experiencing strong growth. The document provides an overview of internet and economic trends in India compared to countries like the US and China.
Are you ready for accelerated digital media adoptionRaghav Mani
Emerging markets represent a huge opportunity for growth in digital media due to large millennial populations and rising smartphone adoption, however companies must consider both the potential rewards and risks when determining their market entry strategies. An analysis of countries using EY's Digital Media Attractiveness Index shows that while China ranks highest among emerging markets due to its scale, all countries have unique characteristics that companies should tailor their approaches to. The index also groups markets into categories based on their balance of potential benefits and costs to help companies optimize their investment strategies.
Building up the e-gaming ecosystem of India and the influence of smartphonesRedSeer
Survey respondents were asked how “important in life” is leisure time. Results for India based on more than 4,000 respondents. *GDP per capita is expressed in 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars, for the year 2014.
This document introduces the 2020 Government AI Readiness Index published by Oxford Insights and the International Development Research Centre. It finds that the US ranks first in overall readiness, while Western European nations like the UK and Germany also score highly. China ranks surprisingly low at 19th due to its focus on implementation over readiness factors. Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean score lowest on average. A new sub-index on responsible AI use finds Nordic countries leading, while the US and UK score lower. The report aims to help governments understand gaps and strengths to improve their AI readiness and ensure its responsible development and use.
The gaming industry in India has grown rapidly in recent years and is poised to become one of the largest markets worldwide. The market size has increased from Rs. 10 billion in 2014 to an estimated Rs. 38 billion by 2017. Mobile gaming currently dominates the market with 62% share but console and online PC gaming are growing rapidly. While the industry faces challenges like piracy and high import duties, its future is bright with falling hardware costs and growing demand for local content driving further expansion.
As per the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2020, global wealth stood at US$ 399 trillion as of the end of 2019. Most of the global wealth is primarily controlled by older men in North America and Europe.
As per BCG, the Asset Under Management (AuM) for the global asset management industry stood at US$88.7 trillion as of the end of 2019.
The pandemic found the wealth management industry dealing with margin pressure amid the popularity of passive products, on the verge of a great wealth transfer from the Baby Boomers to the younger generations, a rising share of women’s wealth, and increasing regulatory pressure. Revenue from beta is quickly diminishing due to the popularity of passive products. The focus is shifting from margin to increasing AUM.
As per Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2020, global wealth decreased by US$ 17 trillion between January and March of 2020. Recovery in the capital markets Q2 onwards led to the recovery of household wealth in Q2 to the levels of the end of 2019. Though the loss of growth represents a more than US$7 trillion loss from expected wealth levels by the end of the first half of 2020. Lower economic activity, lower consumption, and lower investments by both households and corporates likely to restrain household wealth growth for many coming years. The growth rate may not recover to pre-pandemic levels before the end of 2021. Global wealth per adult decreased by 0.4% in the first half of 2020. China is the biggest gainer and Latin America along with Africa are the greatest losers.
Though low-interest-rate environment, making time deposits less attractive, likely to boost funds flows to capital markets and demand for wealth management services.
At the same time, social distancing is forcing digital adoption in wealth management. Apart from that, the great wealth transfer will mean that the wealth management sector needs a paradigm shift in their client engagements. The expectations of tech-savvy millennials are very much different from the older generations. Instant gratification, higher involvement in the process, and constant monitoring are some of the features Millennials expect.
Micro-Investment platforms and Online Brokers are expected to be immensely beneficial as tech-savvy Millennials control more and more wealth. Self-service platforms that specialize in passive products (MF, ETF) are especially lucrative.
Hybrid services that combine human touch with tech efficiency will likely to become mainstream as wealth management firms push for cost-cutting and younger generations control more and more wealth.
As many traditional wealth management firms will look to increase their digital capabilities, WealthTech firms with proven business models are expected to be seen as attractive acquisition targets.
The document discusses the gaming industry in India and provides an analysis of key factors. It covers the mobile, console, and PC/online gaming segments. Mobile gaming is growing rapidly due to increasing smartphone and internet usage. Console gaming is more established but remains niche due to high costs. PC/online gaming is also growing significantly. The industry faces some challenges around infrastructure, pricing, and regional access but has strong long term growth potential. Microsoft is a major player in the industry with its Xbox console.
Digital Bosphorus - The State of Turkish eCommerce 2013 - Sina AfraSina Afra
Turkey has seen strong growth in eCommerce, with online retail sales growing at a 35.5% compound annual growth rate since 2008. Key factors driving this growth include high rates of internet and mobile internet penetration among Turkish consumers, widespread credit card usage, a strong logistics infrastructure, and social media-savvy consumers under 35. While eCommerce still only accounts for a small portion of total retail spending, Turkey is well-positioned for continued expansion in online shopping due to strong underlying demand and technological adoption trends.
GP Bullhound Research Turkish Internet Report April 2013Melih ÖZCANLI
GP Bullhound Research Turkish Internet Report April 2013
by ALI DAGLI & DANIEL MAGGS
GP Bullhound is a research-centric investment bank with offices in London, San Francisco, Stockholm and Berlin.
An estimated 96 Mn Indian users are forecast to pay
for games in 2021. Paid gamers are forecast to reach
~240 Mn (3x) in the next 5 years. Survey results show that up to 50% of new midcore and hardcore game users pay $7-$14 per month.
MEDICI’s new ‘Africa FinTech Report 2020’ is a deep-dive into the sector; it analyzes segments, funding patterns, M&As, partnerships, and countries, and offers perspectives that have been drawn out of regulatory, economic, and market dynamics.
Payments
Lending
Insurance
Wealth
Management
Digital
Banking
E-wallets
Buy Now Pay Later
Micro Insurance
Robo Advisory
Neo Banks
Mobile Money
Personal Loans
Health Insurance
Digital Assets
Branchless Banking
Digital Remittance
SME Loans
Life Insurance
Digital
Banking
Digital Payments
Digital Lending
Digital Insurance
Digital Wealth
Digital Banking
E-commerce Payments
Invoice Financing
Crop Insurance
P2P Lending
Micro Factoring
Sup
From BitPagos to BiM, Latin American innovators are taking advantage of high mobile penetration, a strong middle class and a unified culture to capture new opportunities in the digital economy.
Established in 2005, Kings Entertainment is the parent company of global lottery brands LottoKings and WinTrillions. As international online service providers for lottery, casino, and sportsbook gambling, these brands leverage their ability to acquire pre-qualified players through renowned lottery offerings, then engage players in a range of casino and sportsbook offerings. LottoKings and WinTrillions have attracted and retained millions of player sign-ups since their inceptions.
This document provides an overview and summary of the report "e-Conomy SEA 2018 - Southeast Asia's internet economy hits an inflection point". It finds that Southeast Asia's internet economy reached $72 billion in 2018, growing 37% from the previous year. The four key sectors studied - online travel, e-commerce, online media, and ride-hailing - are on track to exceed $240 billion by 2025. Indonesia has the largest and fastest growing internet economy in the region, while the online media and e-commerce sectors in particular are experiencing strong growth across Southeast Asia.
E-conomy SEA Spotlight 2017 by Google TemasekGiacomo Ficari
It turns out that Southeast Asia’s internet economy growth has exceeded expectations. The region’s internet economy will reach $50 billion in 2017, outpacing earlier growth expectations by 35 percent. In the “e-Conomy Southeast Asia Spotlight 2017” report, we’ve found that the region is well on track to realising a $200 billion internet economy by 2025
Insurance penetration in Indonesia is very low at less than 3% of the population due to a lack of understanding and high prices. However, technology presents an opportunity to increase penetration among Indonesia's large, young, and increasingly wealthy population through insurtech platforms that make the purchase and claims process simpler. A survey of over 2,000 Indonesians found that while health and life insurance are most commonly used, many do not understand insurance products or find them too expensive. There is potential for insurtech to develop innovative new products that better meet consumer needs and simplify the purchasing and claims experience.
China has emerged on the world stage with a brace of global tech companies that are innovative and competitive. And increasingly, their successes are being studied and replicated in other markets.
This third edition of the China Internet Report delves deeper and broader into China’s drive to be a global leader for innovation, and examines the opportunities and challenges for its technology-led industrial transformation.
This report summarizes the Indonesian fintech industry in 2018. Key points include:
1) Total disclosed fintech investment was $182.3 million, a 3% increase over 2017, with lending startups receiving 57% of funding.
2) Fintech lending has grown significantly, with over 13.8 trillion Rupiah disbursed in loans as of September 2018. 84% of loans were in Java.
3) New regulations from OJK and BI aimed to strengthen consumer protections and ensure security, including rules for e-money, digital banking, and fintech innovation. A new fintech lending association AFPI was also established.
Chinese tech companies are increasingly influencing global technology trends. China pioneered the "super app" model exemplified by WeChat, which offers multiple services through a single platform, and this model is now being replicated by companies like Facebook, LINE, and Go-Jek. China is also leading in the adoption of 5G networks and using artificial intelligence on a large scale. Additionally, China's social credit system is becoming a reality and aims to rate citizens' trustworthiness.
As part of the European Indonesian Business Network initiative "Gateways to ASEAN: ICT Opportunities in Indonesia", had a chance to travel to the Polish cities of Warsaw, Wroclaw and Poznan to share with Polish entrepreneurs the challenges and opportunities of conducting business in Indonesia.
The main topics of conversation included Digital, Mobile, FinTech Development & Logistics.
The discussions focused on providing attendees with practical perspectives on where the ICT business potential of Indonesia lies and what is to be expected when choosing to enter the country's high potential market.
The ICT Business Opportunities in Indonesia sessions have the support of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP), and are co-organized by the Polish Chamber of Commerce (in Warsaw), the Wroclaw Center of Technology Transfer (in Wroclaw) and the Poznan Science and Technology Park (Poznan).
This IDC Country Brief cover India, where the amount of data created, replicated, and consumed each year will grow an amazing 23-fold through the end of the decade, according to the 2012 EMC-IDC Digital Universe study.
1. Online skill-based real-money gaming market in India is estimated to grow to become ~$3.8 Bn1 by 2024 speed of growing smartphone penetration, low cost of data and vast digital payment infrastructure allowing individuals access to instant real-time inter-bank transactions.
2. Introduced to Indian market in early 2010 and pioneered by Dream11, Fantasy sports contributed ~ 30% of the RMG market in 2019. Fantasy sports market has witnessed exponential growth in recent years fuelled by increasing user base, high engagement and increasing investor interest and is expected to grow by ~60% till 2024.
3. Casual online real-gaming market contributed ~70% of the total RMG market in 2019. However, it is expected to grow relatively slower at ~35% when compared to fantasy sports.
4. Driven by high growth opportunity in RMG market, horizontal players have started foraying in the segment. In 2019, Paytm entered the casual gaming space with Paytm First Games.
This document provides a summary of the November 2013 Mobile Report, which provides news and developments in the mobile industry locally and abroad. It contains 7 sections covering topics like the mobile landscape, innovation, devices and operating systems, networks, technology, social networks, and LinkedIn statistics for Africa. Some key points include FNB launching its mobile app in 7 African countries, a prediction that African mobile subscribers will reach 930 million by 2019, and MTN sealing a deal with Visa to allow mobile money users to make payments using Visa networks.
MEDICI’s new ‘Indonesia FinTech Report 2021’ analyzes the country’s FinTech sector and trends in the last three years—a deep-dive by segments & subsegments, funding patterns, M&As, ecosystem partnerships, industry drivers, and perspectives drawn out of regulatory, geopolitical, economic, and market dynamics.
The document discusses the growth of the IT sector in Karnataka state, India. It notes that Karnataka, with Bangalore as its capital, has emerged as a major hub for the Indian IT industry and accounts for one of the largest concentrations of IT organizations in the country. The state government has implemented various policies and initiatives like setting up IT parks and special economic zones to attract investment and further promote the growth of the IT sector. The document highlights the key role played by the development of the IT industry in transforming Karnataka's economy and increasing opportunities for employment and progress.
The document provides an overview of professional development opportunities and resources for library staff. It discusses challenges such as time and money constraints. A variety of tools are presented for self-paced learning including webinars, blogs, social networks, and online courses. Specific resources are listed, such as the WebJunction site for webinars. The document emphasizes finding purpose-driven ways to manage the many available professional development options.
Enhance your aged infrastructure without impacting operationsEaton Electrical
Data centers are built for multi-year lifecycles, but technology and business continue to evolve, making the infrastructure less than optimal. How do you take a former high-performance facility and transform it to meet today’s business and environmental needs without “throwing it all away” – and maintaining full operations?
Explore how H5 Data Centers upgraded its Denver facility to meet efficiency goals with a flexible solution that addresses its growing demands and ensures reliability and scalability. As a colocation provider, H5 Data Centers needed to ensure 100 percent continuous uptime for a broad set of customers while transforming its 20+-year-old facility to a modern standard.
Powering ASEAN's growth. A look at the trends that will impact the use of pow...Tim Hill
How our use of energy will change in the next five years.
Clashes in the South China Sea, rising fuel prices, nuclear disasters and choking smog levels have brought energy issues sharply into focus in the region. As the deadline for ASEAN’s Vision 2020 gets nearer, will the region transition to a unified economic group, connected by power, gas and water networks, working together to promote energy efficiency?
Ipsos Business Consulting believes the future will involve a more complex array of energy options, but not necessarily a unified ASEAN program. In a whitepaper on this topic, author Tim Hill has outlined the energy trends that will shape the region. New technologies and practices will emerge in the latter part of this decade which will change the way the region extracts, produces, distributes and consumes energy. Hill hopes that some of these trends will enable ASEAN’s economies to grow without further damage to the environment.
From national grids to micro-grids and off-grid power
160M people in ASEAN (about 28% of the region) have no electricity. Getting full access to all through extending the grid will prove challenging and expensive. Micro-grids, such as the one operating as a test centre in Pulau Ubin will help to bridge this gap. Smaller plants powered by hybrid fossil and renewable sources will help to bring electricity to rural communities in Southeast Asia that previously have had to rely on generators. Remote areas will benefit from advances in technology with solar power and battery storage that will create enough electricity for lighting and other low level devices. In the cities more households will take on individual solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.
Electric vehicles
Other parts of the world are using electric cars and buses, and Singapore is looking at options in this space. SMRT added 600 Toyota Prius hybrid cars to its fleet at the end of last year and there are experiments with fully electric cars. Charging stations are starting to appear in select parts of Singapore.
Electric two wheelers are going to experience a tenfold increase during the course of this decade. Electric bikes are likely to replace petrol motorbikes and scooters throughout the region which will help to manage smog levels as urban populations grow.
Other types of electric personal transport such as Segways, scooters, skateboards etc are starting to pop up in our parks. These will become more mainstream forms of transport for short commutes during the rest of the decade. Governments in the region have been slow to recognise the advantages of electric two wheelers, seeing it as something that needs to be regulated and kept off the roads and off the walkways. This will change as the advantages of low cost, low speed vehicles become more mainstream
GP Bullhound Research Turkish Internet Report April 2013Melih ÖZCANLI
GP Bullhound Research Turkish Internet Report April 2013
by ALI DAGLI & DANIEL MAGGS
GP Bullhound is a research-centric investment bank with offices in London, San Francisco, Stockholm and Berlin.
An estimated 96 Mn Indian users are forecast to pay
for games in 2021. Paid gamers are forecast to reach
~240 Mn (3x) in the next 5 years. Survey results show that up to 50% of new midcore and hardcore game users pay $7-$14 per month.
MEDICI’s new ‘Africa FinTech Report 2020’ is a deep-dive into the sector; it analyzes segments, funding patterns, M&As, partnerships, and countries, and offers perspectives that have been drawn out of regulatory, economic, and market dynamics.
Payments
Lending
Insurance
Wealth
Management
Digital
Banking
E-wallets
Buy Now Pay Later
Micro Insurance
Robo Advisory
Neo Banks
Mobile Money
Personal Loans
Health Insurance
Digital Assets
Branchless Banking
Digital Remittance
SME Loans
Life Insurance
Digital
Banking
Digital Payments
Digital Lending
Digital Insurance
Digital Wealth
Digital Banking
E-commerce Payments
Invoice Financing
Crop Insurance
P2P Lending
Micro Factoring
Sup
From BitPagos to BiM, Latin American innovators are taking advantage of high mobile penetration, a strong middle class and a unified culture to capture new opportunities in the digital economy.
Established in 2005, Kings Entertainment is the parent company of global lottery brands LottoKings and WinTrillions. As international online service providers for lottery, casino, and sportsbook gambling, these brands leverage their ability to acquire pre-qualified players through renowned lottery offerings, then engage players in a range of casino and sportsbook offerings. LottoKings and WinTrillions have attracted and retained millions of player sign-ups since their inceptions.
This document provides an overview and summary of the report "e-Conomy SEA 2018 - Southeast Asia's internet economy hits an inflection point". It finds that Southeast Asia's internet economy reached $72 billion in 2018, growing 37% from the previous year. The four key sectors studied - online travel, e-commerce, online media, and ride-hailing - are on track to exceed $240 billion by 2025. Indonesia has the largest and fastest growing internet economy in the region, while the online media and e-commerce sectors in particular are experiencing strong growth across Southeast Asia.
E-conomy SEA Spotlight 2017 by Google TemasekGiacomo Ficari
It turns out that Southeast Asia’s internet economy growth has exceeded expectations. The region’s internet economy will reach $50 billion in 2017, outpacing earlier growth expectations by 35 percent. In the “e-Conomy Southeast Asia Spotlight 2017” report, we’ve found that the region is well on track to realising a $200 billion internet economy by 2025
Insurance penetration in Indonesia is very low at less than 3% of the population due to a lack of understanding and high prices. However, technology presents an opportunity to increase penetration among Indonesia's large, young, and increasingly wealthy population through insurtech platforms that make the purchase and claims process simpler. A survey of over 2,000 Indonesians found that while health and life insurance are most commonly used, many do not understand insurance products or find them too expensive. There is potential for insurtech to develop innovative new products that better meet consumer needs and simplify the purchasing and claims experience.
China has emerged on the world stage with a brace of global tech companies that are innovative and competitive. And increasingly, their successes are being studied and replicated in other markets.
This third edition of the China Internet Report delves deeper and broader into China’s drive to be a global leader for innovation, and examines the opportunities and challenges for its technology-led industrial transformation.
This report summarizes the Indonesian fintech industry in 2018. Key points include:
1) Total disclosed fintech investment was $182.3 million, a 3% increase over 2017, with lending startups receiving 57% of funding.
2) Fintech lending has grown significantly, with over 13.8 trillion Rupiah disbursed in loans as of September 2018. 84% of loans were in Java.
3) New regulations from OJK and BI aimed to strengthen consumer protections and ensure security, including rules for e-money, digital banking, and fintech innovation. A new fintech lending association AFPI was also established.
Chinese tech companies are increasingly influencing global technology trends. China pioneered the "super app" model exemplified by WeChat, which offers multiple services through a single platform, and this model is now being replicated by companies like Facebook, LINE, and Go-Jek. China is also leading in the adoption of 5G networks and using artificial intelligence on a large scale. Additionally, China's social credit system is becoming a reality and aims to rate citizens' trustworthiness.
As part of the European Indonesian Business Network initiative "Gateways to ASEAN: ICT Opportunities in Indonesia", had a chance to travel to the Polish cities of Warsaw, Wroclaw and Poznan to share with Polish entrepreneurs the challenges and opportunities of conducting business in Indonesia.
The main topics of conversation included Digital, Mobile, FinTech Development & Logistics.
The discussions focused on providing attendees with practical perspectives on where the ICT business potential of Indonesia lies and what is to be expected when choosing to enter the country's high potential market.
The ICT Business Opportunities in Indonesia sessions have the support of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP), and are co-organized by the Polish Chamber of Commerce (in Warsaw), the Wroclaw Center of Technology Transfer (in Wroclaw) and the Poznan Science and Technology Park (Poznan).
This IDC Country Brief cover India, where the amount of data created, replicated, and consumed each year will grow an amazing 23-fold through the end of the decade, according to the 2012 EMC-IDC Digital Universe study.
1. Online skill-based real-money gaming market in India is estimated to grow to become ~$3.8 Bn1 by 2024 speed of growing smartphone penetration, low cost of data and vast digital payment infrastructure allowing individuals access to instant real-time inter-bank transactions.
2. Introduced to Indian market in early 2010 and pioneered by Dream11, Fantasy sports contributed ~ 30% of the RMG market in 2019. Fantasy sports market has witnessed exponential growth in recent years fuelled by increasing user base, high engagement and increasing investor interest and is expected to grow by ~60% till 2024.
3. Casual online real-gaming market contributed ~70% of the total RMG market in 2019. However, it is expected to grow relatively slower at ~35% when compared to fantasy sports.
4. Driven by high growth opportunity in RMG market, horizontal players have started foraying in the segment. In 2019, Paytm entered the casual gaming space with Paytm First Games.
This document provides a summary of the November 2013 Mobile Report, which provides news and developments in the mobile industry locally and abroad. It contains 7 sections covering topics like the mobile landscape, innovation, devices and operating systems, networks, technology, social networks, and LinkedIn statistics for Africa. Some key points include FNB launching its mobile app in 7 African countries, a prediction that African mobile subscribers will reach 930 million by 2019, and MTN sealing a deal with Visa to allow mobile money users to make payments using Visa networks.
MEDICI’s new ‘Indonesia FinTech Report 2021’ analyzes the country’s FinTech sector and trends in the last three years—a deep-dive by segments & subsegments, funding patterns, M&As, ecosystem partnerships, industry drivers, and perspectives drawn out of regulatory, geopolitical, economic, and market dynamics.
The document discusses the growth of the IT sector in Karnataka state, India. It notes that Karnataka, with Bangalore as its capital, has emerged as a major hub for the Indian IT industry and accounts for one of the largest concentrations of IT organizations in the country. The state government has implemented various policies and initiatives like setting up IT parks and special economic zones to attract investment and further promote the growth of the IT sector. The document highlights the key role played by the development of the IT industry in transforming Karnataka's economy and increasing opportunities for employment and progress.
The document provides an overview of professional development opportunities and resources for library staff. It discusses challenges such as time and money constraints. A variety of tools are presented for self-paced learning including webinars, blogs, social networks, and online courses. Specific resources are listed, such as the WebJunction site for webinars. The document emphasizes finding purpose-driven ways to manage the many available professional development options.
Enhance your aged infrastructure without impacting operationsEaton Electrical
Data centers are built for multi-year lifecycles, but technology and business continue to evolve, making the infrastructure less than optimal. How do you take a former high-performance facility and transform it to meet today’s business and environmental needs without “throwing it all away” – and maintaining full operations?
Explore how H5 Data Centers upgraded its Denver facility to meet efficiency goals with a flexible solution that addresses its growing demands and ensures reliability and scalability. As a colocation provider, H5 Data Centers needed to ensure 100 percent continuous uptime for a broad set of customers while transforming its 20+-year-old facility to a modern standard.
Powering ASEAN's growth. A look at the trends that will impact the use of pow...Tim Hill
How our use of energy will change in the next five years.
Clashes in the South China Sea, rising fuel prices, nuclear disasters and choking smog levels have brought energy issues sharply into focus in the region. As the deadline for ASEAN’s Vision 2020 gets nearer, will the region transition to a unified economic group, connected by power, gas and water networks, working together to promote energy efficiency?
Ipsos Business Consulting believes the future will involve a more complex array of energy options, but not necessarily a unified ASEAN program. In a whitepaper on this topic, author Tim Hill has outlined the energy trends that will shape the region. New technologies and practices will emerge in the latter part of this decade which will change the way the region extracts, produces, distributes and consumes energy. Hill hopes that some of these trends will enable ASEAN’s economies to grow without further damage to the environment.
From national grids to micro-grids and off-grid power
160M people in ASEAN (about 28% of the region) have no electricity. Getting full access to all through extending the grid will prove challenging and expensive. Micro-grids, such as the one operating as a test centre in Pulau Ubin will help to bridge this gap. Smaller plants powered by hybrid fossil and renewable sources will help to bring electricity to rural communities in Southeast Asia that previously have had to rely on generators. Remote areas will benefit from advances in technology with solar power and battery storage that will create enough electricity for lighting and other low level devices. In the cities more households will take on individual solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.
Electric vehicles
Other parts of the world are using electric cars and buses, and Singapore is looking at options in this space. SMRT added 600 Toyota Prius hybrid cars to its fleet at the end of last year and there are experiments with fully electric cars. Charging stations are starting to appear in select parts of Singapore.
Electric two wheelers are going to experience a tenfold increase during the course of this decade. Electric bikes are likely to replace petrol motorbikes and scooters throughout the region which will help to manage smog levels as urban populations grow.
Other types of electric personal transport such as Segways, scooters, skateboards etc are starting to pop up in our parks. These will become more mainstream forms of transport for short commutes during the rest of the decade. Governments in the region have been slow to recognise the advantages of electric two wheelers, seeing it as something that needs to be regulated and kept off the roads and off the walkways. This will change as the advantages of low cost, low speed vehicles become more mainstream
BURMA IN TRANSITION-http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/burma-transi...MYO AUNG Myanmar
Since 2010, Burma has been an epicenter of unexpected, unprecedented, and rapid change. Following a quasi-free election in 2010, the Burmese government released hundreds of political prisoners, relaxed media restrictions, legalized labor unions, implemented crucial economic reforms, and made several attempts at national reconciliation with ethnic armed groups.
Most significantly, the government allowed for the development of a more open political environment in which leading opposition leader and former political prisoner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and her party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory in parliamentary by-elections. Civil society is in overdrive and determined to make the most of the openings. Protests on Burma’s streets are a common occurrence.
However, despite the positive developments, Burma remains mired in conflict. These photographs present a snapshot of life in Burma today, highlighting both the causes for hope and progress and the immense challenges that remain.
Protestors still feel the threat of arrest and violent crackdowns, and though nominal democracy has replaced military autocracy, its processes are far from democratic. Military attacks against the ethnic Kachin and Shan villages continue, and have resulted in an increase in the number of internally displaced persons in the country. Decades of misrule have crippled Burma’s infrastructure and its economy at large. Additionally, the health care and education systems are in disarray and severely underfunded.
For the past two decades, Burma’s democracy movement has advocated for tripartite dialogue between the government, Aung San Suu Kyi, and representatives of ethnic nationalities. While the government is now in dialogue with opposition forces, its tenuous ceasefire processes with ethnic leaders often lack transparency, divide ethnic representatives, and exclude civil society.
Genuine peace and national reconciliation will not be possible without respect for the fundamental principles of equality and non-discrimination. Arakan State witnessed what appeared to be state-sanctioned violence against the minority Rohingya ethnic group, which resulted in mass displacement, arrests, and deaths. Government officials continue to practice systematic discrimination against the mostly Muslim group, denying their most basic rights. In addition, several hundred political prisoners remain behind bars. And Burmese democracy is hamstrung by its undemocratic 2008 Constitution, which mandates that 25 percent of seats in Parliament belong to the military.
Transitions are never easy and Burma’s is more complicated than it may seem. The general desire for a democratic and inclusive state is widely shared, but the country is hardly out of the weeds. Civil society victories, such as the successful protests that suspended the Myitsone Dam in 2011, are undermined by events like the violent crackdown on monks and villagers protesting at the Letpadaung c
This document discusses how enterprise applications need to be prepared for the growing mobile user base. It provides tips for organizations, including adopting the end user's perspective, ensuring services can be accessed 24/7 from any device, and using a "one web" approach to application performance management that treats all devices and browsers equally. The document also stresses the importance of meeting and exceeding user expectations around performance and satisfaction to drive adoption of mobile apps and websites.
The document certifies that Steven Ostrov completed a training program awarded by Tripwire Enterprise 8.3 Professional. It also lists Shannon Schlothauer but does not specify her role. The summary is only 2 sentences to keep it brief as requested.
This back issue of EAPJ contains valuable case studies for enterprise, solution and business architects. The articles apply enterprise architecture best practices to a wide variety of commercial, government and non-profit situations.
Leverage your career competencies to map out your route to personal and profe...Vlerick Business School
Leverage your career competencies to map out your route to personal and professional success
Career coach Inge De Clippeleer
Ever wondered what differentiates a successful professional career from an unsuccessful one? Ever wondered where your career is taking you in the next 10 years? This session will provide you some guidelines for steering your career in the right direction by outlining the basic principles of career self-management and by gaining insight into internal and external factors that influence your career success.
From Point A to Point B: Gaining Momentum through Transitions & New Types of...Rebecca Kate Miller
This document discusses helping students transition through various stages by connecting the dots between high school, college-level research, and adulthood. It notes challenges students face, including inadequate research skills, difficulty tying together information, and balancing multiple roles for adult students. The role of librarians is also discussed, including focusing on concepts rather than tools, embracing pedagogical expertise, and expanding responsibilities. Examples are provided of instruction programs that develop academic integrity tutorials and use communities of practice to strategically grow programming through reflection and partnerships. Overall, the document advocates connecting students to resources and supporting their development through transitions.
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This document discusses disruptive technology in human resources. It provides examples of disruptive technologies like the Apple computer, FedEx overnight delivery, Avon's home cosmetic sales, and McDonald's fast food model. It argues that while cost controls, technology, finance, and marketing are important, human capital is the most differentiating force for organizations. People are the only active asset and nothing happens until a human is involved. All improvements, incremental or massive, come from human capital.
This Lustratus REPAMA presentation explores some of the likely channel models that cloud computing will bring about. It is circulated in DRAFT form to create discussion and debate.
This document discusses governance 2.0 and open civil societies. It notes several global issues facing governments and shifts in citizen expectations towards more transparency and participation. Governance 2.0 involves governments openly sharing more of their data online and engaging citizens. Examples are given of governments using tools like mobile apps and data sharing to be more transparent in areas like health, education and the environment. Principles of open government data are outlined around making data open, accessible and reusable. Ways to achieve more open government include establishing open data portals and sharing non-sensitive data through online feeds and catalogs to create value for citizens.
The Enterprise Network's Role in Business Resilienceeircom
Ronan McCarthy, Managed Services Principal of eircom explores what it means to be Business Resilient, the challenges and opportunities this brings, and the role of the enterprise network in optimising resilience.
Leveraging Apps, Social Media, and Your Digital Reputation for Professional S...Paul Brown
Originally presented as a webinar to the membership of OSA-The Optical Society in November of 2015. This presentation provides an overview of how to leverage social media and online tools to enhance networking and one's own visibility and brand.
Cloud the new disruptive technology v2 by Raymondannekee
The document discusses how cloud computing is a disruptive technology with the potential to transform traditional industries. It provides statistics showing strong growth in cloud spending and adoption. Examples are given of companies in different industries that have been disrupted through new cloud-based business models and technologies, such as online banking without physical branches, mobile apps that provide product information to consumers, and digital payment systems without traditional intermediaries. The document highlights IBM's leadership in both private/hybrid cloud infrastructure services and the cloud professional services market.
Welcome to the new Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal! We serve practicing and aspiring enterprise architects, as well as those who apply the holistic perspective of enterprise architecture to other disciplines. EAPJ informs their daily work and benefits their careers with content that is focused, concise, authoritative, practical and accessible. In this column, we preview all articles and recommend introductory reading each piece that assumes specialized knowledge.
This issue focuses on how EA can empower organizations to achieve their goals. EA and quality expert Mike Novak compares the TOGAF® framework for enterprise architecture with the Baldrige approach to organizational performance assessment and improvement, and shows how organizations could benefit from integrating the two paradigms. This is a great article for all those who have wondered about the relationship between EA and quality practices, or would like to learn more about either paradigm. The article assumes a bit of familiarity with the TOGAF standard, so novices should consult one of the references at the end of this article.
This issue also features an interview with Mike Callahan, a senior partner in AgileLayer, a business architecture methodology, software and consulting provider. Mike Callahan introduces us to his area of expertise, and explains how business architects practice many of the approaches Mike Novak describes in his TOGAF/Baldrige article.
I’d like to thank our expert reviewers for this issue, Jeff Hensgen and Chris McCurdy. EAPJ needs additional seasoned professionals like them willing to willing to help develop and select the best articles.
Bangladesh's hi-tech industry is growing due to several factors:
- A large, young population that is increasingly tech-savvy and connected
- Initiatives by local companies to manufacture smartphones and develop IoT devices
- Growing foreign investment in tech startups, especially in fintech, logistics, and mobility
However, challenges remain including a lack of skilled middle managers and low labor productivity compared to countries like China and India. Building strategic partnerships and a strong "Digital Bangladesh" brand could help the country further develop its hi-tech sector and attract more local and global demand.
Discuss overall trends in Internet access, usage, and purchasing around the world.
Define emerging economies and explain the vital role of information technology in economic development.
Outline how e-marketers apply market similarity and analyze online purchase and payment behaviors in planning market entry opportunities.
The document provides an overview of the advantages of investing in the information technology industry in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates. Some of the key points highlighted include Dubai's growing economy, political stability, world-class infrastructure, relaxed taxation rules, and initiatives to promote happiness and well-being. The top trends shaping the IT industry in 2020 are discussed as the increasing adoption of cloud computing, digital transformation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence/cognitive technologies, and the Internet of Things. Challenges for foreign investors establishing businesses in the UAE include requirements for local sponsorship and understanding cultural norms.
A quarterly round up of 25 Internet and Technology developments from across the Middle East, as well as wider global developments which may impact (or be of interest) to people in the region. Curated by ictQATAR's Social Impact Manger, Damian Radclife.
Middle East Stories this quarter include: the most popular online activities in the Middle East, how UAE is the Global Smartphone Leader, Social Media Usage during Ramadan, eCommerce Insights and regional insights from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report.
Wider research includes: how mobile devices driving a return to the living room, uncovering the digital habits of Kenyan youth, evolving Cell Phone Behaviors, Vietnam’s new online censorship law and efforts to connect the next 5 billion online.
Impact of Pandemic on Fintech Services among Young NetizensIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper that studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fintech service usage among young internet users in India. It found that factors like financial awareness, fintech trends, and financial inclusion were interrelated and positively impacted by the pandemic. Fintech usage increased significantly during the pandemic as many apps helped enable cashless transactions. A survey was conducted among 200 young Indian internet users which found that financial awareness and fintech trends were positively correlated with financial inclusion. The pandemic increased awareness and usage of fintech services and helped promote financial inclusion.
“After all, in order to achieve impressive results as other advanced countries, Vietnam needs to accelerate its labor productivity. The confrontation between the world’s development models ultimately lies in the fact that which model creates higher productivity. That is also the reason why we see great world’s powers competing against each other primarily not about trade, but technology. As technology is the way to help Vietnam get rid of its short-sightedness and strive for ambitious visions, the dream of Vietnam becoming an IT nation will soon come true."
In the last 5 years, Vietnam has been going through positive changes in digital transformation, thus moving forward into a digital economy and a digital society. Therefore, the wave of tech startups as well as startup projects from large companies, has continuously been on the rise. With the entire technology industry’s substantial growth in general, it can be said that by 2020, Vietnam will be considered as an IT nation of Southeast Asia. Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that an additional 50,000 IT businesses (ICT) is necessary for Vietnam to accelerate its digital transformation. A trend called Make In Vietnam is on a strong momentum where the developers and technology experts have considered more about bringing Vietnamese products to the world. Product companies are gradually showing their appearance.
At present, the IT industry is being evaluated as one of the leading industries in Vietnam. There is a number of more than 153 institutions training 50,000 IT personnel. According to experts’ assessment, Vietnam will be an ideal destination for leading technology companies in the world and the region to have their product development located. Particularly in the Vietnam market, there are numerous small and large startups developing potential projects directly related to AI and Machine Learning, which creates an abundance of outstanding values for the technology industry as a whole.
Report includes:
- Vietnam - New Destination;
- Vietnam - IT Talent Pool;
- Vietnam Developers' Salary;
- Vietnam IT Personnel Supply-Demand
Report by: https://topdev.vn
India's internet usage is poised to dramatically increase, with over 330 million users projected by 2015. However, India currently realizes only modest GDP gains from the internet, contributing 1.6% compared to 3.4% in developed countries. With the right conditions, India could triple its internet-driven GDP to around $100 billion by 2015 by expanding infrastructure into rural areas, increasing digital literacy, and encouraging internet applications across the economy. Realizing this potential will require collaboration between policymakers, private enterprises, and entrepreneurs.
Tips for the Food sector: To keep up with this constantly shifting consumer behavior, look for early signs by using Google Trends to see how demand for certain food products or delivery services is changing to meet people’s needs.
Tips for Travel marketers: Our APAC travel recovery itinerary revealed that people have local trips and safety in mind, so marketers should seek to provide safety information upfront and present local product offerings and fun activities.
Tips for keeping people entertained: Though some people who signed up for a new entertainment source might stay, there’s also a higher likelihood of churn when their trial period ends. If you saw an increase in people signing up for your online products and services, focus on retention to keep them coming back, especially if you offered a free trial during the pandemic.
Tips for merchants: Make sure you integrate digital payment options for your consumers. Digital payments are expected to see a continued boost post-COVID-19, and trust in e-Wallets will likely increase.
Although there is still some instability, the internet sector in SEA is set to emerge stronger than ever in a post-COVID-19 world. The digital economy remains a bright spot in a very challenging economic environment, and e-Commerce remains a key driver of growth. The biggest takeaway for brands and marketers is the need to focus on people and their changing habits online, as well as keeping up with changing trends, as we continue to understand what our new normal will look like in the future.
The document discusses the evolving digital payments industry in India. It notes that digital payments are expected to reach $500 billion by 2020, accounting for 15% of GDP. Customer demand is driving companies to offer instant, one-touch payment solutions. The government's JAM Trinity initiative of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and mobile phones holds the key to transforming financial inclusion in India. Technology is projected to make payments simpler with merchant networks growing 10x by 2020 and driving consumption. Digital identity will help accelerate customer acquisition.
The document discusses the history and impact of information and communication technology (ICT) in Bangladesh. It notes that ICT use began increasing in the 1960s and expanded in the following decades. Today, ICT plays an important role in Bangladesh's economy by contributing to productivity and competitiveness. ICT has impacted various sectors like business, banking, tourism, and trade by enabling e-commerce, online banking, and more efficient information management. However, Bangladesh still faces some challenges to fully realizing the potential of ICT, such as inadequate infrastructure and skills.
Global Technology Trends & Top Ten Startup Hubs 2019Bernard Moon
Update report by SparkLabs Group (www.sparklabsgroup.com) that provides an overview of general technology trends, global venture capital trends, and startup trends around the world. Snapshots of the top 10 startup hubs in the world: Silicon Valley, NYC, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Seoul, Boston, and Los Angeles.
From our local office at Beijing, we are glad to release an introduction to the Chinese Internet Market.
With the chinese economy still growing fast, the internet market has experimented an incredible growth in recent years. And what is more promising, every analysis foresee what is seems to be an unprecedented boom for the years to come.
Seminar on tech investment trends in asia (bird & bird may 2013)Padraig Walsh
This is a presentation I delivered in Europe to highlight the growing importance of Asia in tech investment. The purpose was to rebalance certain views about the position of Asia in the tech investment world. I followed a theme of reality checks and myths - though some myths are true. The presentation was ably supported by input and insight from my good friends and colleagues, Conor O'Mara (Jefferies), Robert Agnew (Marlin LLC), and Ted Chwu (Bird & Bird, IP team). The presentation sets out personal observations, and the responsibility for errors remain mine.
Cognizant is the only company to earn a place in the list of Forbes fastest growing technology companies every year since the list’s inception. Its intriguing growth leaves us inquisitive – is there a framework to excel? Has Cognizant found the same? It is known that the book Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras influenced Francisco D’Souza (CEO of Cognizant) the most. He is committed to establish a “cult like” culture focused on core values. But, beyond this, does their dual mandate of run better and run different have any role in their monumental growth? Cognizant is not only preaching about helping their clients to transform in order to run better and run different but also walking the talk by practicing the dual mandate within organization from its early days. This paper digs into Cognizant’s history and current trends to understand what they have done to run better and run different.
The Work Ahead: Asia Drives Digital’s FutureCognizant
In this installment of our Work Ahead series, we explore how C-level execs in the Asia Pacific and Middle East are incorporating digital technologies and techniques to ensure a successful future of work.
Bangladesh's hi-tech industry is growing due to several factors: a young and tech-savvy population, growing middle class, widespread mobile and internet connectivity, and government initiatives to develop infrastructure and train professionals. Major challenges include a lack of skilled workers, low productivity compared to countries like China and India, and a reliance on foreign talent for middle management. Building strategic partnerships and promoting a "Digital Bangladesh" brand could help attract more local and global demand for Bangladesh's hi-tech sector.
Bangladesh's hi-tech industry is growing due to several factors: a young and tech-savvy population, growing middle class, widespread mobile and internet connectivity, and government initiatives to develop infrastructure and train professionals. However, challenges remain including a lack of skilled middle managers and low labor productivity compared to countries like China and India. Building strategic partnerships and promoting a "Digital Bangladesh" brand could help attract more local and global demand for Bangladesh's hi-tech sector.
The document discusses the growth of eCommerce in India. Some key points:
- Ecommerce in India grew 34% annually from 2009-2014 to reach $16.4 billion, and is expected to reach $21.3 billion in 2015.
- Online retail and marketplaces (eTail) have grown the fastest at 56% annually over 2009-2014, reaching $6 billion in 2015. Books, apparel, and electronics are the largest product categories.
- Growth is fueled by India's large population and demographic dividend of young internet users, as well as expanding internet access. However, internet penetration remains low at only 19% currently.
- Major developments in 2014 include mobile becoming
Globally, there were 3.4 billion unique mobile
subscribers and 6.9 billion SIM connections in 2013, with an average of 1.8 active SIM cards per unique subscriber.
The number of mobile broadband connections has also grown astoundingly to well over two billion in 2013 from 364 million in 2009. This growth is expected to continue and India is predicted to be the second largest mobile broadband market by 2016, with 367 million connections, following China with 639 million connections.
30 recent Internet and Technology developments you may have missed - also found at: http://www.slideshare.net/ictQATAR/digital-qatar-internet-society-digest-septoct-final-171012-2
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Our own new research into bullying in tech supports this slightly sinister, nefarious view of career climbers who clamber on up, at both the expense of the company and their victims. Findings reveal that from a self-selecting study of over 650 IT professionals, 75% reported they had been bullied. Of these 94% highlighted psychological bullying, and in 74% of cases, the perpetrator was senior. This perfectly fits the profile of individuals who strategically abuse others to maintain their own position. And this type of manipulative self-protectionism can really hinder the bottom line.
InfoShot: Smartphones Dial Up The WorldIDG Connect
Smartphones are the phasers that bridge real and virtual worlds and as prices have fallen and more countries have created wealth they have become enormously popular. As the mobile device most of use to access the internet they are arguably the most significant devices in use today. But smartphones cost more than ‘dumbphones’ – basic handsets – or feature phones and so they are still advancing in market share. However, falling prices, more wireless broadband access and deliberate attempts to crack more markets on the part of vendors mean that smartphones are coming to more of us all over the world.
Over the last couple of months, many of the big US tech companies have been releasing their diversity reports. It’s reinforced a fact most people have known for a while: Tech is a white man’s game.
While many of the companies have a fairly high proportion of women in the workforce, few are in tech or leadership roles. Pinterest’s Tracy Chou recently gathered info on the number of female software engineers at various startups and big tech companies.
Women make up about 16% of engineers from 150 startups. The only company with more than 100 engineers and more than a 20% female workforce is ThoughtWorks. Dropbox, Mozilla and Yelp’s engineering workforces are only 8% women, Github’s is 6%.
But while gender and tech is an issue often brought up, ethnic diversity is also still a major issue. According to US census figures, the ethnic make-up of the country’s 317 million-odd people is around 16% Hispanic, 12% African America and 4.7% Asian. Look at the diversity reports of some of the US’ biggest tech firms however, and you’d get a very different picture.
Tech companies seem to have a disproportionate amount of Asian workers compared to Hispanic or African American workers. Most have fewer than 3% African American workers and 9% Hispanic, but 30% Asian – often within tech or leadership roles. Only Apple can say its company workforce is even close to the ethnic make-up of the country.
This isn’t to say companies should purposely go out of their way to hire Hispanic or African Americans over other ethnicities. Companies should hire the best people for the job irrelevant of other issues. But why there are so few people from certain communities when they make up a significant proportion of the population needs to be looked at.
Bullying: The Uncomfortable Truth About IT IDG Connect
IDG Connect has spoken to a range of bullying experts and
conducted research to a self-selecting sample of 650 IT
professionals. This report blends new statistics with detailed feedback from over 400 testimonials and aims to shed light on this misunderstood and overlooked topic.
The document surveys hybrid cloud adoption in Australia and New Zealand. It finds that the top barriers to hybrid cloud implementation are integration costs, lack of interoperability and complexity with multiple service level agreements. It also finds that future cloud investment plans show a preference for on-premise private cloud solutions, as well as off-premise public cloud services both approved and unapproved by IT departments. The high frequency of cloud-supported projects demonstrates how organizations in Australia and New Zealand have come to rely on cloud services.
Security in the Hybrid Cloud Now and in 2016 IDG Connect
New research conducted by IDG Connect, on behalf of F5, collates the views of 50 IT decision makers in large organisations across Australia and Singapore. This infographic investigates the state of current security practices in the hybrid cloud and looks at where things are likely to head by 2016.
The majority of organizations in France, Germany and the UK have more work to do to implement security measures required by new EU regulations on networking, information security, and data protection that take effect in the next two to three years. A survey found that only 39% have all measures in place for the Network and Information Security regulation, and only 20% have all measures for the General Data Protection Regulation. Establishing new hardware, software, and security policies to comply with the regulations is seen as the biggest challenge, along with high implementation costs. In-house IT departments are expected to take primary responsibility for assessing compliance requirements and developing policies.
OpenStack: The Platform of Choice for Cloud [Infographic]IDG Connect
An IDG Connect survey found that many organizations are on their second or third implementation of private cloud using either internally developed solutions or vendor offerings. Companies face challenges like resource management, application management, application migration, and simplifying IT management. Vendors and system integrators can help address these issues and provide guidance on starting an OpenStack implementation to manage private cloud environments.
Digital Maturity in the Financial Sector IDG Connect
The digital maturity of Financial Services through South East Asia currently lags behind
some markets like China. Yet looking ahead, it is set to change over the next 18 months
– if the cost barriers preventing organizations from achieving digital maturity can be overcome. This infographic highlights core digital marketing trends in the finance sector for 2015 and beyond, collected from a split of 150 senior marketers in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia.
This infographic, produced by IDG Connect, provides feedback from 110 C-Level and IT decision makers on desktop virtualisation. These professionals come from a broad range of industries and help deliver a snapshot of industry opinion on Desktop as a Service through the UK.
20 Red Hot, Pre-IPO Companies in 2015 B2B TechIDG Connect
This document profiles 20 privately held tech companies that the author believes have good prospects for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. It provides a brief overview and analysis of each company, including their market opportunity and competitiveness, funding to date, and interviews with executives. The author notes that not all of the companies will necessarily IPO, as some may be acquired, but they each have a chance to go public if market conditions are right and they can continue executing well. The purpose is to survey interesting pre-IPO companies, not to predict their success or failure on public markets.
The Cloud may invoke images of effervescence that leaves no trace,
but in reality the Cloud means just another data center, along with the
accompanying Carbon Footprint. The issue of being Green has never
been higher on the agenda, but how do professionals feel about Green IT,
and how does this vary either side of the Atlantic? This paper compares
the enthusiasm for Green IT between the US and Europe.
Voted third in ‘105 Crucial Websites on Data Centers for IT Specialists’, by Technologyschools.org, ‘The Future of the Data Center’ is an Oracle sponsored social portal created by IDG Connect. Through a new white paper, 24 blogs and a targeted email campaign, this delivered 561 leads from 26 countries in 6 months.
The document discusses Ethiopia's efforts to build a private sector and attract foreign investment through its $79 billion Growth and Transformation Plan. Some key points:
- The plan aims to boost infrastructure like roads, railways, and a large hydroelectric dam, but the World Bank and IMF are concerned it is "crowding out" the private sector.
- Foreign interest is rising due to Ethiopia's large, low-cost workforce and central location, but its business culture can be difficult for outsiders to understand given the country's history of state dominance.
- Ethiopia has ambitious goals but faces challenges in transitioning to a market-driven economy and making credit available to support private businesses. Success will
Healthcare Report: Robots, Tablets & Social MediaIDG Connect
IDG Connect has released a new report on how consumer devices are dramatically changing healthcare. It examines the numerous benefits it offers, such as the integration of iPads into practicing medicine, and the use of apps that can track patient health. It also questions the impact of these devices on the patient-doctor relationship. Are these devices actually improving patient care – or are they contributing to destroying the heart of healthcare – the traditional patient-doctor relationship?
The document summarizes research from IDG Connect on legal and marketing professionals' views of US data privacy laws. The research found that 81% of respondents did not think US privacy laws were sufficient or did not know if they were sufficient. Both legal and marketing professionals shared similar views, with only around 20% feeling current laws go far enough. The US has a fragmented approach to data privacy laws compared to a unified approach in the EU. There is debate around whether proposed stronger EU privacy laws under the GDPR will have significant impacts on US companies.
This document provides an overview of big data in 2013 based on a survey of 469 global IT and marketing professionals. It finds that while most see big data as an opportunity, there is a disconnect between IT and marketing departments in how they collaborate on big data initiatives. Both sides agree more investment in data scientists is needed to maximize big data's potential but recognize challenges in skills gaps and a lack of communication between top managers. The future of big data is predicted to grow substantially across industries globally by 2018, though regulations and consumer privacy concerns present challenges that companies must address.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
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"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
1. EMERGING
MARKETS
No More BRICS In The Wall?
As major economies continue to struggle and previously up and coming
markets such as Brazil and China mature, IDG Connect investigates
opinion on the next emerging markets. With expanded background on
Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Qatar, this paper also presents local
opinions from experts on the ground.
7th December 2012
2. CONTENTS
EMERGING MARKETS 3
Introduction 3
Findings 3
End of BRICS? 4
INDONESIA: BOOMTIME 5
Expert Opinion - Ali Abdali, 6
Strategic Advisor QG, Indosat
VIETNAM: WAITING FOR THE TURNING POINT 7
Expert Opinion - Vu-Thanh Nguyen, 9
Industry Analyst, Founder Joyful.LY
MYANMAR: ASIA’S UNPOLISHED GEM 11
Expert Opinion - John Naing, 13
Citrix Systems, Systems Administrator
QATAR: A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS 14
Expert Opinion - Krishna Gopal, 15
Business Advisor - Middle East & Africa
CONCLUSION 16
3. INTRODUCTION
As economic troubles continue to plague mature markets, organizations are continuously looking towards new
pastures in which to establish themselves. IDC predicts that emerging markets will contribute for 53% of 2012’s
global ICT growth. Knowing which of these countries is next to boom is invaluable for companies looking to
expand or balance lack of growth in more established environments. To test opinion, we conducted a straw poll
of 675 global IT and business professionals on which country they felt was about to boom and why. This report
provides an overview of the results, highlighting the views of the voters, as well as analysing the findings and
giving background on the featured countries.
FINDINGS
The results show an overwhelming favourite in Indonesia, which claimed a massive 36% of the vote. Reasons cited
were varied, including a large population in the hundreds of millions, close proximity to other important markets
such as China, Australia, Singapore and South Korea, and a “large population that is slowly developing from 3rd
world base to greater prosperity.” Another interviewee noted; “With a population of over 150 million, most of the
younger population speaking English, and with the economy improving, the IT market will only explode in the
near future.”
The second most popular choices was Vietnam. Its “Which of the below do you think will be the next big IT
low-cost labour, proximity to China and rapidly market?”
expanding IT sectors were the main drivers in
people’s choices. “I think Vietnam already has
proven a very cost-efficient flexibility along with Other 11% 1% Cambodia
multi-skilled professionals,” one interviewee
said. “I’ve done some work with developers from 4% Uganda
Vietnam and they’re improving their abilities
really fast,” noted another. Meanwhile, third place 6% Myanmar
Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 6% Iraq
continually high spending thanks to oil revenues
were big drivers of choice. “Qatar is spending on a 8% Israel
lot of investment within the country infrastructure
and building a strong potential competitor to the
11% Qatar
UAE and in specific Dubai,” said one interviewee.
17% Vietnam
“In this respect keeping their goals and roadmap in
mind they can be the next big IT market.” 36% Indonesia
In fourth, Myanmar’s recent release from military
rule and easing of sanctions from countries such as [Source: IDG Connect]
the US means people are seeing a promising future.
“People there may be slow to adopt but lots of companies will be vying to gain a presence there resulting in bigger
requirements in IT,” said one respondent. Israel’s focus on innovation and investment in R&D was seen as the
country’s most attractive feature, while the large population and potential growth of Africa was the focus for those
who chose Uganda. Many felt the government’s lack of IT infrastructure was also a potential investment point.
Featuring countries from every corner of every continent, the “other” option showed an incredibly wide range
of choices, spanning 31 countries. Answers ranged from Trinidad & Tobago to Mongolia, but the overall impact
on the survey was minimal. Demonstrating the wide influence of IT across the world, the range of answers show
both the massive untapped potential of IT and its unpredictable nature.
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4. END OF BRICS RULE?
From our results there seemed to be a clear message; BRICS countries are the past, and the APAC region is
the future. Just 5% of respondents chose BRICS countries, compared to 61% who named APAC countries (not
including China or India). Even the Middle East seems a more promising market, with 15% of respondents
choosing it as the next boom region.
The reasons for this are varied. BRICS countries 80
have all experienced tremendous growth in [Source: IDG Connect]
recent years, but that trend has slowed - the 70
IMF recently cut its 2012 and 2013 growth
expectations for China, India and Brazil for 60
example. The countries have also seen large
investments in their technology & telecoms
50
markets, and while not reaching saturation
Percentage
point, are fast approaching it.
40
This stands in stark contrast to other countries
such as Myanmar. Recently opened up to the 30
world after years of military rule, companies
such as Coca-Cola are entering the market there. 20
IDC named the country an ‘unpolished gem;
virtually one of the last untapped ICT markets 10
in the APAC region’ and predicted 15% growth
in IT spending in 2012 alone, while research 0
by IDG Connect found that almost 70% of IT
Don’t know
Africa
Middle East
BRICS
APAC
professionals predict a surge in the IT market
there. One respondent commented, “Even if
not Indonesia in the end, I believe the next big
IT market will be in south-east Asia, due to its
countries’ gross domestic products, even during
the global financial crisis.”
The Middle East too has a similar story. While many parts of the region have well-established infrastructure, many
expect greater spending thanks to government oil wealth. Iraq sees a similar situation to Myanmar, as years of war
have left the country lacking infrastructure but looking to make up ground quickly. Previous research from IDG
Connect showed that 66% of IT professionals think IT in Iraq presents an opportunity for foreign companies.
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5. INDONESIA: BOOMTIME
[Source: We are Social 2012]
22% 18% 80%
Internet of of online
penetration population population 109%
55m
users
Users on social
Internet users Mobile penetration
networks
BMI is expecting Indonesian IT spending to reach US$6bn this year, up 12% on the year before, so things
are looking good. “The market has much growth potential,” the report says, but warns, “Indonesia’s uneven
development and digital divide are major barriers to faster growth within this potentially huge IT market.”
Currently the country has around 55 million internet users according to Internet World Stats, the eigth most in
the world. But that’s just a tiny fraction (22%) of its 245 million population. That fraction is growing however;
the number of internet users saw 29% year-on-year growth, and the signs are good this is going to improve.
Predictions point to 76 million users by 2015. Like other countries in the region, Indonesia has been investing
in undersea cables. Soon after finishing the Malaysia to Indonesia Batam-Dumai-Melaka (BDM) system, a new
4,600km Australia-Indonesia-Singapore cable was announced. More cables means cheaper access and better
quality connections, something that always helps foster growth.
Despite these numbers, it’s clearly the majority are accessing the web while on the go, and not from a desk. While
mobile penetration is at 54%, Metrodata Electronics put PC penetration at a mere 5%, and the majority of those
were netbooks. However, these figures are also on the increase with PC sales growing by 36% last year, and could
rise by around the same amount this year. According to StatCounter, Windows XP is still the most popular OS,
with Win7 not too far behind. Firefox is the most popular web browser by far, with Chrome following a distant
second.
Unlike everywhere else in the world, BlackBerry still has a strong following in Indonesia, and accounts for 12
million out of around 77 million users worldwide. According to ROA Holdings Analysis, smartphone penetration
stands at around 60% and is expected to rise even further. Tablets are also on the rise. While just 700,000 were
sold in the last year, the fourth quarter of last year saw sales spike by almost 100%, and indications are good that
this will continue to grow at a rapid pace.
This strong relationship with mobile internet is helping drive Indonesia’s love of social media. While 1 million
Indonesians may have left Facebook in the last three months according to Socialbakers, the social network still
boasts over 40 million users. That number puts the country fourth in the world, still 2 million ahead of the UK.
While the recent loss of such a high number of people may be concerning, it may just be a blip, and with only
16% penetration, there is still huge potential. One of the reasons for this exodus could be the growing number of
phishing scams on the site that are masquerading as adult videos and photos of Indonesian celebs. Perhaps better
education on security would help.
5
6. It’s not just Facebook that’s popular. Since the launch of a local language site, LinkedIn has grown quickly, with
over a million joining in its first two months. Twitter is also a favourite; in January Indonesia was fifth worldwide
in terms of users. Though these figures are from the start of the year, a quick view on A World Of Tweets will
show the country is among the most active on the micro blogging site. Online games are also popular; TMG’s
KotaGames saw 85% month-on-month growth earlier in the year.
Though a free country, the government does seem wary of the internet and has made several moves to censor it
over the years. The Guardian rates the country as having ‘selective’ or ‘substantial’ censoring for political, social,
and internet tools. The most recent case was the blocking of over a million porn sites ahead of Ramadan. While
this is no big loss for the internet, censoring one kind of site could easily lead to more, and be the start of a
slippery slope.
Indonesia has some real plus points. Mobility is on the increase and becoming more widespread, and the laying
of cables will no doubt help facilitate this. Aside from the occasional effort to censor parts of the internet, the
government is helping to push things in the right direction. But with millions still not benefiting, there is still a
long way to go.
Expert Opinion
Ali Abdali,
Strategic Advisor,
Indosat
Indonesia provides products and services globally. Yet there is already a definite need for 24/7 operational
IT infrastructure. The big necessities here are disaster recovery mechanism, a secure environment, an up-
to-date data center, stable transmission and agile infrastructure to support business and services around the
clock. I believe cloud computing is the answer to all this.
The cloud offers embedded security, redundant data accessibility and online backup. It also allows
governments to manage a large, dynamic and mobile population within many entry points (airports, sea
ports and land borders) and a fast influx of tourists, business travellers and migrants. To be successful, the
journey towards the cloud needs to be carefully planned, prepared and implemented. Firstly, there is the
choice between private, public, hybrid and community clouds. This selection is crucial to the business, and
its operation can have serious implications for the cost of the project.
It is important to choose a service model and understand the business’ priority. On top of which, it is
crucial to note that the adoption of the cloud will necessitate a change in the business’ management and IT
mindset. Compared to traditional IT, the cloud forces a new way of thinking where the staff no longer have
to ‘procure the required software and hardware’, but rather simply select the optimal program configuration.
A shift in management is therefore required in order for IT to concentrate on service utilization instead
of the usual asset ownership. This can be a long journey which makes it important for businesses to start
migration as soon as possible.
It is my firm belief that cloud computing is key to the future in Indonesia. As it continues to become a
crucial Asian production center, the country desperately needs to start its cloud computing journey. This is
the only true way to enable the country, and its businesses, to grow and perform.
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7. VIETNAM - WAITING FOR THE TURNING POINT
Users on social
Internet users Mobile penetration
networks
30m
users
34% 8% 86% 139%
Internet of of online
penetration population population
[Source: We are Social 2012]
South East Asia is an area of IT extremes. On the one hand, you have world leaders such as South Korea and
Singapore, while other places, like Burma, are completely open and void of major IT industries. Vietnam falls into
the second category, but the landscape might soon be changing.
IDC have predicted good things for both countries. For Vietnam, the research firm has called 2012 a turning point.
It predicts IT spending to increase by 19% and the size of the IT market will reach $3.25 billion. “2012 will be a year
that marks the powerful move of Vietnam ICT market,” says Lam Nguyen, country director, IDC Vietnam. “Online
services will grow strongly because of the high development of devices with high capacity of Internet connection,
plus the possibility of using the Internet of most people in urban areas and diverse services from service providers
such as digital content, online payment, trading services, or even dealing with government agencies only with
convenient mouse clicks.” If this is all comes to pass, Vietnam will be among the top IT spenders in APAC region
in 2012, thanks to adoption of cloud computing, the opening up of the telecoms industry (of the 100 million-plus
subscribers, 90% of the market share is captured by one company, Vinaphone), and the rise of e-payments.
The Vietnamese government has been consulting with foreign experts and authorities from 63 cities and provinces
on rolling out ICT to the country. According to the Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hong, the Ministry of
Information and Communications has asked local authorities to increase the involvement of private sector in IT.
“Vietnam considers ICT a key industry and one of the most important driving forces for economic development,”
he said.
7
8. The total number of smartphones in Vietnam is expected to rise by 5% this year to 21%, totalling a rise of around
2.7 million units. An increase in the percentage of smartphone owners using apps is predicted to increase from
35% to 40% thanks to more e/m-commerce services. In order to help facilitate this growth, the government aims
to increase the number of people using mobile phone services to 90% of its population by 2015 and 95% by 2020,
including getting 45% of the population using the Internet by 2015. The current figure stands at around 30%, or
around 30 million, placing the country 18th in the world for internet users. Tablets are also poised to become a big
thing. In Vietnam, tablet penetration currently stands at 2%, but it’s expected to rise 92% by the end of the year,
while Cambodians are one of the keenest users of the internet on their devices.
Vietnam has a less than stellar human rights records, but
has been especially harsh on the blogosphere. A number of
“2012 will be a year that
pro-democracy bloggers have been arrested and jailed for marks the powerful move
publicising their views, while the government blocks access to
politically sensitive websites and requires internet cafe owners of Vietnam ICT market”
to monitor and store information about users’ online activities.
Hopefully the opening up of neighbouring Myanmar and its Lam Nguyen, country director,
easing of restrictions may encourage others in the region to IDC Vietnam
follow suit.
Both countries have seen rapid surge in social media, seeing 59% growth though still only reaching 8% of the
overall population. The high Vietnam figures are fairly surprising, as Facebook is blocked within the country,
though its Firewall is easy to circumvent. Although these censorship issues (especially in Vietnam) need to be
addressed, both countries seem to be on the right track for embracing IT and incorporating it into becoming an
important part of everyday life.
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9. Analyst Opinion
Vu-Thanh Nguyen,
Industry Analyst,
Founder Joyful.LY
Potentials of Vietnam ICT market:
In the long term, Vietnam could become an important ICT market in ASEAN for several reasons.
▶▶ It’s an emerging market with expanding ICT demand. Within 10 years from 2000 to 2010, Vietnam’s
ICT market grew 19-fold and reached a total spending of $US 17 billion, according to Vietnam Ministry
of Information and Communications. It is expected to continue growing at an annual rate of 15-20%
over the next few years.
▶▶ On the consumer side, Vietnam has a large, young and educated population with a growing appetite
for ICT products and services. Of the estimated 91.5 million population, a quarter are under 15 years
old and by 2050, it is expected to have the 15th largest population in the world - the second largest
population in ASEAN after Indonesia. Together with a literacy rate of 94%, a mobile penetration rate
around 130% (118.5 million subscribers in February 2012), and a private consumption rate around 65%
total Vietnam GDP (US$ 71 billion in 2010), the consumer ICT market in Vietnam is and will continue
to be a large market in ASEAN.
▶▶ On the business side, most Vietnam businesses are still in the early phase of ICT adoption.
According to AMI-Partners, the Business ICT Adoption (BIA) index of Vietnam small and medium
businesses is 10 points out of 100; lower than that of Indonesia (12 points), India (18), Phillipines (19).
Therefore government agencies, banks, telecom players, and businesses are investing substantially on
their ICT infrastructure.
▶▶ Vietnam’s government is especially committed to develop ICT as a strategic economic sector - with
a targeted 8-10% GDP contribution by 2020 - and so are investing heavily in ICT infrastructure and
driving ICT adoption, as well as encouraging foreign investments in IT parks with various incentives
like free land rental, low income tax (10% for 15 years), and import - tax exemptions. That’s why big
ICT players like Alcatel, Intel, Canon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Motorola, NEC, Ericsson, Siemens, and
Samsung keep investing in Vietnam.
▶▶ According to Gartner and AT Kearney, Vietnam is among the top 10 global locations for software
outsourcing and it’s growing rapidly to serve Japanese, European, and US markets. Many companies
are outsourcing part of their IT development/testing or setting up IT teams in Vietnam to cut cost and
reduce the risk of putting all of their eggs in India or China.
▶▶ As corporate taxes and the cost to do business in China have increased over the years, especially
after recent riots against Japanese companies in China, many companies are looking to diversify their
investments to other countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar. These foreign companies
will need ICT products and services to conduct their businesses, which will drive up local ICT markets
in these countries, including Vietnam.
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10. Problems in the Vietnam ICT market
▶▶ Human resources: The rapid development of new technologies and growth of the Vietnam
market created a shortage of skilled ICT professionals, especially those with international exposure
and management skills. Every year, there are about 20,000 ICT graduates to join the workforce, but
they still need to be trained on the job for specific ICT skills. However, due to its history, Vietnam
has a large number of people that speak French, Russian, Chinese and English, as well as millions of
overseas Vietnamese. They could be the bridge for ICT players to do business in Vietnam or to provide
outsourcing/services to markets that require these languages.
▶▶ Software piracy: The high rate of software piracy among consumer markets means it is easier to
sell hardware instead of software to consumers and SMBs. Things are a little bit better in government
agencies and large businesses, as they have capital to invest on ICT and intellectual property laws are
better enforced in these sectors.
▶▶ High inflation: Vietnam’s economy suffers noticeably high inflation and its currency has also
devalued over the last few years. This will affect businesses in their pricing, payment and other financial
activities. However, cheap currency also creates opportunities for export-oriented services like software
outsourcing and hardware manufacturing.
▶▶ Corruption, bureaucracy, changing policies, weak and non-transparent law enforcement are
substantial problems for the economy in the whole, as well as for the ICT sector. While special treatment
is given to foreign-invested companies, they could be indirectly affected in businesses with their local
partners, who aren’t receiving such favoured treatments.
Opportunities for vendors
▶▶ In the next 1-2 years, the biggest opportunities for ICT players in Vietnam would be hardware/
software for public sectors, banking, telecom, and large businesses. Small and medium businesses
will need standard hardware and telecommunication services. For consumers, telecom services and
electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs) will be their main spending.
▶▶ Overall, hardware spending still dominates Vietnam’s total ICT spending, but businesses gradually
understand the importance of software, integrated solutions and after-sale services. For long-term
development, vendors should do more to educate the market on these matters.
▶▶ Although Vietnam’s telecom network has developed rapidly, it will still need to develop its wired
broadband infrastructure (e.g., fiber networks) to businesses and homes. This will require a long-term
commitment and investment from government, telecom players, and vendors. Vietnam also needs
much higher international bandwidth compared to the current level, as the government is aiming to
provide internet access to 70% of its 91 million population by 2020.
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11. MYANMAR - ASIA’S UNPOLISHED GEM
[Source: We are Social 2012]
1% 0.8% 80%
Internet
penetration
of of online 4%
population population
500,000
users
Users on social
Internet users
networks Mobile penetration
Despite Myanmar's checkered past, in the last 12 months the country has turned a corner. The release of the pro-
democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi after nearly 20 years of house arrest, free elections and the easing of
international sanctions on the country have seen the nation take a U-turn.
As well as greater freedom and the hope of improving the lives of the people, companies around the world are
seeing real potential for the country to become the next major emerging market. Companies such as Coca Cola
and ad agency WPP are already starting to build a presence, and executives are flying out on a regular basis to
scope out the landscape.
One of the big areas opening up is IT. IDC recently released a report into the country's IT sector, calling its
greenfield market an ‘Unpolished Gem’. "Myanmar is virtually one of the last untapped ICT markets in the Asia/
Pacific region with fast rising potential. For IT spend alone, IDC is expecting 15% year-on-year growth in 2012,
and the market is expected to reach US$268.45 million by 2016." That represents a massive annual growth rate of
14% over five years. IDC predicts Yangon and Mandalay will be the two leading IT hubs for foreign market-entry
and IT consumption, with telecoms, government, utility and energy, financial services, hospitality, and media
sectors all major areas for growth.
The government has taken steps towards the future, with both a long-term plan looking to 2030 set up in 2005 and
a more near-term one that addresses the plans for the next few years. These kind of goals help focus initiatives and
funds, and with so much change on the table coming all at once, focus will definitely be needed. The telecoms area
may be the first to take the leap, with Myanmar's Post & Telecommunications Department Director General, Khin
Maung Thet, saying a new communications law is being studied to create four new telecommunications licenses
in the country that are open to both local and foreign investors. Previously, foreign investors were barred from
holding a license.
11
12. Despite the buzz and talk of potential, Myanmar has been an information blackspot for IT, and the information
that is available is usually either outdated or comprised of sketchy estimates. Worldbank data shows there were
around 100,000 internet users as of 2009, a number which had stayed level for the previous few years, while
broadband is virtually non-existent. Mobile subscriptions stand at around 550,000, which equates to a penetration
figure of around 1%. Socialbaker, a site providing regular Facebook figures, doesn't have any Myanmar figures,
although as things open up this is bound to change. According to StatCounter, mobile access to the internet has
risen sharply from practically nothing at the start of the year to just under 9%, with Android being the most
popular user choice. For desktops, Windows is king, and web browser choice is split 50/50 between IE and Firefox.
Piracy levels in the area remain murky, neighbours such as Vietnam have software piracy levels around 80%,
meaning some companies, such as Microsoft, are nervy about entering the market. Introducing an IP system,
trademark registry and corresponding intellectual property law may help to alleviate fears, but that in itself could
bring more problems.
The government wants to triple the size of the economy in the next five years, and to facilitate that has been passing
dozens of new bills. Things are moving so quickly that according to Reuters, the country ‘risks overloading its
rickety institutions.'
These rapid changes could lead to a host of problems. The fast rate at which new bills are being passed could lead
to poorly thought and inadequate legislation, which would only put off investors and cause trouble for people and
companies on the ground. The government recognizes their lack of knowledge and expertise in many areas and
have been recruiting help from neighbours such as Singapore and Japan, but other dangers remain. The country
has a serious unemployment problem, and expanding too quickly into areas that require specialist skills will
create a major skills shortage. Already vast amounts of people are unemployable for skilled work, many in general
are unfamiliar with modern technology such as smartphones and desktop computers. Sustainable growth and
education are essential to prevent future problems.
By 2015 the government is hoping for 50% of the country to have wireless access. But with around 80% of the
country's 60 million people living in rural areas, many of them in poverty, there are several issues that first need to
be addressed; fixing the chronic lack of decent infrastructure, including the rolling power cuts; further relaxing of
internet censorship; and dealing with a general lack of familiarity with technology; and these are things that won't
happen overnight. To fulfill its potential, Myanmar has to move at the right pace and think things through, not
charge ahead blindly.
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13. Expert Opinion
John Naing,
Citrix Systems,
Systems Administrator
I grew up in Burma, and left around 17 years ago. I have lived and worked in the States since. My whole
family are still back home, and I will soon be joining them.
The current situation in the country is very promising, and so I want to go and give it a try. My two elder
brothers work in real-estate and selling motor vehicles, and are both doing very well. They say things are
looking bright and asked me if I wanted to come back and work with them and have a go, so I agreed.
My field of work is IT. Currently I work as a Citrix systems admin; I do a lot work with application
deployment and managing servers, as well as enterprise data centres. If my brothers want to do something
in IT, I will go down that road, if I want to do something myself, they have said they will help me out. If
we find a partner from overseas that wanted to come in and do something in IT, we’d be open to engaging
with them. Under current laws outside investors need a local partner - they can’t come in by themselves.
A lot of companies from Asia are coming into Burma and testing the water, but so far there is very little
indication of major US or UK corporations making the move. So far only a handful of companies, such
as Coca-Cola have started up, just to test. I think all of them are waiting for the new bill to come from the
government. The new investment law, amongst other things, which will remove the requirement for a local
investor, should be out by the end of August, but there are no confirmed details yet.
For IT in the country, there is actually nothing really solid, almost no companies that are doing IT as a
main business. Although there are a few modern pop shops. I think it’s very open for any companies who
start doing business in Burma.
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14. QATAR - A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
[Source: Internet World Stats, The Peninsular]
66.5% 59% 88% 100%
Internet of of online
penetration population population
560,000
users
Internet users Users on social Mobile penetration
networks
Last year saw Qatar’s ICT market post a growth figure of 21%. Its mature market is looking ahead to the cloud,
fiber-optics and replacing their old smartphones. The 2012 Global Information Technology Report saw Qatar
overtake the UAE as the second most IT-savvy country in the Gulf, one place behind Bahrain. The report explains
how the country “has managed to create one of the best environments for entrepreneurship and innovation
worldwide.” The report wasn’t all complimentary however. “On a less positive note, the low levels of competition
existing in the ICT and telecommunications sectors are affecting the overall affordability of accessing ICT,
especially in terms of broadband, hindering a wider diffusion and usage of ICT across the different agents in the
country, such as broadband internet subscriptions.”
In order to remedy these problems, Qatar’s state-backed Qatar National Broadband Network Company (Q.NBN)
has announced its plans to invest around half a billion dollars upgrading its broadband network, introducing
fiber-optics and boosting capacity for new telecom operators. CEO Mohamed Ali Al-Mannai said, “We see there
is the potential opportunity for more competitors to come into the market, but in which form this is not clear yet,
whether it would be a full telco operator or a small service provider.” With an eye on the 2022 World Cup, the
company aims to up high speed fiber optic penetration to 95% from the current 5%, reaching 30,000 homes by the
end of 2012 and 300,000 by 2015.
BMI’s expectations of the country are also rosy. “With its booming economy and ambitious ICT investment
program, Qatar is expected to be the fastest-growing IT market in the Gulf region over BMI’s five year forecast
period.” IT spending is expected to reach $533mn this year, up 15%, and they expect the World Cup “to fuel a new
wave of investment, while the government’s ICT-2015 strategy will also create opportunities.” One of the biggest
earners from all this has been Samsung; the electronics giant bagged $17.5m worth in sales last year, and has been
averaging growth of around 40% for the last few years.
One of the most popular products Qataris are buying is smartphones. Penetration has reached 75%, with the 15-
34 year olds buying the majority of the devices. A report by Nielsen shows apps are largely absent, with around
65% of all smartphone users having no apps on their phones at all. The report also noted that of the 25% that
didn’t own a smartphone, almost half cited price as the biggest barrier. Clearly cheaper devices and a way to draw
owners into using apps are high on the list of requirements.
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15. In this year’s Global Innovation Index Qatar is the highest rated in the MENA region, coming 33rd worldwide.
The index ranks 141 countries/economies based on their innovation capabilities and results, and includes some 15
economies from the Middle East and Northern Africa. Though Qatar’s nearest rival is UAE at 37th, the country
has fallen seven spots on last year. It seems jobs in the country are on the increase too. According to the Monster
Employment Index Middle East, online job opportunities in Qatar were up 34% year-on-year, with tech jobs
among the most popular listings.
As with any country, there are problems. The government acknowledges there are connectivity issues, skills
shortages and certain business environment challenges, but these are fairly small/trivial compared to other, less
developed MENA countries. But overall, whether telecoms, software, electronics or innovation - Qatar is on the
up. Growth across the industry is sky high and with the World Cup coming, investment will keep flooding in to
the country. Couple this with the government’s dedication to ICT and their 2015 plan and you’ve got a recipe for
success.
Expert Opinion
Krishna Gopal,
Business Advisor,
Middle East & Africa
Qatar has a strong determination to get ahead of the pack, backed by enormous gas reserves that are able to
fund this ambition. The unspoken competitor it wants to beat is the United Arab Emirates - mainly Dubai. In
practice, this means if Dubai has various American universities set up campuses, Doha isn’t far behind, or if
Dubai has its metro then Qatar will have a cross country railway.
But what gets in the way of Qatar’s growth is its very conservative outlook and governance. I remember
overhearing Anand Mahindra, the Vice Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, at a dinner event a few years
ago saying that for any business person or executive to come to a country and do business, the night life is
one of the key considerations that no one will articulate, but is a strong factor. Qatar falls short here: alcohol
is still taboo and restricted, and likewise women visitors may face some limitations, although not as many as
Saudi Arabia.
It is not a breeze to walk in and set up your company in Qatar (like it is in Dubai), or at least not yet. You
need to have a local partner who has to own over 50% stake in the company that you set up. This means that
not only do you need to budget for either an annual partner fee or a share in the profits, but it also holds the
lurking fear of the partner turning rogue at a future date. Overall, I would place Qatar in the center on a GCC
scale of ease of doing business, where Saudi is at one end and UAE (Dubai) is at the other.
On the positive side, there is a lot of money in the system and I see opportunities in e-governance,
e-commerce, mobile apps, payments and gaming. With the 2020 FIFA underway, I am hoping that the
government may find a way to work around the “night life” angle as well as on the “ease of doing business”
front. I hope this happens sooner rather than later so that investors and businessmen can really see the
opportunity in Qatar.
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16. CONCLUSION
It is nearly impossible to truly predict which countries will be the most successful this year, or the next. But our
poll aims to give an indicator of where IT professionals feel they would hedge their bets, given the choice. Many
different factors influenced their decision; political landscape, population boom, economic strength, but there did
seem to be a clear message: our research seems to suggest that the BRICS are no longer the countries professionals
turn to - instead they are heading to the APAC region.
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