The 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects produced by the Population Division of the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) states that 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68 percent by 2050.A populous city could mean an increase in vehicles on its roads.
Southeast Asia’s construction sector is looking at wide variations of growth in 2019, according to the latest International Construction Costs Report from Arcadis. The report found that the construction industries in the Philippines and Vietnam ranked third and fifth worldwide, respectively, for forecast annual real growth in value.
Due to Southeast Asia’s largely unbanked and underbanked populations, the region has a growing fintech ecosystem which provides innovative services such as loans and payment platforms.
Reverse mentoring was a concept popularised by Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (GE) in 1999. His pilot project involved the pairing of 500 senior and junior employees, where the latter would teach the former on the advances of technology.
Facebook's plan to hire professional journalists instead of relying solely on algorithms to deliver news is a positive step but is unlikely to shake up an embattled media industry, analysts say.The social media giant said Tuesday it would build a small team of journalists to select the top national news of the day "to ensure we're highlighting the right stories."It comes as the US media landscape is plagued by job losses and newspaper closures, with organizations trying to
Twitter and Facebook said Monday they had uncovered a campaign by China to use the social media platforms against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong."We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change," Twitter said in an online post.Facebook said a tip from Twitter led to the removal of pages, groups and accounts originating in China and involved in "c
YouTube advertisers should stop posting on channels that feature "toxic" anti-state content, a Vietnamese official said Tuesday at a meeting with major brands including Yamaha and Grab. The communist country has tightened its grip on online dissent as critics turn to social media to air grievances about the one-party state. A controversial cybersecurity law passed last year calls for global tech giants such as Google and Facebook to scrub "toxic" content
Digital nomads are a new breed of enterprising individuals who make their living while travelling the world. They are location-independent and use technology to perform their jobs. Technology has allowed for new forms of working environments to thrive, rendering formal workspaces a thing of the past.Professions that digital nomads usually take up are writing and blogging, web design, software development and the occasional photography.
Market research firm Canalys has named Indonesia as the fastest growing market for smartphones in Southeast Asia.
In January, inmates in Singapore’s correctional facilities were given tablets in hopes that this would work towards their rehabilitation.
Malaysia’s tech start-up community now has a home to call its own with the launch of the HLX on Thursday, an integrated innovation centre for start-ups to collaborate with corporates to get access, coaching, funding and mentoring in one space.Housed within Menara HLA, an office tower in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, the 250,000 square foot HLX is backed by Malaysian conglomerate Hong Leong Group and is a private-public partnership (PPP) with the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC).&
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore have been hailed as the driving force behind the island nation’s economy. The government there has pointed out that SMEs make up 99 percent of all enterprises in the country and employ as many as 65 percent of Singapore’s workforce.
