Asean needs to put pedal to metal on digital integration
Commonality needed in frameworks for data privacy, mobile payment, cyber security, SME banking
Annabeth Leow
Singapore
SOUTH-EAST Asia must pick up the pace on digital policy even as the region presses on with initiatives for trade and e-commerce in the Asean Economic Community (AEC) 2025 blueprint.
Arrangements around trade, logistics, e-commerce and payments were tackled at a gathering here of Asean economic ministers in late August.
