ACI PERSPECTIVES

Asia Competitiveness Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Chart of the Week November 5, 2021: Growing size of digital economy in tertiary industry

November 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Summary: Digital economy has become increasingly prominent in China’s tertiary industry. Due to the pandemic, big data and internet have been put to full use in almost all sectors of the economy. The size of the digital economy in the service sector is found to be 40.7%, according to findings from the China Academy of […]

Palapa Ring Project: Indonesia’s Digitalization

October 22, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

Indonesia’s overarching goal to expand its basic digital infrastructure first emerged in the 1990s, through the idea of the Palapa Ring project. The project aimed to provide internet access to the entirety of the 34 provinces in the archipelagic nation and was completed recently in 2019. In 2014, the percentage of households in Indonesia with […]