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Volume 09 Issue 1
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As COVID-19 infection rates stabilise throughout the world, countries have already begun to prepare for life beyond the pandemic. In this issue, leading academics and seasoned practitioners walk us through the challenges that lay before us, giving us insights into issues from public health and regulations revolving around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation, to challenges faced in implementing digital transformation and their implications for lives, livelihood, and society as we tread gingerly into the post-COVID-19 world.

As COVID-19 infection rates stabilise throughout the world, countries have already begun to prepare for life beyond the pandemic. In this issue, leading academics and seasoned practitioners walk us through the challenges that lay before us, giving us insights into issues from public health and regulations revolving around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation, to challenges faced in implementing digital transformation and their implications for lives, livelihood, and society as we tread gingerly into the post-COVID-19 world.

An interview with Eddy Kusnadi Sariaatmadja, Founder and President Commissioner of Indonesia’s PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi.

Three recommendations for building system resilience.

Lin Fengru, co-founder of TurtleTree, speaks about her entrepreneurial journey in the biotech space.

A game changer in the EV industry?

Its changing face and evolution.

It’s all math. Really.

Three domain-focused prescriptions.

Overcoming challenges to bring clean water to rural India.The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 emphasises the need for access to clean drinking water. Unfortunately, across the world, one in three people does not have access to safe drinking water; this is especially prominent in emerging economies.1 Research shows that by 2025, 1.8 billion people would be living in countries or regions with absolute drinking water scarcity.2

Opportunities and challenges for the sector.

The Achilles’ heel of digital transformation.

Capitalising on the COVID-driven digitalisation phenomenon.
Thailand-based QueQ CEO Rungsun Promprasith, or Khun Joh as he is commonly known, had to act fast when COVID-19 struck in 2020. The value proposition of his firm, which was centred on providing a mobile app for bookings and queue management, had suddenly become non-viable. With customers home-bound and only stepping out for essential services, demand for the app dried up as hardly anyone was placing restaurant reservations or fixing medical appointments.

A white space for digital banks.