Reports
Measuring the Digital Economy
When the UK still had an automobile industry, there was a standard joke about the manufacture of the Morris Mini...
TFA 2020 Annual Report 2017
Prepared for TFA 2020 by AlphaBeta, 12 April 2017 Section 4: Jurisdictional approaches to deforestation-free production offer a significant opportunity...
Media Maketh Man?
What do Martin Luther, the sixteenth century monk who fermented the Reformation across Europe in the sixteenth century, Emmanuel Macron,...
Google Economic and Social Impact – New Zealand
Prepared for Google by AlphaBeta The digital economy has the potential to play a major part in spurring future productivity...
Time to Retreat?
Is nothing safe! From next month, Singapore’s civil servants will be disconnected from the Internet.[1] And then connected again using...
The Future of Malls?
As more people shop online, malls are suffering. Singapore’s mall occupancy rate reached its lowest in 10 years in Nov...
Connectivity, Innovation and Growth: Fostering an Open Internet in Asia
The Internet is rapidly becoming the most popular way people access and consume content, such as music, movies, TV shows,...
Connectivity, Innovation and Growth: Fostering an Open Internet in Asia – A Report by TRPC
Download PDF Overview The Internet is rapidly becoming the most popular way people access and consume content, such as music,...
A New Mercantilism?
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seem to have something in common, despite the showman image of the former and the...
Bring Back the Robots
“iPhone manufacturer Foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots: China’s iPhone factories are being automated.” So read...
A Connected Christmas?
Just this week I came across this fascinating pre-Christmas post on Yougotobejoking.com. “Get connected this Christmas. That’s the message coming...
Unthoughtful Emotions
The Financial Times, 5th November 2016, led its Life & Arts supplement with an interview with an American fascist of...
Valuing the SDG Prize in Food and Agriculture
Prepared by AlphaBeta for the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, October 2016 The food system to 2030 is faced with...
Going Up in Smoke
Smartphones are exploding into flames. This guy was fortunate. It burnt a hole in his pocket and the phone dropped...
Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle are driverless vehicles, vehicles that are basically robots. Singapore has stolen a lead by introducing the first test...
TRPC Managing Director Lim May-Ann interviewed on CNA, 5 Aug “Dispute resolution platform on cards for consumers in tussle with telcos”
Dispute resolution platform on cards for consumers in tussle with telcos SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) on...
Fishing or Phishing
Fishing or Phishing ‘We are living in interesting times’: so goes the cryptic Chinese observation, which is really a warning...
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything?
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything? Think of a Narcissus these days and the name Donald Trump is never far away. In...
GSMA ‘Advancing Digital Societies in Asia’
GSMA Press Release New GSMA Study Tracks Digital Society Progress in Asia New Report Highlights Role of Connectivity and Regulation...
Sex and the City and the Internet of Things
Sex sells. That is pretty well established and widely known. Sex sells for money and it sells products. The former...
If it’s broke, don’t fix it?
The Bangladesh Bank heist in March 2016 netted USD81 million when fake transfer requests were wired to the Federal Reserve...