Reports
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...
TRPC Director on FT, 1 Mar 2016: “Why can’t the ‘expert hackers’ write the code?”
Sir, If Apple can write code to bypass an iPhone password, but then fears that expert hackers will steal it,...
Leaders Today, Gone Tomorrow? CA Technologies APJ Application Economy Index 2016
The CA Technologies Asia Pacific & Japan Application Economy Index 2016 identifies the readiness of 10 APJ markets to thrive...
Upsetting the Applecart
Donald Trump called for a boycott, although only after he had “just thought of it.”[1] Bill Gates, initially at least,...
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Marvin Minsky died in January 2016. He was the outstanding forerunner of research and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in...
Ringing in the New Year
Here’s the thing about payphones: if by error you have left your mobile phone at home, making a call will...
Cyber Santa
Families who celebrate Christmas have long got use to Santa Claus arriving with his sack full of toys for the...
APEC E-payment Readiness Index: Ecosystem Assessment and Status Report
The APEC E-Payment Readiness Index: Ecosystem Assessment and Status report assesses the level of readiness and future potential of the...
Is Cybersecurity an Oxymoron?
Many years ago I lived in one of the less secure, less affluent parts of London. It was a neighbourhood...
Asia Pacific Big Data Objectives & Concerns 2015
An overview of Big Data objectives and concerns in 2015 in Asia Pacific. Asia Pacific Big Data Objectives & Concerns...
The Growth of E-commerce in Indonesia: Chaos or Innovation?
The third TRPC “Going Digital” forum series titled “Powering Indonesia’s Digital Economy” was held in partnership with the local e-commerce...
Migration: A Digital Road Ahead
“One Facebook group called ‘Stations of the forced wanderers’, which has more than 100,000 members, is essentially a vast knowledge...