Reports
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...
Economic Regulation, Cost Methodologies and Tariff Regulation in the Asia Pacific Region
TRPC Director Professor John Ure’s presentation at the ITU Regional Economic and Financial Forum of Telecommunications/ICTs for Asia and Pacific,...
Tapping on the Digital Economy to Build Competitiveness and Resilience in Japan
In partnership with GLOCOM, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), and Keio International Center for the Internet & Society...
Global Government Cloud Initiatives
An overview of government cloud initiatives from select economies around the world. Government cloud computing-2015 from TRPC Pte Ltd Download...
Brave New World of Data?
“Octopus sold personal data of customers for HK$44”’ was the headline in the South China Morning Post, 27th July 2010....
Digital Thailand
TRPC Director Professor John Ure’s presentation at the ITU Forum on Digital Economy Thailand, held 22 August 2015 at the...
Keeping Internet open and free – Low Jia-Rong
Online users tend not to focus on issues related to governance on the Net because the Internet has not failed...
RoboShop
Welcome to Pepper. Pepper will be your close companion, enjoying your jokes, sympathizing when you are sad, keeping quiet when...
Technology and a Shrinking Middle Class?
No-one doubts that the rise of the middle class globally has fuelled the demand for consumer goods of all kinds;...
Kicking-off the Going Digital Workshops in Vietnam
On June 9th at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) offices in Hanoi, TRPC kick-started the first of...
Droning On, and On
From the postal stage coach to the telegraph, to the telephone, to the Internet it’s been a long haul, and...
Going Digital: The Status and Future Potential of Internet-Based Economies in Asia
Asia is in transition. Countries are moving from an Internet economy towards a fully “digital” one, relying upon IP-enabled networks...
Going Digital: The Status and Future Potential of Internet-Based Economies in Asia – A Report by TRPC
Download PDF (Full Report) View Infographic Overview Asia is in transition. Countries are moving from an Internet economy towards a fully...
TRPC Director on FT, 11 May 2015: “Agriculture secretary’s real concern is about American food exports”
May 11, 2015 12:10 am Sir, You report (“US criticises Brussels on global food security”, May 8) that the EU’s...
False Alarms
When in the 1990s I was researching the impact of technological change on the Hong Kong Telephone Company (HKTC) over...