Current status
- Asia's initial response to COVID was partly enables by tech. The technological capabilities have been developed and deep-dived for decades and ready to use. This based on the large scale of global growth and investment in tech startups/ R7Ds.
- The potential for leapfrog is more to come, but facing too much of tariffs and data flow barriers. -> A gap to overcome.
How Asia's ecomony thrives through tech
- speed
- collaboration
- resiliences
Asia’s strengths, particularly in digital and mobile technologies, played an important role in the region’s early response to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in spring 2020.
- application for covid-infected notice
- application for data-tracking
- testing kit
