The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is reshaping economies and societies around the globe. The opportunities arising from its evolution in ASEAN are limitless. The 4IR offers people the opportunity to grow better connected, helps economies grow and become more competitive, empowers ASEAN’s citizens and improves their livelihoods through digitalising the provision of basic social services, and helps society decarbonise to meet sustainable development challenges confronting the region. Turning these opportunities into reality requires that stakeholders work to develop and implement coordinated initiatives to embrace fully the 4IR while addressing potential risks that might arise. Leveraging the 4IR’s technological advances and building on existing initiatives across the region,
the Consolidated Strategy on the 4IR for ASEAN aims to provide policy guidance in building the ASEAN Digital Community across the three Pillars of ASEAN: the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASSC).
This Consolidated Strategy on the 4IR for ASEAN identifies three focus areas, namely Technological Governance and Security; Digital Economy and Digital Transformation of Society. To operationalise the key focus areas, the Strategy proposes three immediate, medium-term, and longer-term priorities for cooperation.
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