MPAC 2025 aims to enhance co-ordination among
different stakeholders in this area and provide
further support on the detailed approach that
could be adopted by the Working Committee
on Financial Inclusion (WC-FINC) and Working
Committee on Payment Systems and Settlement
(WC-PSS).
Initiative 6: Establish an ASEAN Open Data
Network.
for the portal include establishing functionality
on business networking— enabling MSMEs to
connect and do business with technology vendors
across the region— and including more materials
on maximising the benefits of digital adoption by
drawing on the work of existing business councils
and private sector players.
Initiative 5: Develop the ASEAN Digital Financial
Inclusion Framework.
This initiative aims to promote financial inclusion
by delivering financial products and services to a
wider community that is currently under-served,
including MSMEs. It also seeks to promote the
ASEAN ICT Master Plan 2020, which, among
others, seeks to raise awareness of digital trade
and use of electronic payment among businesses
so that they can better transact with suppliers and
customers, including online consumer protection.
Strategic Objective
Lower supply chain costs in each ASEAN Member
State
Improve speed and reliability of supply chains in
each ASEAN Member State
This initiative builds on the ASEAN ICT Master
Plan 2020, which has identified a number of
potential actions for supporting open data and
big data development from different sources,
including awareness building and education in
standards, usage, and development especially
ICT infrastructure to support the statistical
analysis. Proposed actions include: establishing
a forum or platform for the private sector to
share developments and activities in big-data
management and analysis; developing guides for
standardising the type and standards for machine-
readable open data; and supporting open data
development through hosting of competitions
where innovative uses and application of
open Government data are encouraged (e.g. a
hackathon). MPAC 2025 will support the ASEAN
ICT Master Plan 2020 to achieve its objective
of open data by expanding the impact beyond
the private sector to Government, as well as by
enhancing cross-sectoral co-ordination between
TELSOM and other ASEAN Sectoral Bodies.
Initiative 7: Establish an ASEAN Digital Data
Governance Framework.
This initiative aims to support The ASEAN ICT
Master Plan 2020, which calls for creating a
coherent and comprehensive framework for
personal data protection, by enhancing co-
Key Initiative
Strengthen ASEAN competitiveness trade
enhanced trade routes and logistics
Enhance supply chain efficiency through addressing
key chokepoints
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