How is Indonesia responding towards growing pressures of East Asia financial regionalism? Why are Indonesian teachers resisting information and communication technology? In a more digitally connected Indonesia, why are large proportion of young adults in greater Jakarta still feeling disenfranchised? These are just some of the questions being tackled by Indonesia’s new voices – early…
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How science, research and innovation can drive economic growth and development.
Brazil’s Multi-Billion Dollar Education Industry: Shaping Futures, Changing Lives, and Minting Billionaires
Ricardo Geromel, Contributor Post co-written with Luke Barbara, an American entrepreneur based in São Paulo, Brazil. Brazil’s role as a global superpower is on an upward trajectory and the country will make numerous important contributions to the world in the 21st century. Many of these contributions will come from, and almost all will be connected to,…
Internet in Brazil: Key Hard Facts You Must Know
What is the current status of Brazil’s Startup scene? Is it still booming, or has it lost its momentum? There are credible people with strong opinions on both sides of the spectrum. Most optimists, like Indian-American tech entrepreneur and academic Vivek Wadhwa, predict that some Zuckerbergs will emerge from the slums of Sao Paulo before the end of this…
Critical success factors for transnational partnerships
Commentary was recently published in the University World News. By Eugene Sebastian and Abid Khan 25 October 2013 – Issue No:293 Partnership between leading institutions will be absolutely crucial to innovation and success in tackling major issues in a changing world. A small number of critical factors affect the long-term success of collaborations: the depth…
Future of Asian cyberspace: Mobile, social, young
By Ayee Macaraig “Asia will become the largest market for some of the biggest social media campaigns in the world.” Business and technology industry leaders hailed the potential of Internet use in Asia, citing the uptake of social media in the continent. The recently concluded United Nations’ 8th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held here drew global focus…
Innovation: new engine for China’s development
By ZHOU TIANYONG AT a group study session of the central leadership in September, Party leader Xi Jinping stressed that the implementation of the strategy of innovation-driven development will decide the future of the Chinese nation. He urged the Party and society to grasp the trend of global science and technological innovation and seize the…
Editorial: Indonesia Needs to Invest in Research
By Jakarta Globe on 12:48 pm October 25, 2013. As Indonesia’s economy matures and moves higher up the value chain, it will no longer be able to rely on its rich natural resources and robust domestic consumption. If the country wants to realize its ambition of being a top 10 global economy by 2050, it will have…
Singapore’s science and technology sector to get a boost
Singapore’s science and technology sector is set to get a big boost — with three new programmes and funding of some S$330 million. SINGAPORE: Singapore’s science and technology sector is set to get a big boost — with three new programmes and funding of some S$330 million. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also…
Why China is not an innovation powerhouse?
By Guy de Jonquières, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Guy de Jonquières is a senior fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy. This article is based on his recently published paper, Who’s Afraid of China’s High-Tech Challenge? Some of the sheen may be wearing off China’s miracle growth story as it faces a growing array of economic…
Brazil: Investing in youth
Brazil’s strong economic growth has helped cut the youth unemployment rate over the past decade to levels below those of most OECD countries. Increased investment in education and vocational training is also helping young people get a foot in the jobs market, according to a new OECD report. “Investing in Youth: Brazil”, analyses the youth labour…
Lives in limbo: Migration experiences in Australia’s education–migration nexus
Like many OECD countries, Australia has, over the last 15 years, experimented with ‘the education–migration nexus’: policy frameworks that create pathways for international students to become skilled migrants. This article draws on student-migrant narratives to highlight some key aspects of migrant experience within the education–migration nexus, most notably extended periods of temporary status and the…
Monash’s new campus in China
Words: Eugene Sebastian New campus will leverage China’s R&D boom and its enormous talent. This week Australia’s Monash University and China’s Southeast University (SEU) will formally launch its new joint campus in the burgeoning Suzhou Industrial Park near Shanghai. Supported by Central and Provincial Governments and located in one of the major innovation precincts in…
Factories of the future
Words: Brad Collis The next industrial revolution is well underway at a new research precinct that draws together advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential to change our world. A three-dimensional rampart of titanium sand rises, mesmerisingly, like a grey beach sculpture on a rotating plinth. The fine grains of alloy are being placed and fused…
One voice?
Words: Eugene Sebastian ASEAN needs to play a more significant role in regional and global affairs. ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) is a group of smaller and medium-sized states that is disparate, with very different levels of development and diversity of political views. What the regional grouping tends to do well more often…
A Pacific Century, Not Asian Century?
Words: Eugene Sebastian 21st century is not and will not belong to Asia alone according to experts. The town of Locke is about 140 kilometres northeast of San Francisco. It’s the last surviving rural Chinatown in America. California’s ties with China go back to the gold rush of the mid-nineteenth century where large number of…
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