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The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill Singapore is set to introduce should be viewed as a first step in developing a suitable approach towards countering the threat of disinformation online. To ensure Singapore develops sufficient resilience, additional details and refinements are needed.

Technological breakthroughs and the interplay of a number of fields, including robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, neurotech, data analytics, blockchain, cloud technology, quantum computing, biotechnology, Internet of Things, virtual and augmented reality, and 3D printing, have ushered in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIRe). Three previous industrial revolutions have given mankind steam power, electricity, and electronics, respectively. The FIRe is expected to create a smarter, more connected world, which will affect all disciplines, economies, and industries, as well as challenge ideas about what it means to be human with the "fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres" (Schwab 2016). One of the biggest concerns foreseen in the era of technological advances is the impact of FiRE on employment as job automation may replace, complement, or completely make human labor obsolete and consequently increase inequalities. While estimates differ, what is clear is that new technologies are able to perform increasingly sophisticated functions.

Although relatively new to the information and communication technologies (ICT) field, Myanmar has made rapid progress in the technological domain in the past few years. This, coupled with the country's unique geographical location between South Asia and Southeast Asia makes Myanmar an increasingly vital intersection in China's Digital Silk Road.

ASEAN Vision 2040 is a vision of an ASEAN that steps boldly forward towards the year 2040 to transform the ASEAN Community and secure its position in the region and globally. The final report of ASEAN Vision 2040 would have been impossible without the support of 60 experts and specialists in the region (see Appendix). On behalf of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), I would like to thank the experts for sharing their perspectives during the various workshops, round table discussions, and ultimately through their insightful papers.

The debate over ethics and norms building in artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum in the US government and tech industry. Yet, while these institutions understand the need for ethics in AI, a myriad of barriers impede their ability to construct and execute on their ethical frameworks.

Innovation has attracted much attention among firms as well as researchers. First, firms allocate a huge amount of funds to R&D expenditure for their innovation in products and production processes because firms' long-run growth depends on innovation. Second, researchers have investigated diverse factors affecting firms' innovation in order to answer fundamental questions on sustainable innovation. As Schumpeter suggests in his seminal work, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1950), firm size plays an important role in firms' innovation. For example, large firms can easily realize innovation because they are more likely to possess many useful resources such as more skilled scientists and high-quality equipment than small firms. In this regard, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been used as one of the most preferable strategies for firm growth through innovation.

Cyber technology enables countries to act covertly. Furthermore, it is not always easy to identify who is behind a given attack. So, what leads countries that were victims of cyberattacks to reveal the incidents?

The recent SingHealth hack and the fake news phenomenon are likely harbingers of an emergent inflection point in contemporary war: CyWar. The aim of CyWar is to secure command of a State's "hard" and "soft" cyberspace. It behooves States to be ready to cope with the rising CyWar challenge.

How do we protect our critical information infrastructure from evolving threats? What steps do we need to take to prepare for future adversaries who are continually refining their methods? How can these steps be applied to the health sector?

The design of national innovation systems has attracted attention from scholars and policymakers. Firms, universities, and government organisations (including public research institutes) are defined as the three major players, and interactions between the players are considered the key to a successful national innovation system. However, public research institutes are relatively understudied compared to firms and universities, even though their contribution to national innovation is not trivial. This paper aims to understand the detailed processes and reveals practical information regarding the innovation process in public research institutes. Focusing on the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer) in Germany, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, this paper analyses and compares innovation processes of public research institutes with their patent data. Based on findings, this study further discusses issues for better management of public research institutes.

Southeast Asia provides a particularly interesting and important present-day case study on technology's utility as a catalyst for democratization. The relatively sudden and rapid spread of cellular devices in the region, where Asia's most tenuous democracies are concentrated, has conferred a significant amount of power to the masses at a time when still-nascent institutions are weak. While more and more people are taking to social media, especially Facebook, to propagate their views, there are few mediating influences over the growing cacophony of voices, giving rise to an increasingly rancorous political climate. Absent a strong education system, well-developed legal framework, and robust, independent media, unbridled rumors and falsehoods threaten to undermine civil discourse as they spread through the burgeoning social media landscape. This situation presents an opportunity for domestic and foreign actors alike who seek to leverage the discord to pursue ends that may stymie, or even reverse, progress toward consolidating democratic gains.

International audience ; This book "AEC 2015: A model for Asia-wide regional integration?" brings together scholars and researchers who have been studying ASEAN from close by or from a distance to provide their assessment of the AEC process and progress from a perspective of wider regional integration. While it was not possible to obtain a contribution for every aspect of the AEC process, we have tried to cover most important areas or those that are most relevant for the rest of Asia and globally either in terms of impacts or in terms of valuable lessons and practices which could be leaned on by those who are pursuing any type of regional integration. In what follows we provide the brief summary of the chapters. As AEC pillars themselves are not perfectly balanced in terms of areas they cover and policies they refer to in the blueprint, while not being fully independent of each other, this book is also slightly asymmetric with a bit more focus on pillars 1, 3 and 4. Chapters, however, often provide opportunity to a reader to make connections between the pillars and also over time of integration process. The summary of chapters is provided below under the headings of three parts of the book for ease of reference.

International audience ; This book "AEC 2015: A model for Asia-wide regional integration?" brings together scholars and researchers who have been studying ASEAN from close by or from a distance to provide their assessment of the AEC process and progress from a perspective of wider regional integration. While it was not possible to obtain a contribution for every aspect of the AEC process, we have tried to cover most important areas or those that are most relevant for the rest of Asia and globally either in terms of impacts or in terms of valuable lessons and practices which could be leaned on by those who are pursuing any type of regional integration. In what follows we provide the brief summary of the chapters. As AEC pillars themselves are not perfectly balanced in terms of areas they cover and policies they refer to in the blueprint, while not being fully independent of each other, this book is also slightly asymmetric with a bit more focus on pillars 1, 3 and 4. Chapters, however, often provide opportunity to a reader to make connections between the pillars and also over time of integration process. The summary of chapters is provided below under the headings of three parts of the book for ease of reference.