Application of the IoT has become a foundation for businesses to enhance productivity and adopt smart manufacturing. The IoT has proven highly effective in reducing downtime, monitoring quality, improving energy efficiency, enabling predictive maintenance, and better understanding customers’ needs. The Asia-Pacific region has adopted the IoT progressively. A Microsoft survey in 2021 reported that businesses […]

Efforts to achieve socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable development are progressing. Agrifood-sector stakeholders are actively contributing by improving productivity, protecting natural resources, and minimizing the environmental impacts of farming and agribusiness operations as seen from their sustainability assessment performance that covers environmental integrity, economic resilience, social well-being, and good governance from production to processing and […]

The public sector is undergoing rapid digital transformation to improve its engagement with citizens, deliver better public services, cut costs, and help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has underscored the importance of digital technologies in building economic and social resilience through strategic, agile, innovative approaches and sped up the digital transformation process of […]