Technology in a Globalizing World – serie
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Technology and Progress in Southeast Asia: Innovations, Challenges, and Regional Dynamics in the Digital Age
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
1 109 kr
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Southeast Asia has over 460 million people online. With 125,000 new users joining the internet every single day, the region is poised to become a global digital powerhouse. Popular ride-hailing apps and bustling e-commerce platforms have mushroomed from Singapore to Myanmar, signaling immense opportunity. Yet these rapid digital advancements also bring pressing questions: Who is truly benefiting from this progress and who might be left behind? Are local societies adapting to a wave of innovation that has impacted everything from rural livelihoods to national politics? If yes, how? These are some of the questions at the heart of this book. The author examines how digital technologies are reshaping Southeast Asia’s socio-economic and political landscape, and how the region’s unique dynamics are influencing the path of technological advancement. Across seven chapters, the book covers a range of interlocking themes in the region’s digital transformation. It carefully delineates Southeast Asia’s distinctive local conditions – from demographic trends to development gaps – and explores how the region is charting its own path through innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. By pairing grounded case studies with policy analyses, the book attempts to portray a detailed picture of how opportunities and challenges intermingle on the road to a digital future.
Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration: Opportunities and Challenges
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 486 kr
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping governance at an unprecedented pace, transforming how governments make decisions, deliver services, and engage with citizens. Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration: Opportunities and Challenges offers a comprehensive exploration of AI’s potential and its complexities in the public sector. Drawing on contributions from 30 scholars across 25 chapters, the book examines AI’s diverse applications, from predictive analytics in policymaking and automation in citizen services to its role in smart cities, education, and workforce development. It addresses the ethical dilemmas, algorithmic biases, cybersecurity risks, and workforce implications that accompany this transformation, offering a balanced view of both innovation and regulation. Combining historical context, theoretical frameworks, case studies, and forward-looking strategies, this volume serves as an essential resource for policymakers, academics, and practitioners. It invites readers to critically engage with AI’s impact on governance and to envision public systems that are not only more efficient and innovative but also equitable, transparent, and resilient.