Manuel Stagars Knihy

Focusing on the untapped potential of frontier economies like Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, the book highlights the opportunities for socially responsible investment in Southeast Asia. It discusses how responsible investment strategies can benefit various stakeholders, including governments and NGOs, by fostering inclusive development. The author emphasizes the importance of collaborative sustainable investment policies to meet the needs of marginalized communities while promoting sustainable growth in these emerging markets.

Focusing on the reliability of official statistical data in ASEAN, this book introduces a method to assess data quality through ten dimensions. It emphasizes the need for improved vocabulary to discuss data quality and its implications for users. The text presents tools for standardizing and monitoring statistical capacity, alongside analysis methods for various Southeast Asian countries. It concludes with insights on Open Data and the ASEAN Economic Community, highlighting both opportunities and challenges in enhancing data quality and capacity building in the region.

Focused on empowering university students, researchers, and educators, this book provides effective strategies for launching startups from academic settings. It emphasizes leveraging school programs, public grants, incubators, seed accelerators, and private partnerships globally. The guide equips readers with the necessary tools and insights to transform academic innovations into successful business ventures.

This book explores the power of greater openness, accountability, and transparency in digital information and government data for the nations of Southeast Asia. The author demonstrates that, although the term “open data” seems to be self-explanatory, it involves an evolving ecosystem of complex domains. Through empirical case studies, this book explains how governments in the ASEAN may harvest the benefits of open data to maximize their productivity, efficiency and innovation. The book also investigates how increasing digital divides in the population, boundaries to civil society, and shortfalls in civil and political rights threaten to arrest open data in early development, which may hamper post-2015 development agendas in the region. With robust open data policies and clear roadmaps, member states of the ASEAN can harvest the promising opportunities of open data in their particular developmental, institutional and legal settings. Governments, policy makers, entrepreneurs and academics will gain a clearer understanding of the factors that enable open data from this timely research.