ASEAN: Adoption of ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025

On 22 January 2021, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted the “ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025” (ADM 2025). The ADM 2025 will guide digital cooperation between ASEAN members over the next five years in order to position ASEAN as a leading digital community and economic bloc powered by secure and transformative digital services, technologies and ecosystems. For this purpose, the ADM 2025 has set the following desired outcomes: ASEAN’s recovery from the pandemic through digital services, improve the quality and coverage of fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure, enhance trusted digital services and the prevention of consumer harm, create a sustainable competitive market for the supply of digital services, increase in the quality and use of e-government services, digital services to connect business and to facilitate cross-border trade, increased capability for business and people to participate in the digital economy and a digitally inclusive society in ASEAN.