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Open Data in Southeast Asia: Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks

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Particular opportunities and risks exist for open data in Southeast Asia. The high priority of challenges in the region—urbanization, climate change, food security—and ambitious projects, such as the ASEAN Economic Community and Sustainable Development Goals, provide an imperative and momentum for open data. At the same time, large digital divides in the population, boundaries to civil society, and shortfalls in civil and political rights threaten to arrest open data in early development. Governments, businesses, and universities risk foregoing knowledge they could have easily harvested, in the process failing to reach their economic and innovative potential.

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