Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) @ConnecTechAsia Show News - Day 2

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Day 2
26 June 2018
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018 • Suntec Singapore
Disruptive technologies pose
challenges & possibilities
BY SHIRISH NADKARNI
[The advent of disruptive technologies] has
created many new possibilities for our people,
our business and our economies. The challenge
is to navigate this new digital terrain successfully
for mutual benefit.”
— S Iswaran,
Singapore’s Minister of Communications and Information
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“The advent of disruptive technol-
ogies has revolutionised the global
economy, altered industries and
business models, and changed the
nature of jobs. However, it has also
created many new possibilities for
our people, our business and our
economies.
“The challenge is to navigate this
new digital terrain successfully for
mutual benefit.”
This was the main thrust of the
speech delivered by S Iswaran, Min-
ister of Communications and Infor-
mation, at the opening ceremony of
ConnecTechAsia2018 at the Marina
Bay Sands on Tuesday morning.
The minister pointed out that
South-east Asia had a growing mid-
dle class and a population of 630
million people, more than half of
whom were under the age of 30 and
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The Netflix juggernaut is showing
no signs of slowing down. The
video- on-demand (VoD) streaming
service’s CFO, David Wells, recently
announced that the company will be
spending upwards of US$8 billion on
content this year. In the process, that
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