 Welcome back to Geneva and WISIS Forum 2022, and with me is Jonathan Chen. Jonathan is the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN for Singapore. Welcome, and congratulations on your prize in the data management category. Can you tell me all about it? Thanks so much, Sam. I'm personally delighted to be here and I must say that Singapore is extremely honoured to receive this prestigious award on behalf of ASEAN member states. I think this is especially since the WISIS Prize is a very important process towards recognising global efforts that contribute to sustainable and inclusive development of ICTs. And I think this is very relevant because we are seeing a world that is increasingly digitised, and I think more than ever it is necessary to ensure that the benefits of digital economy are enjoyed by the broadest number of people possible. I think key to this really is enhancing regional and international cooperation, the opportunity to learn from good examples, exchange best practices, and I think this is really what the WISIS Prize encapsulates. So, today I was hoping to share a bit more about ASEAN's digital context. Yes, please do. And also the background behind the ASEAN data management framework and the model contractual clauses, it's a bit of a mouthful. What specific sustainable development goals were you seeking to address with the project? Or what range of goals? Presumably there were quite a lot of work there, quite a lot of ambitions for your project. There were quite a lot of ambitions but I think really just to set the context. When you're talking about ASEAN, which Singapore finds itself at the heart of, it's really a region with immense potential. We are talking about 650 million strong market and 3.2 trillion regional GDP, which makes us currently the fifth largest global market and I think by 2030, we are on track to be the fourth. And on top of that, I think 61% of our population is currently under the age of 35 and they really embrace digital technology. So, if you drill down a little more to specifically digital economy, I think that the prognosis is also very positive. During COVID-19, we onboarded 60 million new internet consumers, making us the third largest internet base with 400 million internet users. And on top of that, our digital economy is expected to hit 1 trillion in terms of regional GDP by 2030. So, there is recognition amongst the ASEAN member states that it's really key to come together and focus on digital cooperation and that's precisely why we are also looking at commencing negotiations on a ASEAN digital economy framework agreement by 2025. And I think if you drill down a little more, there is great awareness that data is a core building block of the digital economy. The key really is to unlock its potential. But I don't think that this is easy because for data to have value, it has to be transformed into insights, applications or services and this is typically found within individual companies. And so, if you're talking about a data-driven economy, the challenge here really is creating that ecosystem, the network that allows the access and process of high-quality data. And the challenge here really is that it's typically located in different organizations and across borders. So, one, there is a need to better use data so that companies are able to make smart decisions and scale up both domestically and internationally. But I think more critically, there is a need to ensure that these companies have the capabilities to manage, process and transfer data across borders safely. And I think it's really key for the ASEAN region because 95 to 99 percent of our SMEs are data-driven and they form more than half of our economy. So, what really the DMF, the Data Management Framework and the MCCs do is provide a very simple toolkit, easily implementable toolkit that allows companies to create a governance framework. To manage personal data and also include terms and conditions in their agreements that allows the safe and legitimate transfer of data across borders. So, there's a lot of potential in these initiatives and they're also part of our digital framework goal for 2025. And as I mentioned earlier, they're a later foundation for our digital economy framework agreement. There's such interesting insights and impressive statistics and congratulations on the recognition for your projects. Jonathan Chen, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much.