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Southeast Asia Going Digital

CONNECTING SMEs

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Connecting SMEs

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Foreword

The digital transformation opens a range of opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It can encourage product and service innovation, improve their market intelligence, ease their access to talent, facilitate access to financing, and ultimately enhance their competitiveness in local and global markets. SMEs play a vital role in Southeast Asia (SEA) through their contribution to employment and inclusive growth. However, SMEs face significant barriers related to access and use of digital technologies that prevent them from achieving their full potential. They are lagging behind in the digital transition.

For SMEs to go digital, a coherent approach is required. This includes initiatives to deploy infrastructure and promote effective adoption of digital services and application, as well as to foster innovation. With this in mind, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), working with countries and stakeholders in the region and leveraging its cross-cutting Going Digital initiative on digital transformation, developed this report, Southeast Asia Going Digital: Connecting SMEs.

The report examines opportunities related to the access to and use of digital services by SMEs in SEA, and aims to provide sound policy analysis to foster an enabling environment for the digital transformation to flourish. Most importantly, this report is designed to share good practices in the region that harness broadband-based services for increased productivity and social welfare and, ultimately, to promote regional integration.

The report was drafted by Lorrayne Porciuncula, Alexia Gonz?lez Fanfalone, Yuki Yokomori, Miki Naito and Jaeho Lee, from the OECD Secretariat, under the supervision of Sam Paltridge and Verena Weber, heading the Communication Infrastructures and Services Policy Unit within the Digital Economy Policy Division (DEP). The report was developed under the overall leadership of Andrew Wyckoff, Director of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI); Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director of STI; and Anne Carblanc, Head of DEP. Fr?d?ric Bourassa from the OECD Secretariat provided statistical support. Editorial and formatting work was undertaken by independent contractor Susan Sachs and Angela Gosmann from STI. Thanks also go to OECD's Global Relations Secretariat for broader support in engaging with SEA, in particular Max Bulakovskiy and Annie Norfolk Beadle.

Findings and recommendations were presented at the Policy Dialogue on Transforming SMEs in Southeast Asia, organised in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), on 31 October and 1 November 2018 in Bangkok (Thailand), and at the 10th Regional Policy Network (RPN) on SMEs organised with ASEAN Coordinating Committee for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ACCMSME) on 6 November 2018 in Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar).

The report benefited from comments received during and after the 2018 Policy Dialogue on Transforming SMEs in Southeast Asia from: Zolrimi Muhaimin, Manager of International Research and Cooperation, Darussalam Enterprise (Brunei Darussalam); Kean Sochenda, Chief of Commercial Law Bureau in the Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, and Samnang Sou, Vice Chief of Regulatory Office in the SMEs Department, Ministry of Industry & Handicraft (Cambodia); Riska Pujiati, Directorate of ASEAN Negotiation, Ministry of Trade, and Fiter Beresman Silaen, Head of Program and Planning Sub-division, Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs; Khemdeth Sihavong, Deputy Director General of the Department

SOUTHEAST ASIA GOING DIGITAL: CONNECTING SMEs ? OECD 2019

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