LEVERAGING ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES

Jian Min Sim President (ASEAN) The Kairos Society

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

Founded in 2008, the Kairos Society is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in the US.

Solving Challenges in Today’s World

INNOVATORS + ENTREPRENEURS

BACKGROUND

To date, we are based in 37 different regions across 5 continents, with 1200 fellows focusing on healthcare, education and clean tech sectors

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

Ecosystem of innovators, entrepreneurs and mentors

Purpose + Autonomy + Mastery

Win-Win among stakeholders

MOTIVATION

Crowdsourcing innovative ideas and community feedback Civic Innovations from utilizing public data Creation of new businesses

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

INNOVATION

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

SPECIFIC EXAMPLE #1

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

• 4 Data Scientists + 2 Engineers (Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Imperial, Cambridge)

Rethink Data

SMART CITIES Civic Innovation, Public Data to identify gaps in society

EDUCATION Citizen Science, Optimizing Learning

HEALTHCARE Clinical decision support, Predictive ability

SPECIFIC EXAMPLE #2

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

• Cloud-based Enterprise Mobile Solution • Improves productivity of companies • Applying Predictive Analytics to the sales and purchase function • Extension to government procurement? Enable cost savings and transparency

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SPECIFIC EXAMPLE #3

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

• Education Technology Solution for the students • Educational e-content creation • Harnessing AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language processing to craft concept maps and questions

BRIDGING THE GAP

Tapping on Kairos Society’s Entrepreneurial Resources

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

ICT DEVELOPMENT

PLANS

Scientists/ Researchers Startups Students

Established Industry Mentors Investors

IMPLEMENTATION OF

ICTD INVESTMENTS

Kairos Society

GAP Infrastructure, technical

expertise, etc.

SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF COLLABORATION

NxtMind - Big Data Collaboration

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

Conceptualization (all stakeholders)

Pre-feasibility report (scoping: identification

of applications, framework, resources,

etc.)

Framing the technical

specifications document

Evaluation of proposal & technical

specifications

Framework for data sharing among

stakeholders (Data security, setting up Data

Exchange Platform)

Project Milestones

(Handing over or systems

integration)

OTHER COLLABORATION APPROACHES

Co-organizing Innovation Challenges and Programmes • Crowdsourcing ideas/solutions • Testing our startups’ innovative products • Strategy to grow your local pool of entrepreneurial talents (toolkit – setting up local branches) • Accelerating the growth of local ICT products

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

PREVIOUS PARTNERSHIPS

CHALLENGES • Kairos-Cisco Innovation Challenge: Building Collaboration Tools of the Future • Bloomberg Enterprise Tech Summit’s Pitch Roulette

CONFERENCES/ SUMMIT • World Foresight Forum (Den Haag), St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Eastern Europen Summit, Ambrosetti Forum (Italy), Alibaba (2010), Mobile World Congress (Spain), Tech-in-Asia (Singapore)

ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

Bill Gates Sr. Carl Schramm Ellen Kullman

Mark Rockefeller Miguel Forbes

Peter Diamandis Richard Saul Wurran

Sander Noordende

OUR GLOBAL MENTORS / PARTNERS

MENTORS*

PARTNERS

Co-chair Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Former President, Kauffman Foundation CEO, DuPont Rockefeller Consulting President, Forbes Licensing Chairman, X-Prize Foundation Founder, TED CEO, Accenture Consulting

*Not an exclusive list of mentors ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-

Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)

LEVERAGING ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES

Contact us: jian.sim@kairossociety.org

Tel: +65 9150 8236 ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-

Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)