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LEVERAGING ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES Jian Min Sim President (ASEAN) The Kairos Society ICT for Development Initiative in Asia- Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)
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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: [email protected]
Tel: +65 9150 8236 ICT for Development Initiative in Asia-
Pacific Region (ICTD-ASP)
