Startups tapped to rescue disaster-prone ASEAN region

From crowdfunding platforms to drones, chatbots, and artificial intelligence, emerging startups in ASEAN are leveraging on their existing technologies and business models to solve the region’s most urgent problems through a competition called “Startups to the Resque.”

[…] According to the 2016 World Risk Index by the United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security, 4 of the 10 ASEAN member-states, namely Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, and Vietnam, are at a very high risk and high vulnerability. …

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Joie Cruz