Monthly Archives: September 2011

Cognitive Zero Mile: A Work Space of Mind in Healthcare Development

Keywords: Cognitive spaces; zero mile; urbanization; ethics; universal coverage; health communication Idea: Vulnerable people in Southeast Asia tend to have limited access to healthcare and proper services. For decades, the public investment in health systems that focused on the expansion …

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Healthcare is a huge and controversial sector. In general, trends in healthcare innovation have been focused on the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry. Advancements in high technology research pave the way for the future of healthcare, e.g. the pharmaceutical …

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Technology Sequence Analysis

Technology Sequence Analysis (TSA) is a method that involves the statistical combination of estimates of the time required to accomplish technological steps.  In general, TSA views the future as a series of interlocking, causal steps or decisions, or nodes, leading …

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Dr. Karndee Leopairote

Q: As an icon of Thailand’s new generation of academics and executives, what is your perspective on the next decade of human mobilization in the region? A: “Mobility of people around the region will for sure become more significant than …

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Southeast Asia: Contemporary Multi-National Nations

Keywords: Migration, rules and regulations; diasporas; Mainland Chinese Idea: It cannot be denied that temporary, long-term and permanent international migrations of people have become structural components of the development path of most countries in the world. However, migration and the …

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Unifying ASEAN and the Rise of the Sub Mekong Region: Revisiting Regional Foresight

Keywords: ASEAN Summit; social contract; Laos; Myanmar; 2020 Idea: In 2009, with a collective ambition to be an emerging world leader, ASEAN leaders at the ASEAN Summit in Thailand set a goal to achieve an EU-style ASEAN community by 2015. …

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ASEAN’s Relevance Amidst Changing Paradigms

Keywords: ASEAN community and identity; paradigm shifts; China and India; media Idea: Since its inception in the late 1960s, ASEAN has been able to move at its own pace, and it is quite an accomplishment that the cooperation now spans …

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Welcome to Issue 11 of TrendNovation – a monthly newsletter devoted to discussion of long-term social, technological and political trends in Southeast Asia. Issue 10 of TrendNovation contemplated diverse trends or movements which are already giving a new face to …

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The Next Generations of Foresight and Identities

Future tools are very dynamic. The five generations of foresight proposed by Georghiou in 2007 reflect a broadening direction of evolution of the foresight model from a purely technological oriented approach to a wider focus.[1] The fifth generation foresight takes …

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Mr. Vitaya Saeng-Aroon

Q: “Don’t care” is a description you use to explain identity formation among a sexually diverse community. What is the rationale behind this? “In the past, there were no public channels for people to express themselves. Now, things are totally …

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