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Power To The People – Creating Trust In Data With Collaborative Governance

YoungUpstarts

They must adopt a model of collaborative governance. The good news is that IT professionals have a blueprint from the companies that pioneered the use of the World Wide Web for collaborative data governance. Airbnb is another excellent example of collaborative governance in action. Just as Web 2.0 As the Web 2.0

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

In the context of governance, board directors and executives are the new targets of choice. The survey contains responses from 411 governance professionals across 11 countries in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. European boards were slightly lower at 41% and the Asia Pacific was 48%.

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[Malaysia] [Event] InfoSecurity World 2012 – Combating The Rapid Rise In Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Multiple high-profile attacks on organizations and governments around the world, including Malaysia, have grabbed international headlines due to their well-coordinated nature and the scale of the data breach. An Acknowledgement of Rising Security Threats in Asia. 2011 was a Watershed Year for Hacktivism.

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[Singapore] National Research Foundation Selects Six VC Firms To Administer S$120M Startup War Kitty

YoungUpstarts

“The six venture capital funds and fund managers selected have an excellent reputation of helping build the companies that they fund, and their successes will further strengthen our tech-startup ecosystem.” “In 2010 I traveled Asia, meeting over 80 startups from a dozen countries. .”

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia. I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. At various points his Special Forces career took him to countries in Southeast Asia where counterinsurgency was not just academics.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. If you want to buy artisan goods on Etsy, the marketplace helps you source goods and verify a degree of reputation.