Digital Platforms for Public Benefit is a research series produced by the Tech for Good Institute. It examines how commercial digital platforms and governments across Southeast Asia can work together to deliver public goods and services. The series documents collaboration models, identifies implementation challenges, and develops practical guidance for governments and policymakers in the region.

The first report was released in 2024. This second report examines how governments across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are structuring their partnerships with commercial platforms to strengthen policy implementation and deliver public benefit at speed and scale.

Our 2026 report is accompanied by a downloadable playbook titled, ‘The Government-Platform Collaboration Playbook: From Digitalisation to Platform-Enabled Governance’. It provides a structured implementation guide for government officials and policymakers that puts the report’s four-phase collaboration pathway into practice.

This policy brief explores how Southeast Asia can better support mid-career workers as artificial intelligence reshapes the region’s labour markets. Drawing on regional consultations across SEA-6 countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand), it highlights how mid-career workers face growing risks to job stability due to systemic barriers such as limited career navigation support, financial constraints, and slow-moving skills frameworks. To address these challenges, resilience must be built at the ecosystem level through coordinated reforms including stronger career health systems, robust transition support, and more future-oriented workforce planning.

This policy brief examines how Southeast Asia’s young workforce is being reshaped by rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Drawing on regional consultations across SEA-6 countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand), it highlights mismatches between education systems and labour market needs, as well as barriers to mobility and resilient employment. The brief proposes a set of policy recommendations to better support young workers. These include reforming education systems, expanding opportunities in human-centric “HEAL” sectors, and strengthening regional labour mobility and social protection frameworks so that AI-driven transformation can lead to increased resiliency for the young workforce.