Appendix 2: Catalog of Digital Solutions in the Lower Mekong Region

The Catalog of Digital Solutions in the Lower Mekong Region is a curated list of existing digital solutions to demonstrate how these technologies are deployed to address social, economic, political, and sustainability challenges in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. This tool was designed to complement the landscape research in this report.

The discoverability of good tech solutions remains a challenge—particularly solutions and products operating in low- and middle-income countries—even as interest in social entrepreneurship and digital public goods continues to grow. While not an exhaustive list of digital solutions in the region, this catalog should serve as a tool to help public interest technology practitioners identify, replicate, or iterate existing digital solutions to address systemic challenges. Technology included was identified through research, reports, interviews, and the registry of solutions verified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

Digital Solutions Measures

Digital solutions included in the catalog were evaluated to determine (where possible):

• Whether or not the digital solution is active
• Which country/region the digital solution operates or previously operated in
• Who operates the digital solution
• Whether the digital solution is open source
• Which of the following sectors the digital solution addresses:
  • Agriculture, Civic participation, Communications, Customs information management, E-commerce, Economic and financial inclusion, Education, Environmental monitoring and management, Healthcare, Infrastructure monitoring, Labor, Research
• Function or technology/type the digital solution utilizes:
  • App, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Data exchange, Data platform, Digital identity, Digital payments, Web platform

View the Catalog of Digital Solutions in the Lower Mekong Region here.

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Disclaimer: This catalog is neither an exhaustive list of digital solutions active in the region nor an endorsement of any particular solution by New America’s Digital Impact and Governance Initiative. The featured technologies were chosen to provide insight into the types of active digital solutions in the region and help demonstrate larger regional trends of digital technology development. They were assessed using publicly available information, as thoroughly as possible given the complications of regional and language barriers. This resource was published in November 2022 and is not regularly updated. While some supplemental readings are linked in the catalog, readers of this resource are encouraged to pursue additional due diligence measures.