Asia Region CTIP/Safe Migration Digital Tool Study

According to the ILO, Asia-Pacific is home to more than half of the world’s internet users and around two billion people in the region use internet daily through their mobile phones.1,2 Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet has become a vital part of daily life that offers new solutions to emerging and traditional challenges. In 2020 alone, 40 million people in Southeast Asia’s six largest economies (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam) became internet users for the first time. 3 The region’s internet economy exceeded 100 billion USD for the first time and is projected to triple to 300 billion USD by 2025.