Zuckerberg told reporters on a conference call that he accepted responsibility for the hijacking of private user data and other abuses, but when asked if he remained the best person to lead Facebook, he answered “Yes.”

“I think life is about learning from the mistakes and figuring out how to move forward,” he said.

“When you’re building something like Facebook which is unprecedented in the world, there are things that you’re going to mess up. What I think people should hold us accountable for is if we are learning from our mistakes.”

Facebook’s estimate was far higher than news reports suggesting 50 million users may have been affected in the privacy scandal which has roiled the company and sparked questions for the entire internet sector on data protection.

Zuckerberg told reporters on a conference call he accepted responsibility for the failure to protect user data but maintained that he was still the best person to lead the network of two billion users.

“I think life is about learning from the mistakes and figuring out how to move forward,” he said in response to a question on his ability to lead the company.

“When you’re building something like Facebook which is unprecedented in the world, there are things that you’re going to mess up… What I think people should hold us accountable for is if we are learning from our mistakes.”

Zuckerberg said 87 million was a high estimate of those affected by the breach, based on the maximum number of connections to users who downloaded an academic researcher’s quiz that scooped up personal profiles.

“I’m quite confident it will not be more than 87 million, it could well be less,” he said.

To remedy the problem, Zuckerberg said Facebook must “rethink our relationship with people across everything we do” and that it will take a number of years to regain user trust.

The new estimate came as Facebook unveiled clearer terms of service to enable users to better understand data sharing, and as a congressional panel said Zuckerberg would appear next week to address privacy issues.

Facebook has been scrambling for weeks in the face of the disclosures on hijacking of private data by the consulting group working for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

The British firm responded to the Facebook announcement by repeating its claim that it did not use data from the social network in the 2016 election.

“Cambridge Analytica did not use GSR (Global Science Research) Facebook data or any derivatives of this data in the US presidential election,” the company said in a tweet. “Cambridge Analytica licensed data from GSR for 30 million individuals, not 87 million.”

Zuckerberg on the Hill

Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer meanwhile said new privacy tools for users of the huge social network would be in place by next Monday.

“People will also be able to remove apps that they no longer want. As part of this process we will also tell people if their information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” he said in a statement.

Schroepfer’s post was the first to cite the figure of 87 million while noting that most of those affected were in the United States.

Facebook also said its new terms of service would provide clearer information on how data is collected and shared without giving the social network additional rights.

Earlier Wednesday, the House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee announced what appeared to be the first congressional appearance by Zuckerberg since the scandal broke.

The April 11 hearing will “be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online,” said the committee’s Republican chairman Greg Walden and ranking Democrat Frank Pallone in a statement.

The Facebook co-founder is also invited to other hearings amid a broad probe on both sides of the Atlantic.

Deleting Russian ‘trolls’

Zuckerberg told the conference call he was committed to ensuring that Facebook and its partners do a better job of protecting user data, and that it must take a more serious approach after years of being “idealistic” about how the platform is used.

“We didn’t take a broad enough view on what our responsibility is, and that was a huge mistake. It was my mistake.”

He said that while “there are billions of people who love the service,” there is also a potential for abuse and manipulation.

“It’s not enough just to give people a voice,” he said. “We have to make sure people don’t use that voice to hurt people or spread disinformation.”

Late Tuesday, Facebook said it deleted dozens of accounts linked to a Russian-sponsored internet unit which has been accused of spreading propaganda and other divisive content in the United States and elsewhere.

The social networking giant said it revoked the accounts of 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts, and removed 138 Facebook pages controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA).

The agency has been called a “troll farm” due to its deceptive post aimed at sowing discord and propagating misinformation.

The unit “has repeatedly used complex networks of inauthentic accounts to deceive and manipulate people who use Facebook, including before, during and after the 2016 US presidential elections,” said a statement Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos.

Among its top findings, the new research study, Cybersecurity: Perceptions & Practices, found that less than half of all organizations were able to detect a major cybersecurity incident within one hour. Even more concerning, less than one-third said that even if they detected a major incident, they would be unable to contain it within an hour, the firm said in a press statement.

The study, conducted by Widmeyer, which surveyed 751 IT decision makers from the U.S., U.K. and Asia/Pacific, also revealed that a majority of organizations are only moderately confident in their ability to protect their companies against hackers.

“Cyber threats continue to grow in volume and intensity. Seemingly every month, another massive security breach dominates the headlines,” said Joanne Wong, Senior Regional Director for Asia Pacific & Japan at LogRhythm. “To combat these threats, organizations need to carefully plan their budgets and strategies, while developing effective programs that tackle specific threats and keep them one step ahead of cyberattackers.”

Many companies are focused on growing their security maturity, and team size is an important indicator. The survey revealed that, on average, companies employ 12 cybersecurity professionals in their organization. However, more than half of the respondents said that they employ 10 or fewer professionals on their teams.

Special threat detection programs are another indicator of security maturity. This study found that most decision makers—more than 70 percent of respondents—have programs in place to detect specific threats, such as ransomware, insider or employee threats, and denial of service attacks. The vast majority of IT decision makers—95 percent—also use security software to prevent and react to threats. And more than a quarter deploy at least 10 security software solutions to manage security threats.

When it comes to confidence levels, about half of security decision makers believe that a determined hacker can still breach their organization. In fact, over one-third reported that their company has experienced a breach in the past year—ranging from 29 percent in the United States to 39 percent in the Asia-Pacific region.

When specifically asked about level of confidence, these decision makers revealed that they have only moderately positive confidence in their cybersecurity measures and abilities—suggesting an attitude that is more hopeful than truly confident.

Similarly, most IT executives—over 60 percent—are only somewhat confident that their security software can detect all major breaches. Likewise, they are only moderately confident that they can protect their companies from hackers.

In addition, the level of confidence in one’s security is also swayed by other variables, such as the implementation of programs that target specific types of threats. For instance, decision makers who did not report having programs to protect against threats such as ransomware, insider threats, and service denial attacks are less confident in their security programs. Unsurprisingly, that same segment reported slower rates of detection, response, and containment.

There are many factors that enable a security team to quickly detect and respond to an incident, including technology, process, programs, and people. When it comes to technology, a strong majority (nearly 80 percent) of IT executives said that a platform for security management, analysis, and response is beneficial—though only about a third rate such a platform as very beneficial. This response may reinforce the notion that true security confidence cannot be created with technology alone.

When asked to consider how their organization is operating from a Threat Lifecycle Management perspective—as an approach that includes discovery, qualification, neutralization and recovery from cyberattacks—IT executives were not overly optimistic. About a third of all respondents reported that they need help at virtually all stages in the TLM framework, especially detecting, investigating, neutralizing, and recovering from cyberthreats.

Security organizations need adequate funding to effectively fight cybercrime. However, the study found that the percentage of resources allocated to cybersecurity from the overall IT budget is often on the low side. Overall, one-third of executives allocate 10 percent or less of their IT budget to security. Regionally, the U.S. had the lowest rate, and Asia-Pacific the highest.

When asked about their comfort level with security funding, 57% of IT executives indicated they are moderately comfortable with their companies’ level of security funding; however, nearly a quarter said they are not comfortable. From a regional perspective, executives in the United States were less likely to think the level of their security funding is appropriate.

Designed by ZBHA Group, a Chinese enterprise engaged in modern security services, the app embraces 16 types of overseas security services for Chinese in the United States, Australia, Cambodia, Israel and New Zealand.

The app, which is available for both Apple and Android phones, involves various functions. Students can reserve regular safety training and professional assistance at an airport, such as baggage claim, check in and pick up or drop off services, especially for those going abroad for the first time who are not familiar with foreign environments.

During students study abroad, the app can provide them with travel guidance and emergency assistance, and be equipped with GPS monitoring by the company to guarantee their safety.

Other services, like guidance at hospitals, luggage storage and legal consultations, also are available as needed.

While the app is free, the services provided are not.

“We hope Chinese students and their parents can enjoy their lives when studying or traveling in foreign countries and return safely to home in China,” said Kong Xianming, chief executive of ZBHA.

For years, China has been the largest source of international students in English-speaking countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia.

According to the Ministry of Education, the number of Chinese studying abroad in 2017 was over 608,000, an increase of 11.74 percent year-on-year.

As the number of students grows, safety has become a major concern.

In 2016, Chinese embassies and consulates handled more than 100,000 reports from students abroad who felt their security was threatened, almost triple that of the 36,800 in 2015, according to the 2017 Report on the Development of Chinese Students Studying Abroad.

Grim situations also occur, such as befell Zhang Yingying, 26, a visiting scholar from China at the University of Illinois, who was reported missing in June and is believed to have been abducted.

Such concerns include not only personal safety, but also psychological crisis and property security, said Han Xiaogang, Secretary General of China-US Association for Advanced Cultural Exchange.

“Assistance is vital, considering the sudden changes in their studies and living environments,” Han said.

Kuching International Airport (KIA) is going cashless now!

KIA collaborates with Malaysia Airports to launch Cashless in KIA digital platform. Kuching International Airport is the first airport in Malaysia to offer cashless service.

Customers only required to download vcash e-wallet app from DIGI onto their smartphones then they can use the cashless service in retail outlets at KIA.

Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd (MAHB) Managing Director Mohd Badlisham Ghazali said in his speech that with KIA launching the cashless service, it made KIA the first airport in the country to have cashless service.

He said as more international flights are landing at KIA, the company also realised the importance of online connectivity and decided to implement cashless service in KIA.

“We are very excited. The far-sighted Chief Minister of Sarawak launched the Sarawak Digital Economy Strategy handbook for 2018-2022 to drive the state into digital economy era. This is in line with the transformation that MAHB intends to embark on.”

MAHB works with Digi. Through the vcash e-wallent app, Sarawakians, local and foreign tourists are offered cashless facility.

The collaboration plan also covers high speed wireless network at KIA where air passengers are offered high speed internet network.

LG Electronics’ upcoming G7 smartphone is expected to adopt an advanced liquid crystal diode display panel, which is interpreted by industry officials as a move to launch more affordable premium phones with organic light-emitting diode display phones, according to news reports and leaks on Monday.

Dubbed by media and tech experts here as “G7,” LG’s new flagship model is predicted to be unveiled at the end of this month in Seoul, and released next month.

Ahead of its debut, some detailed information of parts and functions likely to be adopted for the new LG phone were leaked.

The G7 phone would adopt M+ LCD panels, named and manufactured by its affiliate LG Display, in which a pixel is comprised of red, green, blue and white to emit more light than normal LCD panels while consuming about 40 percent less power.

Some in the industry say the M+ LCD panels will help cut production costs of the premium phones, and raise price competitiveness against Apple and Samsung’s OLED phones.

According to a 360-degree video render image leaked by French tech expert Steve Hemmerstoffer on Sunday, the LG G7 is also being prepared to adopt a notch design on its screen, looking similar to Apple’s iPhone X.

The fingerprint scanner is placed below a dual camera module on the rear of the smartphone, the video showed.

On the left side of the device, a new button is added below the current volume button, which is assumed by some industry officials here to work as a switch for artificial intelligence functions, like Samsung’s Bixby button.

LG’s AI platform ThinQ that is operating on the latest V30S smartphones is highly likely to be added to the upcoming phone, some observers say.

“Any of the circulating rumors about the new phone are not confirmed yet, including the timing of the debut,” said an LG official.

In an unusual move, Spotify will list existing shares directly on the New York Stock Exchange rather than issuing new stock, allowing its founders and investors to maintain control and avoiding the cost of hiring Wall Street underwriters.

“Spotify is not raising capital, and our shareholders and employees have been free to buy and sell our stock for years,” 35-year-old chief executive and co-founder Daniel Ek said in a blog post Monday ahead of the listing of “SPOT” shares.

Ek said the move “puts us on a bigger stage,” but “doesn’t change who we are, what we are about, or how we operate.”

The Swedish platform which has helped make streaming the most popular way to listen to music in parts of the world estimated the company’s value to be as much as $23.4 billion.

Spotify said in a regulatory filing that it had 159 million monthly users including 71 million paying subscribers — twice that of closest rival Apple Music, which the iPhone maker launched in 2015 to win a slice of the growing streaming market.

Spotify warned last week that its sales growth was likely to slow this year, but that it still expected to post a narrower annual loss.

Spotify, which has not posted a profit since the service launched in 2008, said unfavorable exchange rates were the main reason for the growth slowdown.

The company also said it aimed to boost its subscriber numbers by 30 to 36 percent this year.

Cool and sticky

“Spotify is a ‘cool’ brand,” said eMarketer principal analyst Paul Verna.

“Teenagers especially love Spotify. This bodes well for continued brand loyalty, which is a big factor in the stickiness of music services.”

Users of streaming music services don’t like to rebuild playlists or profiles, making it likely they will stick with Spotify if given good value, according to the analyst.

While pressure is on to pay higher royalties to music creators, Spotify has made inroads with artists. Taylor Swift released a new “Delicate” music video on Spotify last month. The singer caused a stir in 2014 by pulling her music from the service over fees, but returned to the platform three years later.

Music sales soared anew last year in the United States backed by the rise of streaming, bringing revenue to a level last seen a decade ago.

“Spotify has been the driving force in nothing less than a turnaround in the US recorded music industry,” Verna said.

Spotify’s model of letting people stream songs on demand is proving more popular than paid downloads, curated playlists, or internet radio broadcasting, according to the analyst.

The Recording Industry Association of America said that revenue grew a robust 16.5 percent in 2017, marking the first time since 1999 at the dawn of online music that the business has expanded for two years in a row.

The growth was almost entirely attributable to the public’s embrace of streaming, with subscriptions to paid platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and the new service of retail giant Amazon growing 56 percent to 35.3 million users.

Streaming has been transforming the music business in much of the world, although artists frequently complain that they see little of the industry’s newfound bounty.

Timing trouble?

In 2006, Ek and co-founder Martin Lorentzon, who rode the internet boom to riches, came up with the idea of creating a legal platform to distribute music online, which at the time was dominated by illegal file sharing sites.

They experimented with sharing music files between the hard drives on their computers.

In October 2008 Spotify was finally ready to go live after Ek pleaded with music labels to open their catalogs.

Wall Street could go far in securing the Swedish startup’s status as a success story if the listing goes well.

But, the timing could hurt Spotify since tech stocks overall are being dragged down by worries about privacy and Facebook’s handling of people’s data.

“Spotify will be lumped in with other tech stocks, which have been battered lately because of Facebook’s data privacy issues,” Verna said.

“One could argue that this is unfair to Spotify, but they’re going to have to get used to market volatility and getting dragged down (or pushed up) by other companies in their general space.”

In perhaps a poetic turn, Facebook has been credited with playing into Spotify’s success.

In 2009, Spotify won the public backing of Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg, who posted: “Spotify is so good.”

In 2011, when Spotify launched service started in the United States, it allied with Facebook, quickly garnering one million paying users.

The Tiangong-1 “mostly” burnt up above the vast ocean’s central region at 8:15 am (0015 GMT), China’s Manned Space Engineering Office said, moments after predicting a slightly later re-entry over the Atlantic.

Space officials had stressed that the craft would not cause any earthly damage when it returned, with Chinese space officials saying its disintegration will offer a “splendid” show akin to a meteor shower.

Space officials had warned that knowing the exact location of the re-entry would not be possible until shortly before it happened, and China’s space agency had predicted it would be off Sao Paulo just moments before the Tiangong-1 made its actual return.

The European Space Agency had indicated earlier that the Tiangong-1 was likely to break up over water, which covers most of the planet’s surface.

It described the probability of someone being hit by a piece of debris from Tiangong-1 as “10 million times smaller than the yearly chance of being hit by lightning”.

Tiangong-1 — or “Heavenly Palace” — was placed in orbit in September 2011, an important step in China’s efforts towards building its own space station.

The module — which was used to practise complicated manual and automatic docking techniques — was originally intended to be used for just two years, but ended up serving considerably longer.

During its brief lifespan, it hosted Chinese astronauts on several occasions as they performed experiments and even taught a class that was broadcast into schools across the country.

– Out of control? –

Tiangong-1 had been slated for a controlled re-entry, but ceased functioning in March 2016. Space enthusiasts have been bracing for its return ever since.

The ESA has said that ground controllers were no longer able to command Tiangong-1 to fire its on-board engines, which could have been used to control where it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.

In contrast, Russia brought down its massive Mir space station through a controlled re-entry over the Pacific Ocean in 2001.

A Chinese spaceflight engineer denied earlier this year that the lab was out of control.

Chinese media have downplayed comments by the ESA and others that the country’s engineers have lost control of the lab, with reports saying that the idea it is “out of control” is an invention of foreign media.

But on Chinese social media, commenters criticised the government’s reluctance to own up to the situation.

“Can you or can’t you report that you’ve lost control of the situation?” one person wrote on the Twitter-like Weibo.

“It’s not unusual that something this complicated would have a mishap.”

Beijing began its manned spaceflight programme in 1990 after buying Russian technology that enabled it to become the third country with the ability to launch humans into space, following the former Soviet Union and the United States.

China sent another space lab, Tiangong-2, into orbit in September 2016 as a stepping stone to its goal of having a crewed space station by 2022.

It also plans to send a manned mission to the moon in the future.

The Korea Communications Commission confirmed Friday that it will embark on an investigation into the private data collection policies of Korea’s major social networks including Facebook, Instagram, KakaoTalk and Naver’s social networking service Band.

The move comes in response to media reports revealing that Facebook had been requesting access to user’s contacts, SMS data and call history on phones running on Android devices, when installing Facebook Messenger or Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of the main app.

Facebook explained that only users who gave permission were affected and that it did not collect the content of the texts and calls. Users who wished to turn off this feature could do so via settings.

The KCC plans to examine whether Facebook, or any other social network service operator, breached Korea’s Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection.

The call and text logging feature is just one of several privacy concerns and criticisms that Facebook has faced over the past few weeks.

It all began with the alarming revelation Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy working for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, to wrongfully harvest the profiles of some 50 million Facebook users without their permission for voter profiling.

The incident was met with public fury and prompted a series of investigations and hearings from authorities in the US, the UK, the European Union and Canada that would likely result in a hefty fine for the social network operator.

Some of Facebook’s major advertisers have begun to reconsider placing ads on the social network, while many disappointed users worldwide have jumped onto the #DeleteFacebook movement.

Korean users have also raised their feelings of mistrust towards Facebook, with some questioning privacy policies of other local internet firms like Naver and Kakao that also collect and handle massive user data.

The latest development is considered an anticipated crisis as tech companies around the world have been harvesting massive amounts of user data for years in the name of connectivity, escalating the risks of misappropriation and abuse.

The biggest issue has been with the “social log-in” feature where people can log into third-party websites and apps using their Naver or Kakao accounts, bypassing the cumbersome process of having to sign up for a new account on a new website.

Naver and Kakao stress that the information they share is not as extensive as that of Facebook. Naver provides only basic information including a user’s name, e-mail address, nickname, birthday, age and gender. Kakao offers only a user’s nickname, e-mail and KakaoTalk profile picture. Forms of personal data such as chat history are not shared.

Nonetheless, the social log-in feature involves passing on personal user data to outsiders, and in turn escalates the risks of a data breach or mismanagement.

Naver and Kakao said that they mandate partners using the social log-in feature not to share the user data with other parties. However, they currently do not have mechanisms to ensure that the data they had originally provided remains secure.

The failure to ensure such data protection is what had led to Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal in the first place.

In an attempt to salvage its plunging reputation, Facebook’s founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a formal apology last week and promised to investigate all the apps that had access to vast amounts of user data prior to 2014 when Facebook changed its privacy policies to prevent abusive apps from engaging in potential data misuse.

The social network also pledged to turn off access for unused apps, restrict the data that an app can request, make app management privacy and control easier and more visible for users, and reward those who discover misuses of Facebook data by third-party app developers.

Despite the series of efforts, Facebook faced yet another plunge in credibility on Friday after an internal memo suggesting that the firm’s leadership prioritized growth over all else, even if it meant overlooking the physical and social risks of the social network.

“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote in a 2016 memo for Facebook employees titled “The Ugly,” which was publicized by US-based BuzzFeed News.

“So we connect more people,” Bosworth wrote in another section of the note. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”

In response to the controversy, Zuckerberg said in a statement that he does not believe in a mantra of “growth at any cost” in which the “ends justify the means.”

PROMOTING Research and development, technology, innovation, and start-ups are crucial to helping leapfrog the country’s income by advancing towards the government’s Thailand 4.0 policy, which aims to enhance the country’s competitive capabilities and create sustainable growth.

Kobsak Phutrakul, a minister attached to Office of the Prime Minister, said at the MIT Global Start-up Workshop (GSW) 2018 that it will establish a new working group consisting of local and global start-ups and government officials to recommend necessary changes to the existing legal and tax systems.

Kobsak said the government is now working on revising the existing set of incentives to attract international companies to set up regional headquarters and regional research centres in Thailand, especially in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) area.

For its part, government will revise the existing law, global research agencies and activities.

Innovative capability will be one of the most important determinants of future success in a world of increasing competitions, he emphasised.

“We will have major revamp that will affect the future direction of research and the way that funding will be allocated, as well as the future of curriculum at all of the universities. This change will allow researchers to focus on project initiatives that will be able to lead to commercialising products. In addition, new incentives will be provided to universities to establish their start-up support centres, the same way that Chulalongkorn University opened Siam Innovation District last month,” said Kobsak.

“We are now in the most exciting and challenging period; these initiatives are the beginning of the list of what the Thai government will do to prepare Thailand for the future challenges in the coming age of the fourth industrial revolution,” he said.

Comparing Thailand to the US and Israel – the frontrunners in the world of start-ups – Kobsak said Thailand is still lacking in many ways, but the government is planning to become more aggressive in catching up with their lead and to become a hotbed for start-up activities.

Last year, for example, the government reduced income tax from 35 per cent to 15-17 per cent for the experts working in research facilities in the EEC area. In addition, the government revised the law to allow for hiring specialised experts to enable foreign educational institutes to establish their branches in Thailand, especially in the EEC area.

“We really hope MIT considers coming to Thailand to establish a branch here, as well. We are really confident in Thailand becoming the centre of one of the most exciting and vibrant regions in the world,” said Kobsak.

Meanwhile, Digital Economy and Society Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj said at the same event that the role of the government is to create the new economic platform, called “Start-up”, to bring entrepreneurial ideas into reality.

To drive Thailand to move forward, the EEC is the megaproject for Thailand 4.0, he said, and “Start-up” is the new economic army to help government and society to move Thailand upward. The pool of start-ups in Thailand today is rather small, and needs to expand, said Pichet, and how to expand partly depends on both public and government sectors, along with issues of taxation and creating incentives.

There are 75,000 villages in Thailand, with 75 per cent of them now on the Internet, thanks to a government initiative. A plan is in place to connect the remaining 25 per cent, he said.

In 2017 alone, around 24,700 villages were connected. By the end of 2018, all Thailand will be connected via a broadband network, creating vast opportunities for start-ups to do business throughout the country.

Last year, the government also set aside Bt5 billion for CAT Telecom to increase both domestic and international submarine cable capacity, as well as create a new link enabling Thailand to become the hub of the region. This enables start-ups to connect to do business and social development with other countries in the world.

“Government alone cannot create the success, it needs collaboration among the government, private sector, universities, and start-ups” said Pichet.

Richard Lester, associate provost of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said at the same event that there are many Thai leaders working actively to build up their universities and research institution. He compared their collaboration to change the future of Thailand to the similar founding of institutes to support and accelerate the US industrial revolutions.

MIT applies a problem-solving approach as powerful way to deal with challenges in the three areas of education, research and innovation.

The Sasin School of Management joined hands with the MIT Association of Thailand to bring the MIT Global Start-up Workshop (GSW) 2018 here from March 25 to 27.

MIT’s workshop is the premier global training and networking event for entrepreneurs, and has been hosted in a different country each year since 1998. This year is the first time Thailand hosted the GSW event, which was presented under the theme of “dream big, dream tech … tools for the innovation-driven entrepreneur”.