Established in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, today covers 4.5 million square kilometers and includes 500 million people from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia. With a different culture and language in each country, the economic range of the area varies greatly.
Singapore, the jewel in the region, has a government that has invested heavily in telecommunications networks and in the Internet. The Singapore Government is viewed as one of the top public-sector innovators using the Internet on a global scale as a “library of the future.”The Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group continues to work with various agencies on their Internet strategies for the future.
