What's interesting this week...
Develop Impact - Issue 149
Happy Monday!
I hope you have had a great weekend and ready to start the new week on a high spirit!
Today, I am back sharing with you another five articles that I found informative and thought-provoking. I hope that you find value in this newsletter for your current or future projects.
This community is all about learning, sharing, and growing together. Please let us know if you have any interesting resources or thoughts to share. Let's continue to use technology for the greater good.
Happy reading!
Jesse
What’s interesting…
Will Southeast Asia focus on data security more in 2023?
In Southeast Asia, data privacy is not considered a fundamental right. Most businesses lack internal policies and frameworks for handling personal data, as well as adequate cybersecurity practices, leaving them vulnerable to data loss.
While most companies in Southeast Asia eased out of lockdown in early 2022, many opted to continue hybrid or remote work arrangements. As a result, many organizations suffered up to S$1.348 million in damage as a result of data breaches.
What Psychological Safety Actually Means For Teams
Leaders protect their teams from harm and help motivate them to push through discomfort and harness it for growth.
The term psychological safety has been around since at least 1999 when Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard University published this influential paper on the subject. She proposed that a team's success will largely boil down to its members' tacit beliefs about interpersonal interaction.
Digital Transformation Is Not About Technology, It Is About Your People
While businesses have been digitizing their processes for over a decade, the market has changed dramatically over the past year, making it clear that traditional methods of application development are not suited for the current business landscape.
Rami Musallam, CEO of CafeX Communications, discusses how low-code platforms can help enterprises accelerate transformation initiatives and drive tangible impact by putting people at the center of application development.
Leveraging technology to enhance cross-generational workplace engagement
Technology offers opportunities to promote workplace engagement and learning in government agencies. Research indicates that offering training once every 3-6 months is a sweet spot for employee engagement and productivity. Employees overwhelmingly prefer training to be delivered in an online self-paced format.
Frugal tech can make innovation affordable. Here's how
India's mission to Mars highlights how we can improve access to technology by repurposing existing tech and tools. The World Bank issued a stark warning that the global economy stands "perilously close to falling into recession", but this doesn't give the tech world permission to stand still until markets improve. We need egalitarian innovation more than ever.