Category: Digitalization

Society Pass (SoPa) Completes Acquisition of Pushkart.ph Expanding Southeast Asia Footprint

  • Society Pass (SoPa) endeavors to revolutionize the online grocery shopping market in Philippines through this strategic acquisition
  • E-commerce industry in the Philippines is witnessing exponential growth and is expected to be at US$40 billion in 2025
  • SoPa is now poised to bring amplified value to consumers by allowing them to experience hassle-free shopping anytime, anywhere they want through Pushkart.ph
  • The company aims to empower more existing and new merchants in Philippines to reach the online market by allowing them to transform their shops digitally

Society Pass Incorporated (Nasdaq: SOPA), a leading Southeast Asian data-driven loyalty platform today announced that it has acquired Pushkart.ph, a leading online grocery delivery service in Philippines. As a result of the acquisition, Pushkart.ph becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of SoPa. The move kicks-off SoPa’s expansion into the Philippines market. Leveraging on SoPa’s capital, Pushkart.ph will focus on dramatically increasing on-demand grocery shopping services to more consumers and more retailers initially to Metro Manila and then to all of Philippines, while empowering grocery stores and restaurants to transform business models and further tap into online markets.

The announcement comes at a time of accelerated rapid growth for delivery services in Philippines, with the internet economy expected to increase 24% from US$17 billion in 2021 to US$40 billion in 2025. Pushkart.ph is one of Philippines’ fastest growing e-commerce platforms, with a customer base of over 125,000 registered users, over 35,000 social media followers, and more than 20,000 mobile app downloads.

Commenting on this strategic step, Dennis Nguyen, Society Pass Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are excited to combine the robust technology, retail and operational prowess of a high-performance brand like Pushkart.ph with our brand building experience. As the Phillipine consumer faces tremendous challenges with traditional brick and mortar shopping due to a plethora of hurdles including excessive wait times in traffic/public transport, SoPa aims to provide viable solutions by providing impetus to the growing e-commerce industry in the country. Given the immense potential of the Philippines market, we are very excited about the opportunities that this acquisition will bring in the upcoming months. In addition, as Philippines is a cornerstone of SoPa’s VIP (Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines) acquisition strategy, I expect to acquire a number of market leading companies in Philippines over the next few months.”

“We are very excited to announce our acquisition by Society Pass, this partnership provides us the opportunity to not only grow our presence in Philippines but further our lead in the grocery delivery business. We are excited to join the larger SoPa ecosystem which will enable us to harness its integrated marketing and technology proposition while also strengthening our collective senior management resources. We foresee that this will lead to immediate returns in terms of cost optimisation and increased revenue generation. With the capital provided by SoPa, Pushkart.ph will now be empowered to provide enhanced end to end solutions to our customers and ensure an amplified market presence,” said Michael Lim, CEO of Pushkart.ph.

Society Pass is leveraging technology to provide a more personalized experience for customers in the purchase journey, to help transform the entire retail value chain in SEA. Through the acquisition of market-leading companies and partnership with visionary entrepreneurs in five distinct verticals: loyalty, lifestyle, travel, food & beverage and merchant software, the company expects to meet the region’s growing demand for better and more convenient services. The acquisition is in line with SoPa’s core vertical focus and facilitates proliferation of its growth in Philippines while increasing consumer opportunities and delivering enhanced value. This move will also help tap the increasing digital penetration in the online grocery shopping space in the Philippines market.

The offering of this acquisition is of immense consequence to the end user with SoPa’s aggressive new plans for Pushkart.ph which include adding more hubs in key cities and regions and increasing its manpower. SoPa aims to expand Pushkart.ph’s technology offering, phenomenally increasing registered users to more than double to over 300,000 and driving app downloads to over 150,000 in 2022. Philippine consumers will be able to use Pushkart.ph app across 19 cities in Metro Manila with a guaranteed next day delivery service.

About Society Pass
Society Pass’ customer loyalty and analytics platform has onboarded hundreds of thousands of registered consumers. Society Pass provides merchants with SoPa.asia – an online commerce platform for users, alongside with #HOTTAB Biz – a convenient order management app for business partners on SoPa.asia, and #HOTTAB POS – a specialized POS technology solution, a comprehensive system for payment, loyal customer management, user’s profile analytics, and convenient financial support packages for small and medium-sized enterprises. All tools offered above will allow businesses to attract and retain customers through personalized interaction based on analytics with a high profit margin. In addition, SoPa operates Leflair.com, Vietnam’s leading lifestyle e-commerce platform.

SoPa is a loyalty and data marketing ecosystem that operates multiple e-commerce and lifestyle platforms across its key markets. Its business model focuses on collecting user data through the expected circulation of its universal loyalty points. It seamlessly connects consumers and merchants across multiple product and service categories fostering organic loyalty. From its launch in 2019, SoPa has amassed over 1.5 million registered users and over 3,500 registered merchants and brands. It has since invested 2+ years building proprietary IT architecture with cutting edge components to effectively scale and support its Platform’s consumers, merchants, and acquisitions. For more information, please check out: http://thesocietypass.com/

Media contact
PRecious Communications for SoPa
sopa@preciouscomms.com

The Glimpse Group Announces the Launch of Glimpse Australia

  • US-based Virtual and Augmented Reality company expands global presence with an Australian hub

The Glimpse Group (Glimpse), a diversified, Nasdaq listed, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) platform company providing enterprise-focused VR and AR software and services solutions, announced their newest operating hub Glimpse Australia. This follows the successful acquisition by Glimpse of Augmented Reality Investments Pty Ltd’s assets, an Australia-based company (Auggd) in August 2021.

Auggd provides AR software and services to the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry (“AEC”) in Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Since its inception approximately eight years ago, Auggd has generated over $2 million in aggregate revenue and has successfully deployed hundreds of mobile AR apps across a broad range of industry sectors.

Matthias Krampe, General Manager of Auggd under Glimpse commented, “We are thrilled to launch Glimpse Australia after Auggd joined Glimpse’s diverse and robust ecosystem of VR and AR companies. Australian clients now have the opportunity to leverage Glimpse’s technology solutions, and in turn, open the Australian enterprise market to Glimpse’s VR and AR subsidiary companies.”

Auggd’s existing operations and clients serve as the initial base of operations for Glimpse Australia. Current Australian client examples include Laing O’Rourke, ADCO, GPJ, PwC, and AV Jennings.

Lyron Bentovim, President & CEO of The Glimpse Group said: “The AEC market represents a significant strategic market opportunity for Glimpse. Auggd is well-positioned to capture an increasing share and drive the adoption of these novel technologies. We look forward to building out Glimpse’s AEC client pipeline together with Auggd in Australia and the rest of the globe.”

Mr. Bentovim continued: “Auggd has built a respected reputation in Australia with clients across industries that also include automotive, consumer goods and technology, sales and marketing, and education. We see tremendous growth potential in the Australian market and look forward to future partnerships.”

About Auggd
Auggd is a specialised AR software development and services company based in Sydney, Australia. Since its inception in 2014, Auggd has been focused on developing and delivering enterprise solutions, products and services tailored specifically for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) sector to visualise design intent to all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle in order to reduce the costs associated with rework. For more information on Auggd, please visit https://auggd.com/

About Glimpse Group
The Glimpse Group is a Nasdaq-listed, diversified Virtual and Augmented Reality platform company, comprised of multiple VR and AR software & services companies, and designed with the specific purpose of cultivating companies in the emerging VR/AR industry. Glimpse’s unique business model simplifies challenges faced by VR/AR companies and creates a robust ecosystem, while simultaneously providing investors an opportunity to invest directly into the emerging VR/AR industry via a diversified platform. For more information on The Glimpse Group, please visit https://www.glimpsegroup.com.au.

For more information on Glimpse Australia’s products and services please send an email to info@glimpsegroup.com.au. For any media inquiries, please contact James Lambert, Account Director at HeraldPR, at j.lambert@heraldpr.com or at +1-504-256-0925.

Company Contact:
Matthias Krampe
General Manager
Auggd
matthiaskrampe@auggd.com

SOURCE: The Glimpse Group, Inc.

Digital Week 2.0: Largest Coming Together of Southeast Asia’s Digital Future

The year 2021 can be termed as one of “Resurgence”. Lives, businesses all saw a resurgence to some extent, even as Covid-19 continued to ravage many economies and livelihoods. If the year 2020 was when organisations began their internal digital transformation journey, in 2021- forward thinking companies turned their attention to integrate and digitalise external business processes.

Digital consumption is now an ingrained way of life in Southeast Asia. Early adopters have expanded usage–pre-pandemic users are consuming four more digital services than they did before 2020 and the 60 million consumers who joined since the pandemic started are here to stay, with nine in 10 consumers who tried a new digital service in 2020 are continued using that service in 2021, according to a Bain, Google & Temasek report.

From mom-and-pop stores who had reservations in adoption e-commerce to larger companies enabling millions of their workforce to work remotely, a positive evolution is underway as companies and their stakeholders find new ways of connecting, collaborating and keeping in pace with their evolving needs.

This massive digitalisation has fuelled the need for data centres. The data center market in Southeast Asia is growing significantly, with multiple investments in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. Southeast Asia is among the fastest-growing digital markets worldwide. The internet usage and social media trends have increased the demand for faster internet networks and data centers to store data generated by them.

The internet penetration is one of the strongest drivers for the data center market in Southeast Asia. Moreover, social media usage among consumers and digital transformation by enterprises across industry verticals are other major factors promoting data center growth. The investments are growing significantly across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. In 2020, Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT Global Data Centers, Space DC & GIC, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, DTP, and DCI Indonesia were major investors in the Southeast Asia data center market.

Looking ahead to 2022 and beyond, new questions arise as millions of users from Brisbane to Batam embrace IoT, AI, and 5G. How can we store this data sustainably? Are there vulnerabilities in endpoint security still to account for? How can SME’s leverage cloud technology as effectively as enterprises?

Simply put, it is time to get together and talk about the future of the Cloud & IT industries in this region. And so, W.Media has come back with Digital Week: Southeast Asia, after a hugely successful 2021 edition.

The 2nd Edition of Digital Week with an enhanced Hybrid format brings the best knowledge sharing and quality networking experience in South East Asia.

Our SEA Digital Week 2022 is back on the 9th-11th March with a hybrid style that combines both an insightful digital experience with global speakers and valuable in-person networking opportunities that we’ve been missing during the pandemic. As part of our upcoming Digital Week, we will focus on the markets of Southeast Asia where they will highlight different market insights and trends of the cloud, data center and the IT industry, as well as discuss with the experts about the current updates of this ecosystem.

Experience the best of both worlds – choose to participate in either the digital or on site events or even both! Anticipate a return of 2500+ Cloud and Datacenter professionals across the region online and on site.

For more information, visit https://w.media/sea-digital-week-2022/.

ITE signs MOU with VIZZIO to Launch New Centre of Excellence, Harnessing the Power of 3D Virtualization

Universal Omniverse Experience Centre to leverage Geo-Spatial, 3D Virtualization and Digital Twin technologies to enhance training, accelerate SME digitalization in Singapore

VIZZIO Technologies, a Singapore-based technology company specialized in creating and virtualizing digital realities, today announced a three-year partnership with the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) to launch a new Centre of Excellence – the Universal Omniverse Experience Centre – at ITE College Central. The Centre, which will leverage next-generation technologies including AI-powered Geo-Spatial, 3D virtualization and Digital Twin solutions, will deliver training programs to students and adult learners.

(Left) Mr Suresh Natarajan, Principal of ITE College Central, and Dr Jon Li, CEO and Founder of Vizzio Technologies Pte Ltd.

“As Singapore continues to advance its Smart Nation agenda, we need to prepare our students, adult learners and wider business community with the deep tech skills they need for future employability and decision-making. Together with VIZZIO, we are delivering a holistic curriculum, integrating education and real-world applications of 3D technologies to demonstrate the power of spatial data for industrial and smart city projects. Leveraging these emerging technologies, we are excited for what the future holds as we continue to foster Singapore’s deep-tech talent and unlock new opportunities to spur innovation and digitalization,” said Mr. Suresh Natarajan, Principal, ITE College Central.

As part of the MOU, VIZZIO will focus on training ITE students, ITE lecturers and adult learners in 3D modelling and visualisation including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Building Information Modelling (BIM), Unreal Game Engine and Mixed and Virtual Reality (MR/VR). The courses are targeted at addressing three key pillars: Manpower Capability, SME Digitalization and Go-Green:

1. Boost Manpower Capability by Enhancing Teaching and Learning
VIZZIO will provide ITE with advisory services to support the development of a new multi-disciplinary curriculum for students as part of a revamped Game & Immersive Applications course. The curriculum will cover areas including built environment visualization and immersive geospatial applications to further enhance employability resilience and future readiness of ITE students.

VIZZIO will also support ITE’s ambitions to drive digital education with the creation of an Avatar Teacher, with a humanized face and text-based technology support. The Avatars will be embedded into PowerPoint presentations and learning applications to provide ITE staff with support in delivering a more immersive and interactive learning experience.

Under the partnership, VIZZIO is also a sponsor for the ITE Work-Study Diploma (WSDip) that aims to develop and nurture the next generation of Singapore thinkers with real life work experience. Students can also apply for internship placements at Vizzio and have the opportunity to work and learn from the best in developing their professional skills for the future.

For adult learners looking at sharpening their deep tech knowledge and skills, VIZZO will co-develop and co-deliver training courses under ITE’s Continuing Education and Training (CET) framework. ITE staff will also benefit from industry attachments to upgrade their skills. These opportunities will afford students, adult learners and staff exposure to latest industry trends and practices.

2. Drive SME digitalization in Singapore
VIZZIO and ITE will also jointly design and curate short courses on geo-spatial technologies for adult learners and the industry. By creating an edu-industry community platform, this will provide opportunities for lifelong learning, workforce adaptability by co-creating with industry and help SMEs digitalize their operations.

3. Foster Smart Learning, Smart Working

Integrating live video streaming and BIM (Building Information Modelling) technologies, VIZZIO and ITE will explore a Smart Building GIS (geographic information system) solution. This will help promote a digital ecosystem within the industry as students and SMEs can better visualize data, taking the theoretical to practical and measuring predictions or impacts more accurately and efficiently.

“3D technology is on course to become part of our everyday lives, from mapping the world around us to enabling us to experience entertainment in a whole new way. However, while 3D virtualization and Digital Twin technologies have been around for a while, they are typically complex, clunky, and expensive. At VIZZIO, we want to empower all users – from novices to digital experts – with easy and seamless access to these technologies,” said Jon Li, CEO and Founder of VIZZIO. “We are thrilled to be partnering with forward-looking institutions like ITE who share our vision in bringing these technologies closer to students and the wider business community in Singapore and look forward to welcoming a new generation of talent to the world of 3D.”

About VIZZIO Technologies
VIZZIO Technologies is a Singapore based, AI Modelling & Visualisation company that is on a mission to democratize and simplify 3D. Harnessing the power of 3D visualisation technologies, AI, machine learning processes, and EDGE-COMPUTING scanning hardware, VIZZIO offers an advanced yet easy-to-use platform, empowering users – from novices to digital experts across all industries – to access best-in-class 3D-as-a-Service offerings on demand, enabling anyone to co-create, virtualize and interact with digital realities. Vizzio has been spearheading the adoption of dimensionally accurate and immersive 3D capture & visualisations for Singapore’s leading government agencies and companies including Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF), Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), National University of Singapore (NUS) and SMRT Corporation (SMRT) as well as Singapore based companies such as CapitaLand, SATS, StarHub, DP Architects among others. For more information, please visit https://vizzio.ai/

About Institute of Technical Education
The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was established as a post-secondary institution in 1992, under the Ministry of Education. ITE is a principal provider of career and technical education and a key developer of national skills certification and standards skilling Singapore for the future economy. It offers three key programmes – (1) Pre-Employment Training for youths after secondary education (2) Continuing Education and Training for adult learners and (3) Industry-Based and Work-Study Programmes with employers. Under its ‘One ITE System, Three Colleges’ Governance Model, ITE has three Colleges – ITE College Central, ITE College East and ITE College West. For more information, please visit https://www.ite.edu.sg

Media Contacts:
The Hoffman Agency on behalf of VIZZIO Technologies
Email: VizzioSG@hoffman.com

ITE
Jailani Nathan, Manager, Corporate & Media Relations
Email: Jailani_Nathan@ite.edu.sg

Wikisoft Corp. Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Disruptive Blockchain Tech Company — Etheralabs LLC

Wikisoft Corp. (the “Company,” “we,” and “our”) (OTCQB: WSFT) today announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire a majority stake in Etheralabs LLC, a New York City based venture lab and ecosystem that invests in, builds, and deploys disruptive technologies across the Blockchain space.

The proposed transaction would include full global access to Etheralabs LLC’s disruptive technologies across the Blockchain and global funding landscape. With the majority stake, Wikisoft plans to ensure that Etheralabs future product and technology roadmap supports Wikisoft’s platform strategy. The parties intend to enter into a binding agreement after consultation with their respective legal counsel. Wikisoft Corp. plan to fund the acquisition with equity, thus providing the Company the optimum financial flexibility in the future. Wikisoft’s Board of Directors has given a commitment to approve the transaction.

Carsten Kjems Falk, Chief Executive Officer of Wikisoft Corp. said, “Etheralabs LLC’s disruptive technology and products are expected to provide an outstanding opportunity to expand Wikisoft’s global reach with superior technology and high value-add products. This includes but is not limited to the blockchain technology for the upcoming wikifunding platform enabling startups to connect to the blockchain community, investors and venture capital. Furthermore, the AmpliFi press release distribution service is expected to be accessible to the 90 million businesses now held in the Wikisoft database, providing global reach to any of those companies. Our greater scale, broader product offering and geographic exposure should accelerate our growth and provide greater earnings diversity.” The Company expects the proposed transaction to be accretive to earnings realized over the two years following the acquisition.

Bryan Feinberg, CEO and Founder of Etheralabs said, “Wikisoft’s capabilities coupled with our background in transforming large data ecosystems into vibrant communities creates a definitive way to leverage our background to accelerate Wikisoft’s entry into the global blockchain market and look forward to our ability to leverage Wikisoft’s unique architecture and data environment into an active and vibrant venture community.”

About Etheralabs LLC

Etheralabs is New York City based venture lab and ecosystem that invests in, builds, and deploys disruptive technologies across the Blockchain landscape. Etheralabs fast-tracks ideas into solutions that help high-growth companies with a focus on capital appreciation and scale via early-stage identification and accelerated resource deployment. The acceleration model lays the foundation for taking promising IP from both concept to company and from revenue to profitability, culminating in a fully functioning portfolio venture that is ready to attract follow-on funding, an acquisition partner, or to operate as a standalone company.
More information can be found at: https://etheralabs.io

About Wikisoft Corporation

In today’s fast-moving business world of increasing globalization, Wikisoft leverages big data and associated insights from business datasets to improve performance.

In line with this new phase of globalization, Wikisoft believes that there is a growing demand for access to credible and reliable business data. Data is essential to creating the complete view of customers, prospects, investors, suppliers, and partners necessary to power the right decisions.
Our vision is to create opportunity globally by collecting precise data, curating it, verifying it and putting it in the hands of professionals and businesses as consumable business intelligence. We believe in the power of Wikisoft to collect massive amounts of data and deliver it to businesses curated, credible and reliable.

CONTACT:
WikiSoft Corp.
315 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
CA 94104, USA
Phone: +1-800-706-0806
Email: investor@wikisoft.com
Investor site: www.wikisoft.com

SOURCE: WikiSoft Corp.

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Society Pass (SoPa) Announces Pricing of US$10 Million Underwritten Public Offering

Society Pass Incorporated (Nasdaq: SOPA) (SoPa or the Company), a leading Southeast Asian data-driven loyalty platform, today announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 3,030,300 shares of common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase up to 3,030,300 shares of common stock. Each share of common stock is being sold together with one warrant at a combined purchase price of US$3.30. The warrants will be immediately exercisable at a price of US$3.30 per share and will expire five years from the date of issuance. The shares of common stock and accompanying warrants can only be purchased together in the offering, but will be issued separately and will be immediately separable upon issuance. The warrants will not be listed on any exchange. Gross proceeds, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, are expected to be approximately US$10 million.

The Company has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to 454,545 additional shares of common stock and/or additional warrants to purchase up to an additional 454,545 shares of common stock at the public offering price to cover over-allotments, if any. The offering is expected to close on February 11, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.

Maxim Group LLC is acting as sole book-running manager for the offering.
A registration statement relating to the Shares was declared effective by the SEC on February 8, 2022. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by contacting Maxim Group LLC, 300 Park Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, New York 10022. Copies of the registration statement can be accessed through the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About Society Pass
SoPa’s customer loyalty and analytics platform has onboarded hundreds of thousands of registered consumers. SoPa provides merchants with SoPa.asia – an online commerce platform for users, alongside with #HOTTAB Biz – a convenient order management app for business partners on SoPa.asia, and #HOTTAB POS – a specialized POS technology solution, a comprehensive system for payment, loyal customer management, user’s profile analytics, and convenient financial support packages for small and medium-sized enterprises. All tools offered above will allow businesses to attract and retain customers through personalized interaction based on analytics with a high profit margin. SoPa also operates www.leflair.com, Vietnam’s leading lifestyle e-commerce platform. For more information, please check out: http://thesocietypass.com/

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5,000+ Educators, Policymakers & Technology Leaders Assemble to Plan for the Future of Education in the Philippines

On 16-17 February 2022, the 6th annual EDUtech Philippines 2022 will once again bring together the Philippines’ entire education ecosystem to discuss new strategies, pedagogies and innovations to bring 21st century quality education to all in the Philippines.

The past two years have shown just how important technology in education truly is, and how being up to date on technology strategy, digital pedagogy and tools is crucial to the delivery of quality education in a hybrid environment. With that in mind, EDUtech Philippines has created a program tailored to the needs of an increasingly technology-driven education community.
Gracing the event is the Guest of Honour, H.E. Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones, Secretary of Education, Department of Education, Philippines (DepEd), who will open the event through a keynote address at 9am on 16 February, providing an outlook into the future of K-12 education in the Philippines and how the transformation roadmap will be achieved through partnerships, innovation and technology.

Building on this, Fr. Aristotle C. Dy, SJ, PhD, President of Xavier School, Ms Bernadette Nacario, Country Director of Google Philippines and Mr Michael Ngan, President and General Manager of Lenovo Philippines will also be delivering keynotes about developing the workforce of the futures with 21st century skills and the importance of technology in enhancing learning for all.

On Day Two, Executive Director David B. Bungallon of the National Institute for Technical Education and Skills Development (NITESD), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will share how TESDA is providing accessible, high-quality technical vocational education and training. While Dr. Betty Cernol McCann, President, Silliman University discusses strategies for designing and implementing innovative digital solutions for your institution.

In addition to the visionary keynotes, there will be a series of K-12 and Higher Education fireside chats and panel discussions by 100+ expert speakers on digital leadership, learning and teaching technologies, digital pedagogies digital schools and campuses and more.

Additional featured speakers at EDUtech Philippines include:
– Hon. Ma. Josefina “Joy” Belmonte, Mayor, Quezon City Government
– Redilyn C. Agub, Chief, e-TESDA Unit, NITESD, TESDA
– Abram Y.C Abanil, Director IV, Information and Communications Technology Service, Department of Education Philippines
– Trish Anne Castro, Principal, De La Salle University Integrated School
– Paul Anthony Notorio, Director, Center for Innovative Learning Programs, De La Salle University-Dasmarinas
– Mark Sy, Chief Academic Officer, APEC Schools
– Prof. Dr. Cheryl Peralta, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Santo Tomas
– Maria A. Roque, Chief, TESDA Specialist, National TVET Trainers Academy (NTTA), NITESD, TESDA
– Estela Carino, Regional Director Cordillera Administrative Region, Department of Education Philippines
– Samuel Gipson, Head of Secondary, Nord Anglia International School Manila
– Dr. Dave E. Marcial, Director, Silliman Online University Learning
– Enzo Flojo, Asst. Principal for Formation, Ateneo de Manila Junior High School
– Catherine M. Catamora, Director, Education Technology Office, Far Eastern University
– Francis Jim Tuscano, Grade School EdTech Coordinator, Xavier School San Juan
– Prof. Ganemulle Lekamalage Dharmasri Wickramasinghe, PhD, Director General, Colombo Plan Staff College

Besides the conference, the exhibition will feature a showcase of the latest education technologies by Google for Education, Lenovo, Canvas by Instructure, Coursera for Campus, REX Education, Globe Business, NEO by Cypher Learning, Linux Professional Institute and more.
Supported by DepEd and TESDA, the two-day free-to-attend conference and exhibition is expected to gather over 5,000 education stakeholders from Philippines and beyond.

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Libraries Tasmania Selects Preservica to Safeguard Public Access to Archives Collections

  • Preservica’s Digital Preservation Framework Will Manage Digital Collections in Excess of 150TB to Ensure Long-Term Storage of Digital Archives

Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation software, has partnered with Libraries Tasmania in a multi-year contract to accept, preserve, and store digital government and non-government records as archives.

The ability to efficiently or effectively manage the 150TB’s of digital collections manually has become difficult, placing Libraries Tasmania at risk of not meeting required standards to ensure the ongoing preservation and accessibility of its digital cultural collections.

Preservica worked with local partner Document Management Tasmania (DMTAS) on the formal tender and procurement process. The digital preservation service will be hosted on AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

The Tasmanian Archives holds hundreds of thousands of items of significant historical and cultural value, in various formats, that are actively degrading. These contain content unique and integral to Tasmanian history and must adhere to industry standards and compliance requirements to support business processes for the secure capture, storage, management, identification, access, delivery and long-term preservation of its digital collections.

“Our commitment is to preserve the continuing memory of Tasmania as the lead provider of history, research, and information services,” said Allegra Huxtable, Manager Government Archives & Preservation at Libraries Tasmania, Department of Education. “We are thrilled to partner with Preservica to preserve archives and heritage items to fulfill our legislated role as the keeper of Tasmania’s memory, and generate opportunities for lifelong learning, and cultural inspiration available to anyone around the world.”

The digital preservation system will form part of the State Library and Tasmanian Archives infrastructure that will support the receipt of transfers from Tasmanian State Government Agencies and non-government organizations’ of digital records in all forms, including digitized versions of hardcopy records as well as unstructured and structured born-digital records.

This also includes published digital assets acquired through legal deposit or purchase (where these items are not suitable for inclusion on the National E-Deposit System).

Public access to the Tasmanian Archives collections includes government records, private records, and cultural heritage items in a large number of formats including hard copy documentary items, physical items and their digital surrogates (digitized versions), audio recordings (including analog and born-digital), Film and Video (including analog and born-digital), maps, newspapers, and photographs.

Online access to digital materials has become increasingly important for many Australian government, academic, cultural and commercial organizations. Libraries Tasmania is part of a growing community of institutions using Preservica in the region including The National Archives of Australia (NAA), The National Library of Australia (NLA), the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), Moore College and many other government, cultural, and academic institutions.

We are delighted that Libraries Tasmania is part of a growing number of customers in our user community in Australia,” said Mike Quinn, CEO Preservica. “Preservica’s preservation system is a key part of the total environment needed to provide their digital collections with the best chance of long-term survival.”

Preservica’s digital preservation and discovery solution, Starter edition is providing multi-sized archives across the region with an easy, locally hosted way to preserve important records and showcase digital collections that document Australia’s rich history, ensuring content is kept safe and usable over decades are all automatically taken care of.

See if Preservica is a fit for you. Learn more about its library and museum archive software or try Preservica for free to create, preserve and share your first digital collection in minutes.

About Preservica
With offices in Boston, MA and Abingdon, Oxfordshire (UK), Preservica is changing the way organizations around the world protect and future-proof critical long-term digital information. Available in the cloud (SaaS) or on-premise, our award-winning active digital preservation software has been designed from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of ensuring digital information remains accessible and trustworthy over decades.

It’s a proven solution that’s trusted by hundreds of businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organizations around the world, including the UK National Archives, Texas State Library and Archives, MoMA, Yale and HSBC. Visit: www.preservica.com and Twitter: @preservica

Contact:
Kate Forte
York IE
Kforte@york.ie

SOURCE: Preservica

Pakistan’s Silkbank Taps Silverlake Axis to Grow Credit Card Footprint

Singapore mainboard listed Silverlake Axis Ltd. (SGX:5CP) (SAL or the Group), the ASEAN market leader in core banking software, today, announced an expansion to the partnership with Silkbank Limited (Silkbank), a leading commercial and Islamic bank in Pakistan. Through the latest agreement, Silkbank will upgrade its card management suite to use Silverlake Axis’s latest platform, Silverlake Symmetri OmniCard V6.

OmniCard is an internationally certified card management system that allows banks to run flexible and secure operations including issuing and acquiring of all types of credit, debit and prepaid cards, ATM management, 3D secure e-commerce transaction processing, management of fraud, disputes, and cardholder’s loyalty. This latest move further strengthens Silverlake Axis’s leadership position within Pakistan’s credit card market, where it currently commands over 80 percent market share. It also allows Pakistan’s and the region’s banks to tap into Silverlake’s award winning technologies to grow their card footprint, and in the process, better cater to their customers.

Gyorgy Ladics, CEO Silverlake Symmetri, commented: “We are immensely proud of the deep and long-standing partnership we have forged with Silkbank. Moreover, Pakistan continues to establish itself as a fast-growing market with huge potential for building its credit card market and we are very optimistic about its growth. To that extent, the trust Silkbank has placed in us is a true honor, and as we continue this exciting journey together, we are confident that this trust will see strong returns.”

Nabeel Malik, Executive Director – Strategy Implementation & Ops/Admin/IT/CSQ at Silkbank, commented: “Silverlake has been a trusted partner to Silkbank for 9 years. The in-depth experience, system understanding, and professionalism of Silverlake team has been invaluable to us. As we continue to transform and advance the banking landscape in Pakistan, their partnership and vast expertise will be a key factor in us growing with confidence.”

With over 30 years of experience and a breadth of expertise across industries, Silverlake Axis creates technologies to empower businesses in the digital economy, transforming industries like banking, insurance, retail, and logistics. Silverlake Symmetri OmniCard is a universal card and payment management system, designed to help both acquiring and issuing institutions to run efficient, secure and profitable operations. With Silverlake Symmetri OmniCard, banks can reduce time to market for new card products while at the same time offer excellent service to drive loyalty across the customer base. The solution also enables them to cross-sell and up-sell, while reducing fraud and risk, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

“With Silverlake Axis already issuing 80% of cards in the market, Silkbank’s partnership to deploy our credit card solutions only solidifies our leadership position in Pakistan. However, it’s only one step in our growth plan. We are seeing strong opportunities across the MENA, South and Southeast Asia regions with our Islamic and retail banking partners as well,” added Ladics.

About Silverlake Axis
Silverlake Axis Ltd. (“SAL”) is a leading enterprise technology, software and services company focused on financial services and serves 40% of the top 20 largest banks in South East Asia. Founded in 1989, SAL has an impeccable track record of successful delivery of innovative and transformative solutions to its enterprise customers and their ecosystems. The Group has more than 380 enterprise customers in over 80 countries across Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

Under Axis Systems Holdings Limited, SAL was listed on the SGX-SESDAQ on 12 March 2003. It was renamed Silverlake Axis Ltd in 2006 and the listing was transferred to the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange on 22 June 2011. For more information about SAL, please visit www.silverlakeaxis.com.

NextPlay Technologies Longroot Selected by Ample Health to Lead Security Token Offering

NextPlay Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTP), a digital business ecosystem for digital advertisers, consumers, video gamers and travelers, reported that its licensed Longroot digital token offering platform will serve as the financial advisor and underwriter for Ample Health’s (‘Ample’) proposed security token offering (STO).

Ample Health is an emerging cannabis company operating from seed to sale in Southeast Asia. The company is looking to use the proceeds from its STO to fund its development and global expansion.

Longroot will be responsible for structuring the offering and raising the initial capital to fund the STO. This will involve developing the registration statements for all relevant jurisdictions, including preliminary and final prospectuses. It intends to lead Ample through the entire regulatory approval process, and then assist in the pricing and launching the STO through the Longroot portal.

“This Ample Health STO represents a tremendous opportunity for us to represent a major client in the fast-growing global cannabis space,” commented Todd Bonner, director of Longroot (Thailand) Limited and chairman of NextPlay Technologies. “Once complete, we believe it will represent the first of many successful STOs for Longroot that we are currently advancing in our pipeline.”

Ample Health looks to take advantage of the global cannabis market which is projected to grow at a 32% compounded annual growth rate from $28.3 billion in 2021 to $197.74 billion by 2028, according to Fortune Business Insights.

Akira Wongwan, CEO and co-founder of Ample Health, commented: “We selected Longroot to lead our STO due to its experienced management and well-established presence in the digital offering marketplace, as well as its Thai federal government licensing and oversight. Together, we believe this will ensure a highly-successful STO and the launch of our global cannabis platform.”

The proposed offering targets to raise between USD $100-250 million. Longroot will receive a management and placement fee on the proceeds raised due immediately upon closing of the offering, which is expected to occur by the summer of 2022.

Disclaimer
The information included in the press release is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as, an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument, security or digital currency, or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market information, data and other information included herein are not guaranteed as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice.

This press release is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration. Any public offering of securities to be made in the United States will be made by means of a prospectus that may be obtained from Ample Health and will contain detailed information about the company and management, as well as financial statements.

About Ample Health

Ample Health is an emerging cannabis company operating from seed to sale in Southeast Asia. It is focused on bringing synergy between growers, extractors, retailers and regulators, to help them compete in the domestic and international cannabis market and creating a fair and sustainable industry for all.

About Longroot

Authorized and regulated under global-leading Thai federal digital asset business law and licensed by the Securities & Exchange Commission of Thailand, Longroot (Thailand) Limited provides fully regulated and licensed digital asset financing and investment services for digital assets. Longroot is focused on creating regulated cryptocurrencies used in wholesale travel, real estate and hotels, gaming assets, insurance and digital advertising. As a Thailand-based corporation, Longroot is indirectly controlled by NextPlay Technologies. For more information, go to longroot.co.th.

About NextPlay Technologies
NextPlay Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTP) is a technology solutions company offering games, in-game advertising, crypto-banking, connected TV and travel booking services to consumers and corporations within a growing worldwide digital ecosystem. NextPlay’s engaging products and services utilize innovative AdTech, Artificial Intelligence and Fintech solutions to leverage the strengths and channels of its existing and acquired technologies. For more information about NextPlay Technologies, visit www.nextplaytechnologies.com and follow us on Twitter @NextPlayTech and LinkedIn.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of, and within the safe harbor provided by the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, opinions, belief or forecasts of future events and performance. A statement identified by the use of forward-looking words including “will,” “may,” “expects,” “intends,” “projects,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimate,” “should,” and certain of the other foregoing statements may be deemed forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future activities and results to be materially different from those suggested or described in this news release. Factors that may cause such a difference include risks and uncertainties including, and not limited to, our need for additional capital which may not be available on commercially acceptable terms, if at all, which raises questions about our ability to continue as a going concern; the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and is expected to continue to have, a significant material adverse impact on the travel industry and our business, operating results and liquidity; current regulation governing digital currency activity is often unclear and is evolving; the future development and growth of digital currencies are subject to a variety of factors that are difficult to predict and evaluate, many of which are out of our control; the value of digital currency is volatile; amounts owed to us by third parties which may not be paid timely, if at all; certain amounts we owe under outstanding indebtedness which are secured by substantially all of our assets and penalties we may incur in connection therewith; the fact that we have significant indebtedness, which could adversely affect our business and financial condition; our revenues and results of operations being subject to the ability of our distributors and partners to integrate our alternative lodging rental (ALR) properties with their websites, and the timing of such integrations; uncertainty and illiquidity in credit and capital markets which may impair our ability to obtain credit and financing on acceptable terms and may adversely affect the financial strength of our business partners; the officers and directors of the Company have the ability to exercise significant influence over the Company; stockholders may be diluted significantly through our efforts to obtain financing, satisfy obligations and complete acquisitions through the issuance of additional shares of our common or preferred stock; if we are unable to adapt to changes in technology, our business could be harmed; our travel business depends substantially on property owners and managers renewing their listings; if we do not adequately protect our intellectual property, our ability to compete could be impaired; our long-term success depends, in part, on our ability to expand our property owner, manager and traveler bases outside of the United States and, as a result, our business is susceptible to risks associated with international operations; unfavorable changes in, or interpretations of, government regulations or taxation of the evolving ALR, Internet and e-commerce industries which could harm our operating results; risks associated with the operations of, the business of, and the regulation of, Longroot and NextBank International (formerly IFEB); the market in which we participate being highly competitive, and because of that we may be unable to compete successfully with our current or future competitors; our potential inability to adapt to changes in technology, which could harm our business; the volatility of our stock price; the fact that we may be subject to liability for the activities of our property owners and managers, which could harm our reputation and increase our operating costs; and that we have incurred significant losses to date and require additional capital which may not be available on commercially acceptable terms, if at all. More information about the risks and uncertainties faced by NextPlay are detailed from time to time in NextPlay’s periodic reports filed with the SEC, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, under the headings “Risk Factors”. These reports are available at www.sec.gov. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse effects on the Company’s future results and/or could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. The Company takes no obligation to update or correct its own forward-looking statements, except as required by law, or those prepared by third parties that are not paid for by the Company. If we update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that we will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements.

SOURCE: NextPlay Technologies, Inc.

Company Contacts:
NextPlay Technologies, Inc.
Richard Marshall
Director of Corporate Development
Tel: (954) 888-9779
Email: richard.marshall@nextplaytechnologies.com

Ample Health
Akira Wongwan
Founder
Tel: 0869778788
Email: a.wongwan@gmail.com