Innovation boom seen in Asia in the year of the water snake

CEBU, Philippines -  Asia as a centre for innovation is seen to conquer the Year of the Water Snake with the adoption of technology in emerging markets, the bright future of touch and mobile devices, government goals, education, entrepreneurialism, the new wave of explosive growth of small and medium enterprises getting technical and cloud computing projected to engulf the enterprise in 2013.

In a press statement, Intel Asia Pacific regional sales organization director Philip Cronin said that although 300 million people in the region are currently not digitally aware, new populations will come online and will begin to look for ways to connect come 2013.

Asia Pacific accounts over 45 percent of the world’s youth which is amounting to around 700 million people below the age of 25 who have grown up in a world of always-on connectivity.

It is also projected that enterprises will experience resurgence in connectivity as employees search for ways to create connections and form new efficient ways of working with colleagues.

Corporations themselves even allot large portion of corporate budget to IT-led innovations.

“The consumerization of IT will continue not only with the trend of taking your own device to work driven by enterprise grade tablets but also by employees looking for new ways to connect and share with colleagues. Secure enterprises class social networks will be sought after across Asia,” said Intel Southeast Asia managing director Uday Marty.

Cronin added that by this year, the company expects an adoption of technology in emerging markets to propel innovation.

It is also foreseen that traditional input devices such as keyboard and mouse will be challenged by new intuitive input methods such as touch and will eventually include gesture recognition.

“2013 will be the year that consumers experience touch ramping as a mainstream feature in notebook and all-in-one PCs. Voice and gesture technologies will also build momentum and be sought after as new ways to interact with computing devices including PCs,” Marty continued.

As users will desire for improved processing power, people will move from consumption to multitasking thru the use of tablets for productivity which will incur greater processing demands on devices.

In 2013, a range of screen sizes, processing power and weights will be introduced to the market and manufacturers shall complete verification programs and user testing prior to releasing devices and will depend on consumers’ choices to identify the most popular devices for future production.

This is according to David McCloskey, Intel Asia Pacific director of product marketing and business operations.

“As more mobile internet users join the online community digital over-sharing will be a trend that reaches millions across the region. In our most recent research we uncovered how comfortable people are with over-sharing,” he stated.

Meanwhile, Intel executives recommend that the government should make modern policies, systems and investments in their nation to maintain and encourage development, entrepreneurship and innovation.

It is believed that an economy with a diverse and dynamic collection of entrepreneurs would contribute to local and global productivity.

Over the next three years, small to medium enterprises in Asia are projected to post immense growth with the adoption of technology at work that will also lead to a new wave of connected businesses, entrepreneurs and employers.

Cloud computing, on the other hand, is continuously growing fast and will result to worldwide traffic set to increase six-fold by 20168 which will be led by the Asia Pacific region to generate the most cloud traffic at 1.5 zettabytes annually.  (FREEMAN)