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I am back!
So, I mentioned how we at Mozilla
believe that this region is where the future of
global innovation, digital innovation is going to happen over the next few years,
and I want to walk through that a little bit
on why I believe that’s the business case,
and how Mozilla can help you.
So, my job is to help Mozilla grow in this region,
and we call it Emerging Markets,
it covers Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa, Latin America.
But I want to talk today a little bit about Asia and Southeast Asia.
So, taking a step back,
Mozilla is a company that makes a variety of products and tools,
it's not just a browser,
and we wanted to make sure that you are aware
that there are so many tools for developers,
for companies, startups, partners,
that we can help you in your mission.
We've got a series of products that are out today,
whether it's part of a browser,
or a mobile app that you can use.
So, everything from Lockwise, Monitor, Send,
of course Firefox Browser.
We have multiple browsers that you can use both for desktop, iOS, Android.
And we have a new version called Firefox Lite.
And I want to spend a little bit of time on this
because this is the product of our Taipei office.
So, we've an office as I mentioned in Taipei,
and our team recently just launched this product.
It is focused for Emerging Market Countries.
And when I say Emerging Market Countries,
we want to focus on localizing the product to be successful.
So, we are venturing into turning the browser
into something more than a browser.
So, we want to create new experiences around news,
playing games, shopping,
and in the future, other areas like travel.
And so, this just became available this week,
you can find it in your Google Play Store
and hopefully you guys will enjoy this
and give us feedback on where you think you would like us to take this.
So, looking at the region of Southeast Asia,
and we're here in Taiwan,
we want to make sure that
in terms of the business context of Asia, Southeast Asia,
and I am not even considering India and China.
So, when we talk about Southeast Asia,
as a region it's the fifth largest economy in the world.
Alright?
And more than 50% of the users are under 30 years old.
And there're 700 million mobile devices in this region.
So, mobile users, I think there is more mobile devices than people.
So, it's a very digital first region
and therefore there's going to be a huge digital economy that's growing.
Every day there is almost four million new internet users
coming online in Southeast Asia.
And remember, this is not including China and India.
Okay?
It's projected that over the next five to six years
there'll be a digital economy worth US$ 200 billion
when you count it all up.
And it's growing at approximately...
it's doubling every two years.
So, when we get to 2025,
it's a US$ 200 billion digital economy in this region alone, right?
And, when you look at the trends,
it's around travel,
it’s around digital entertainment,
it's around e-commerce,
it's around fintechs.
So, I think you guys are all aware of that
as developers working for companies or startups,
but this is where it is at,
and that’s why we believe that
the future global innovation is coming in this region
and it's going to happen in this region.
So, at Mozilla we are committed to helping build this web platform
and there are a number of products and tools
that we want to make sure you are aware of,
so that you can make it part of your mission.
You can make it part of your toolset and your skillset, right?
And at Mozilla, we believe that privacy is not an option,
it has to be built into the product.
How you handle data?
How you ensure privacy of your user information?
This is all part of everything we do.
We mentioned there is a lot of resources for developers,
Right?
and it's not just developer tools such as CSS Grid, MDN Web Docs,
and a blog called MDN Hacks.
By the way, the Web Docs and Hacks
have over 14 million developers hitting our sites every single month.
So, there is a global reach
where Mozilla is creating tools and information,
and webinars, and blogs, and tutorials
on enabling an open internet
and the future of developers and innovation that's happening.
And we would love more and more developers
to really take advantage of this open free resource.
But there are also technologies where we're investing in,
like forward thinking technologies like WebAssembly,
we believe that's the future of the web
where you can write code that doesn't need a JavaScript interpreter or compiler.
And you can write code in any language,
and it will run in a web browser.
And all the major web browsers already support WebAssembly.
So, this is really the future,
we're investing heavily into this.
And we would love people to start thinking about
what does the future of the web look like,
how can we run apps inside a browser in the future.
There is other technologies like Common Voice,
where we believe that
the voice data shouldn't be held by a couple of large companies
and we're helping create a global data set
in many many languages around the world,
so that device manufacturers,
people who make apps
can leverage voice training models that is open and free to use.
So, we want to make sure that things like voice is something that is open.
And Firefox Reality,
it’s the first web VR or the first virtual reality browser.
And so, we're doing a lot of things around web VR,
creating virtual reality experiences using a browser,
and today we'll have Phil come on stage and talk about more that in detail.
We will have Gene talk about CSS Grid with you guys,
and Web of Things,
the final topic that I want to talk about is IoT.
So, we also believe that IoT should be interoperable.
We want to create an open standard for IoT,
and so we’ve created a framework
and we've a demo and a discussion today
about how you can use technologies that are open, available, free to use.
And we'd love your input and help
to make this a better product and framework for the future.
So, WebAssembly,
we just had an announcement yesterday
about a partnership between Mozilla, Intel, RedHat
talking about WebAssembly.
We believe that this is the early pioneers
in terms of companies coming together to think about
how the future of the web can be.
And a really huge announcement that just came out
and we'd love for you to just read more about it
and join us in this open source movement.
I mentioned Common Voice,
we welcome and invite anybody
who would be willing to donate your voice to a global dataset
that can be shared in local languages around the world.
So, whatever your language that you can help,
we'd really appreciate anyone to come donate your voice,
be part of this,
utilize the models that are created.
And again, you give in and you take as well.
This I think is a great movement in democratizing voice data.
So, I mentioned to you all the technologies.
I mentioned we have an office here in Taipei,
but we also support the rest of this region,
so we have hackathons,
we have webinars,
we have community members all over Asia and Southeast Asia
conducting regular meetups, hackathons, webinars
and we are really helping developers get access to create new products.
And we are also open to talking to startups.
We'd love to meet startups that are aligned to Mozilla,
that are using Mozilla technologies or open source technologies.
And we think we'd love to talk to you about how we can help.
Alright!
So, with that I want to appreciate your time,
and will hand over to the next presenter.
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