ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA)
A negotiated regional agreement among ASEAN's ten member states, described as the first region-wide comprehensive digital economy agreement; negotiations concluded 27 to 29 May 2026 at the Second Meeting of the 57th ASEAN Senior Economic Officials Meeting, with the text in legal scrubbing and signing targeted at the 49th ASEAN Summit in November 2026. Not yet in force as of August 2026.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A negotiated regional agreement among ASEAN's ten member states, described as the first region-wide comprehensive digital economy agreement; negotiations concluded 27 to 29 May 2026 at the Second Meeting of the 57th ASEAN Senior Economic Officials Meeting, with the text in legal scrubbing and signing targeted at the 49th ASEAN Summit in November 2026. Not yet in force as of August 2026.
A region-wide digital economy agreement whose negotiations concluded 27 to 29 May 2026 but which remained in legal scrubbing, unsigned, as of 15 August 2026, with signing targeted at the 49th ASEAN Summit in November 2026. Cited in a governance memo only as a review trigger until it is signed and in force.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- ASEAN Data Flows · Consent, Purpose, and the Law of Data, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- ASEAN is not one market: the regional HQ problem · The World's Rulebooks, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
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