"The study on future skills preparation for human resource development amid transformation to the digital age responds to the ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2020. Its fifth strategy underscores the development of basic ICT skills among the ASEAN workforce to support an invidual's business sector and career advancement. The approach focuses on revamping the public and the private sector's ICT skill standards across the ASEAN region and beyond. Critical action plans include reviewing global frameworks for ICT skills and its outlook together with ASEAN's traditional ICT skills."