Organized under the Korea-ASEAN Digital Innovation Flagship Project (KADIF), the competition was jointly implemented by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (NIPA), the ASEAN Secretariat, and Cradle Fund Sdn. Bhd. (Cradle) under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) of Malaysia. The competition is funded by the ASEAN-Korea Cooperation Fund through the Government of the Republic of Korea.