Farm To Table The Digital Way
Dr. Vanessa Teo and Agrome IQ, the agritech startup she conceptualised while completing her PhD in Agricultural Modelling with IBM and Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and developed shortly after, are no strangers to the limelight. Five years into the journey of making...
Sharing the love with SCOT
"We have two hands, one to help ourselves and one to help others." Big shoutout to the Society of Community Outreach and Training (SCOT) who made over 6400 meals this year to be donated to frontliners during lockdown and families in need during Ramadhan. Keep up the...
Q&A With Dato Dr Isham
Throughout the local COVID-19 outbreak, all eyes were on the Minister of Health, YB Dato Seri Setia Dr. Hj Md Isham bin Hj Jaafar. Lauded for his unerring composure and openness in the daily press conferences. We were fortunate enough to sit down with him for an...
Letter To My Younger Self
Dear me, First of all, I want to say that I am so proud of you. Life hasn’t been too easy lately, and I am so sorry for that. But I can promise you this, tomorrow will be a brighter day. Right now, you are the misunderstood young girl, trying to navigate the social...
The Juice That Gives Back
Uber, Funky, Super Fresh Fruit Drinks With A Heart for Sharing Goodwill Vibrant and funky marketing, the freshest produce around, and an original menu of revitalising drinks suited to even the most sophisticated of palates, there are many reasons why The Energy Juice...
Startup Spotlight
7 Ways To Perfect Your Elevator Pitch One of the best ways to sharpen your business pitch is to train yourself in the art of elevator pitching. The idea is exactly what it sounds like. You first imagine yourself in an elevator with your potential investors. When the...
Ira Ali – Design Sprint Winner
In the buildup to production of our 11th Progresif Magazine, we decided to pull back the curtain on what goes into making a magazine - from conceptualisation to publication - for 20 young graphic designers, who got to try their hand at designing the spreads. To do...
Progress Against Plastic
Plastuck. Let’s be honest, we have a problem. The problem is getting worse. Maybe there is some merit in playing the blame game. Sure, some individuals and collectives are worse than others. If one looks at the statistics, some entire countries are worse than others....
e-Sports in Brunei
The country’s top CS:GO team is paving the way for professional esports in Brunei The Goodfellas Gaming team seem like a group of likeable guys that just wants to play first person shooter (FPS) games and win weekend tournaments. That characterisation is somewhat...
Brunei BMX
Build a Community, Build a Business: Looking into Brunei’s Growing BMX Scene When the #bwnstreetfest came around in July this year, we were hugely inspired by the seemingly endless amounts of energy and enthusiasm of Brunei’s youth. From the coffee crowd to the...
Brunei Folklore
In the last issue of our magazine (June - September 2019), we published an article about Brunei’s oral tradition, seeking to identify some of the most well known local folktales and find out what was being done to preserve these cultural artefacts. Our investigation...
Youth Empowerment Conference
Own Your Future: Experiencing the Progresif Minds Youth Empowerment Conference as a Delegate Think of one person in your life you met by accident. A serendipitous encounter. Once a stranger, now someone you hold close to your heart. A person who changed your frame of...
The Time for Progress is Now
In the coming days, Progresif and our competitors will be relaunching our brands. We’re excited about it, and here’s why you should be too. For five years since our launch in 2015, we’ve devoted ourselves to being more than mobile because we believed that you, the...
Progresif 1% Pledge To Progress
In their most recent doubling down on a long-standing commitment to corporate altruism, Progresif has announced a pledge to donate one percent of each sales transaction at Progresif-supported events to beneficiaries linked to their four Corporate Social Responsibility...
Omni Sports x Arts
With all the experience under their belt, you would be pressed to find an organisation who understands how to structure a children’s holiday camp better than Omni Sports International. Year after year, they’ve refined their recipe and have grown confident in their...