Across the digital corridors linking South and Southeast Asia, a quiet but consequential realignment is underway. ASEAN and India — long connected by IT service flows and diaspora networks — are now contemplating something more structurally ambitious: a shared digital economy built on compatible rules, interoperable systems, and integrated value chains rather than simple export relationships. The question being posed is not merely one of trade volumes, but of whether two of the world's most dynamic digital regions can harmonize enough of their regulatory architecture to act, in meaningful ways