Why Digital Readiness for Tech Ecosystem?
To address the digital divide and gain competitive advantage sustainably and cost-effectively, governments want to build local tech ecosystems to reliably manufacture access devices like laptops for students and teachers.
However, they face challenges, such as a lack of technical expertise and local capacity. Policymakers can enable local innovation, job creation, and improved supply chains by addressing these challenges.
Program Objectives
- Enable students to demystify laptop designing and manufacturing process
- Empower students with a deeper understanding of toolsets and relevant concepts to design a computing system
- Select engineers and industrial designers from government and local industry consortium-nominated universities
- Hardware engineers and designers enrolled in an electrical/electronics program at government-nominated universities
- Technical Skills: Various levels of laptop assembly and manufacturing ecosystem, familiarity with sustainability, energy considerations, and compliance
- Social Skills: Communication, teamwork, leadership, human-centered designs, problem-solving, and ideation
Impact Stories
Indonesia building new digital ecosystem with Intel
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, Ministry of Industry, and the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs have collaborated with academia and Intel to introduce a two-level scaffolded training program in laptop design. Hardware engineers, software engineers, and industrial designers have gained a deeper understanding of designing and manufacturing processes for laptops.
