SAP believes in leading with purpose to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. Claus Andresen, President and Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia, believes that today’s digital generation, as future leaders, can help advance the agenda to drive sustainable social outcomes. And to do this, they need to beequipped withrelevantdigital capabilities.
Young people of ASEAN, for example, need to understand how big data and analytics can help them uncover insights about issues within their respective communities and propose recommendations that can address these challenges.
To address this need, SAP launched a strategic collaboration with the ASEAN Foundation in 2017. The initiatives rolled out under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) are aimed at equipping ASEAN youths with the skills they need to tackle society’s problems and thrive in the digital economy; build the capacity of innovative social enterprises that put young people on the path to successful careers and build a skilled workforce for the IT sector with training and workforce development programmes.
One of the programmes which we introduced under this MoU is the ASEAN Data Science Explorers. The competition solicited data-driven insights and ideas on the most pressing social issues in the region. The data analytics competition not only taught youth essential digital skills in harnessing the power of data but also encouraged them to focus on issues in ASEAN across six UN SDGs, namely: good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth, and sustainable cities and communities.
Data has become the new life force that drives the world today. Businesses have always leveraged their company or customer information to make better, smarter, real time, fact-based decisions – from developing a new product, moving into a new market or simply redefining an old process.
New technologies, an increasing number of connected devices, combined with better data collection tools and processes are leading to an exponential increase in the volume and types of data available. And this includes data around social issues.
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