KUALA LUMPUR: The Asean Foundation and SAP Malaysia have opened applications for the Asean Data Science Explorers (ASEANDSE) 2019 to harness the power of data in solving developmental issues in the region.
Targeted at tertiary students across the 10 Asean member states, the collaboration programme between the ASsean Foundation and SAP is aimed at galvanising youth activism among Asean students.
It is also aimed at increasing student information and communication technology competencies and transforming them into innovators capable of delivering data-driven recommendations and solutions to contribute to the achievement of Asean Community goals.
To achieve its objective, the initiative integrates two key activities which are a series of enabling sessions and competition in data analytics.
The competition will be held from February to October 2019, kick-starting with informative enabling sessions organised for students and lecturers in local institutions of higher learning across all member states to improve their skills in data analytics and knowledge.
It will be followed by a national and regional data analytics competition where successful youth applicants will converge to present data-driven proposals highlighting issues in Asean across six United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Interested students need to form teams of two and register for the competition and submit their proposals. One participating team from each member state will stand a chance to be crowned as the national finalist before advancing to compete in the regional finals.
At the regional finals, 10 finalists will be given the opportunity to present their winning ideas to a panel of judges which consists of distinguished representatives from the Asean Foundation, SAP and various government officials and selected NGO.
Coinciding with Thailand’s Asean Chairmanship in 2019, the regional finals will be held in Bangkok on Oct 16. Applications for the programme will be closed on May 10.
Since its introduction in 2017, the ASEANDSE empowered over 5,000 youths from 287 higher education institutions and recognised by 10 Asean leaders, Senior Officials Meeting on Youth, and Senior Officials Meeting on Education for its contribution to youth development.
Further information on the programme is available at https://aseandse.org. – Bernama
