About Gendigital Academy
GenDigital Academy is a digital literacy advocating organization with passionate students interested in giving a chance for underprivileged children to discover the frontiers of technology in this digital era.
Vision
Propelling Indonesia's youth into the digital age.
Mission
Fostering a digitally literate society for every Indonesian citizen in 2030
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Our Purpose
The Alpha Generation is a generation whose members should be exposed to technology from a young age
However, many of these children in Indonesia are unprivileged and have never held a phone, scrolled a tablet, or searched on the Internet
Our main goal is providing these underprivileged students (2nd to 12th graders) with an opportunity to become more digitally literate, learn basic coding and develop critial thinking skills
A Letter From GenD's Founder
Hey everyone!
I’m Isaac, a kid from West Jakarta who started GenDigital Academy several years ago. Our journey started in November 2018 in a local academy for underserved children in West Jakarta, on a hot Saturday morning. As these fifteen grade school kids had little prior exposure to digital technologies, my friends and I lent our tablets and taught them the fundamentals of programming, opening their eyes to the digital world. Realizing that digital literacy was a pressing issue in the nation – especially with a deficit of 9 million digital talents ahead of Indonesia’s productive age – we knew we had to keep going.
Five years later, we have taught more than 6000 students in different locations all over Southeast Asia, impacting underserved communities from Medan to NTT, West Borneo to Phnom Penh. We’re blessed to have achieved many milestones along the way, including breaking the Indonesian record for the most number of students taught at once and representing the nation in the most recent ASEAN Youth Summit through our work in digital inclusion.
But the digital literacy journey is far from over. True to our name, we’ll relentlessly continue to raise generations upon generations of digital learners, whether it’s teaching young farmers with Sidomuncul or preparing career-shifting professionals with Tokopedia Academy. Our fire to equip the youth of Indonesia with necessary digital skills will never cease.
Let’s build a future where equal access to technology is a reality for all of us, together!
