Hey everyone!

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      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. 

 

      5 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!