The soft launch of Skills for Inclusive Digital Participation, 21 October 2021

SIDP Launch 

The SIDP soft launch was organised on 21 October 2021 as part of Rural ICT Camp organised by Common Room Networks Foundation, FCDO Digital Access Program’s partner in Indonesia.

The launch initiative is an informative session for partners and wider society in relations to the programme implementation planning to share learning opportunity on digital skills particularly for excluded groups youth from lower social economics, disability and women in Indonesia. The project is currently opening opportunity to local champion to be trained as digital trainers and in return they will train digital skills to their respective communities.

The launch event consisted of information sharing and discussion sessions with the following speakers and attendees:

  • Representative of Ministry of Communications & Informatics; Ministry of women empowerment and child protection
  • Chris Agass Digital Access Program Lead Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office
  • Hugh Moffatt, British Council Country Director
  • NGOs & Communities particularly in Eastern part of Indonesia
  • Duta Digital from smart village – Kemendes program
  • SIDP partners & consultants
  • Civic Society/Community Organizations in digital literacy 

Watch the online launch here.

SIDP Implementation in Indonesia (April 2021 - June 2022)

Skills for Inclusive Digital Participation (SIDP) works with people who are missing out on the opportunities to access jobs and services that digital provides, enabling them to take part in digital activities safely, to access new resources and to improve their livelihoods. It creates opportunities for digitally excluded individuals to develop the skills they need to participate fully in the digital economy and in wider society.

SIDP delivered the training to maximise participation by the targeted beneficiaries. For example, during weekends and public holidays, or at different times of the day. Nursing rooms for mothers and rooms for children were also provided. A focus on inclusion ensured ramps were provided in training venues, sign language interpreters were used, and inclusive manuals were developed in co-creation with beneficiaries and digital experts.

In Indonesia, the project ran in Papua, West Papua, Maluku, North Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara and South Sulawesi. Targets achieved to date:

  • 103 community level trainers trained;
  • 3202 participants trained in basic inclusive digital skills; and
  • 1130 participants trained in intermediate general digital skills.

Four training manuals including annexes were developed by Expert Level Trainers as training materials for the project.

  1. Trainer Training Manual: Your Guide to Effective Training;
  2. Basic Digital Skills;
  3. Intermediate General Digital Skills; and 
  4. Intermediate Digital Skills for Economic Opportunity
Sign language interpreter accompanies learners with hearing problem in intermediate digital skills training in Jayapura.
Sign language interpreter accompanies learners with hearing problem in intermediate digital skills training in Jayapura.
Community level trainer is introducing laptop to basic digital skills training learner.
Community level trainer is introducing laptop to basic digital skills training learner.
Country Director British Council, Hugh Moffatt, attending ToT Community Level Trainers Sorong in April 2022

SIDP Implementation in Indonesia (July 2022 - December 2022)

The project has been extended and ran in South Sulawesi, Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara and Bali. 

SIDP Training Manual Dissemination and use

The British Council is delighted to be able to share these training manuals to more than 30 other organisations (government, schools, university, NGOs and community) with experience and expertise in inclusive digital literacy. They will be able to make use of the materials in your own skills development activities with Learner and Trainers.

The manuals can be freely copied and used, and British Council must be acknowledged as their source. The UK Aid logo (as shown on the cover of each of the training manuals) must also be used, to acknowledge that the materials have been produced with UK Aid funds. The materials must not be used for commercial gain.

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