The Ministry of Communication and Information of the Republic of Indonesia (Kominfo RI), the National Digital Literacy Movement SIBERKREASI, and the Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada officially launched a series of Digital Intelligence Courses 2021.
The purpose of holding the courses included in the Merdeka Belajar, Kampus Merdeka (Independent Campus, Freedom to Learn; MBKM) of the Ministry of Education and Culture is to encourage the development of digital skills of the participants, especially digital literacy and digital mindset.
The Director General of Informatics Applications of the Ministry of Communication and Information, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan attended the first lecture session, which was followed by a Digital Intelligence Discussion with Iqbaal Ramadhan as a representative of Indonesia’s digital talent.
“In developing digital intelligence, we must also pay attention to ethics to what extent technology should be developed,” said Semuel when explaining the urgency of digital intelligence in his inaugural lecture Friday (20/8).
He also added that the Digital Intelligence course aims to provide the basis for ethical philosophy in technology development, especially digital intelligence.
The Digital Intelligence course with more than 9,600 participants consists of 2 classes, Basic Digital Intelligence and Advanced Digital Intelligence. In Basic Digital Intelligence, participants will learn about the digital mindset, design thinking, and the introduction of basic coding (HTML, CSS, SQL). In the Advanced Digital Intelligence Class, there are three main streams:
- Cybersecurity for All with the support of lecturers from Universitas Gadjah Mada and DRC Campus Fryslân the University of Groningen
- Data Science for Social Goods supported by teachers from AINO Indonesia
- AI with a cause supported by experts and teachers from Huawei Indonesia.
“All innovations and program collaborations are expected to build Indonesia’s Digital HR,” added Samuel.
Hopefully, this course can provide new learning experiences and improve digital literacy and knowledge so that later it can be implemented in various scientific fields that can solve various problems in Indonesia.
Source: https://www.ugm.ac.id/id/berita/21568-ugm-luncurkan-mata-kuliah-kecerdasan-digital
