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Experts call for increasing rural area digital connectivity to alleviate poverty

by Tech Teen August 5, 2021July 31, 2021
written by Tech Teen August 5, 2021July 31, 2021
Experts call for increasing rural area digital connectivity to alleviate poverty

Cross sectors collaboration is needed to lower the costs of rural area connectivity and improve digital literacy, which will help to close the digital divide and drive economic recovery during the pandemic. This was the crux of the presentations by experts at the webinar recently organized by the Financial Times and Huawei on “Strategies for Addressing the Asia-Pacific Digital Divide – Increasing Connectivity to Drive Economic Recovery.”
The Asia Pacific is speeding up for digital transformation and underpinned by dynamic markets and young population. The significant rift of digital access yet hinders wider shares of digital benefits, which in turn leads to slower recovery from the pandemic. ICT leverages fundamental ways to drive economic rebound.
“This starts with fair access to digital services specifically on connecting the unconnected,” said Michael Macdonald, Chief Digital Officer of Huawei Asia Pacific, who conveyed Huawei’s agenda on consolidating three major pillars to tender digital divide in the region: ICT connectivity, talents’ vitality, and green technology.
The importance of digital inclusion is echoed by Yin Haitao, professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Antai College of Economics and Management, whose newly released a report on using ICT solutions to promote economic development and alleviate poverty.
The report, named “Digital Involvement and Poverty Alleviation: A Huawei Approach,” was co-authored by Yin and Chris Marquis, Professor at Samuel C. Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.
The domain of corporate sustainability has long faced the challenge of making projects of this nature financially viable. The RuralStar program aims to lower the ICT costs through innovation so that local carriers are able to offer commercially viable digital connection services in remote and rural areas, according to the report.
To reach underdeveloped areas and improve digital coverage, Huawei initiates RuralStar program together with local operators globally, including in Thailand and Indonesia, since 2017. This solution replaces traditional towers with simple poles and enabling a shift from diesel generator power to solar power. By the end of 2020, the RuralStar program had been implemented in over 60 countries, with 50 million people benefited from this initiative.
The ICT talent shortage is one of the key fields revealing the digital divide. Apart from agreeing with vendors like Huawei’s approach on digital infrastructure access, labor is another prior concern. On this concern, Poon King Wang, Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), called for long-term strategies and sustained support to upskill people across generations and ensure the wellbeing of workers in digital transformation.
Sofia Shakil, Director of the Economic Programs, Asia Foundation, addressed the negative impact of the pandemic on women unemployment and the urgency to invest in skills building.
In 2017, Huawei, the Bangladesh Government (ICT Division), and Robi Axiata jointly launched the Digital Training Bus project to bring digital skills to women in the heart of rural Bangladesh. More than 60,000 women had received training till now, and 160,000 more will benefit from it by 2023.
To lessen the imminent labor deficit in APAC, 400,000 more are expected to be digitally upskilled in the next five years through Huawei educational flagship programs such as Seeds for the Future and ASEAN Academy, according to Michael MacDonald.
At the webinar, experts from different fields share their views of building an ecosystem cohesively, including government, industry, and thought-leaderships from third parties to drive digital inclusion.

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