ADOC Opens New Digital e-Learning Centers in UKM Mall and Yayasan Hati Suci, Indonesia

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APECⁱ) Digital Opportunity Center (ADOCⁱ) is opening two e-Learning Centers in Jakarta Province on May 22nd and 23rd 2008. These centers are the fruits of the cooperative effort between the Indonesia's Indonesia Information Technology Federation (FTII) and the ADOC Secretariat of Chinese Taipei.

In 2006, ADOC established its Partner Office and Digital Opportunity Center at the Indonesia's Indonesia Information Technology Federation (FTII) and the Tele-Centers in the Bandung City and Yogyakarta Province. Based on this successful experience, ADOC opened an e-Commerce Center the following year in SPC Building. The new e-Learning Centers in 2008 will be ADOC's fifth and sixth centers in Indonesia.

In 2000, at the APEC Leader's Summit in Brunei, the Brunei Goals were established. These called for APEC economies to enable citizens in every community to have either individual or community access to the Internetⁱ by 2010 and thereby address the "digital divide" issue, a problem brought about by the uneven distribution of knowledge and access to information and communication technology (ICT). To assist in reaching this goal, Chinese Taipei proposed ADOC, an ambitious four-year project. APEC Leaders approved this proposal and incorporated it in the APEC Leaders' Statement of 2004.

Chinese Taipei has long established itself as one of the worldwide leaders in ICT, and by spearheading the ADOC program, it hopes to leverage its experiences and expertise in ICT and to work with private and public sectors within APEC member economies in order to fulfill the Brunei Goals.

Each of the new ADOC e-Learning Centers will have state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, including PCs, a projector, multifunctional fax machine, scanner, digital camera, and printer. The ADOC team plans to train over 450 children and 450 women in 2008. Their training courses will be designed to fit local demand, and most will be related to digital alphabetization topics.

In the past two years, the ADOC Center in Jakarta, in cooperation with FTII and INIXINDO, has trained around 3,000 persons. Thus FTII and INIXINDO have been working hard with the government and with ADOC to bridge the digital divide and ensuring that everyone in Indonesia enjoys the benefits of a digital economy.

Besides Indonesia, the other APEC member economies that are participating in the ADOC program are Chile, Peru, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. For additional information, please contact Mr. Jose Cheng, the representative of the ADOC Secretariat in Jakarta.