MYEO Digital-Leader: Campus Chapter Program

Our solution equips disadvantaged youths with professional skills centred around digital literacy and resilient learning. Delivered by youth leaders at educational institutions facilitated by the Myanmar education platform MYEO; providing support to deliver workshops developing the professional skills of youth globally, prepared for the international digital workplace and economy.

We are addressing the soft skills gap in both virtual and real world with grass-roots scalability. Disadvantaged youths do not have education system that nurture critical thinking nor have basic personal growth support as career or academic support in their education institutions. 

The soft skills which will be very much needed in the future such as critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, initiative, multicultural awareness, leadership and adaptability are not being delivered, sometimes intentionally restricted, for example in Myanmar. By bridging the gap between remote learning and real world application, we scale through talented leaders of institutions with local expertise.

Shifting towards a digital-platform economy, Myanmar and developing countries with less capacity to invest in STEM skills can diversify and participate in the future workplace through developing human capital equipped with resilient virtual workplace skills as thinkers and collaborators.

MYEO initiated the concept through a 2-week workshop series across universities in Yangon. After evaluating the feedback, we developed a franchise-support model delivering onboarding to campus leaders online to cultivate virtual workplace culture and offline mechanisms via leaders to reach youths with less-developed digital skills. We are present at 10 universities across Myanmar and have received interest to scale internationally.

Three target outcomes:

• Virtual culture: To develop digital literacy being able to work, collaborate and navigate digital tools and virtual teamworking.

• Solver: To become community leaders hosting campus events to empower their peers with new skills

• Resilient learner: Be lifelong learners capable of re-skilling in light of rapid technology changes, ensuring employability in the workforce of future.

The program provides a platform for youth-leaders to learn, and share this acquired knowledge and experience with their campus peers. Primary beneficiaries are university students across Myanmar with an outlook to broaden to schools and local communities promoting inclusive development and adaptive learning.

Receive monthly feedback from Campus Chapters regarding achievements of members in their Chapter Network e.g. received a scholarship, new internship/job opportunity - 1,000 young people receive new working opportunities as a result of our Campus Chapter Program activities by the end of 2018

Regular communication with our Campus Chapter Directors ensuring they are well supported to deliver events and quantify the reach of their activities - Be present on 150 campuses across Myanmar reaching over 100,000 higher education students and be active in 3 other geographies by the end of 2018

Track content views and impressions via Google Analytics and other tracking tools - Expand the reach of the skill development content on the MYEO digital platform to a reach of 50 million young people every month by 2020

With rapid technology changes, there is no single skill for the workforce of the future. Our solution is to empower disadvantaged youths and women to be an innovator and collaborator in virtual workplace while learning resilience skill sets that they can use now and in the future.

Reaching out to disadvantaged youths requires both online and physical methods with local knowledge. We are using digital collaborative tools such as Trello, Slack and Google Drive to cultivate a collaborative online culture. Simplicity of these tools ensures that virtual workplace culture and soft-skills can be developed in youths with limited digital literacy.

Similar to Solve, people are at the forefront of what we do at MYEO. We strongly believe in empowering societies to deliver community-led solutions to the unique problems they face. Developing a broad and agile workshop and curriculum framework, MYEO provides youth leaders with the resources and tools to empower their communities delivered through appropriate technology; be-it GSM mobile technology in internet disconnected communities or future augmented reality enhanced workshops bringing global talent to the doorstep in the scale and future development phase of the MYEO Campus Chapter Program.

MYEO was founded with the philosophy that education should be affordable and accessible for all, meaning events hosted every month at each of our Chapters will be free for attendees. With campus and community leaders hosting every event, MYEO trusts their in-depth knowledge of the local landscape of skills and cultures to ensure our resources and content is appropriately communicated according to the demands of the local economy. Where possible, we also adapt our methods (language) of communication to ensure our program is most accessible to the audience present.

During the pilot phase of the MYEO Campus Chapter Program, the activities we undertake will be cross-subsidised by the operating activities of the MYEO parent organisation. This will enable us to test our onboarding and operational processes at various campus locations across Myanmar, allowing us to pivot based on the feedback we receive moving into a growth and scale phase for our Campus Chapter Program. 

Scaling the MYEO Campus Chapter Program, we will achieve financial sustainability primarily through sponsorship and related advertising revenue. The broader MYEO organisation has close working relationships with various local and multinational organisations, with the MYEO Campus Chapter network providing an inlet for their location specific recruitment and outreach activities on campuses for which individual Chapters will develop a curated sponsorship package for these organisations.

At various university campuses across Myanmar, there have been challenges establishing a Campus Chapter due to rules at different universities requiring permission by the Rector (Vice-Chancellor) before being allowed to host events. This has delayed attempts at some universities for our pilot however we have found working closely with universities allows us to overcome some of these barriers.

 An additional challenge is the relatively limited level of digital literacy and English language, however rapidly improving, it remains a challenge for the scalability of our curriculum primarily developed in English as well as for the multinational organisations we work closely with.

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MYEO, like Solve, believe in the power of people to create a better future. Harnessing the community of changemakers at Solve with our first-hand experience at MYEO we truly believe we can implement our scalable Program for communities across the world to achieve a more secure and prosperous future, with the relevant skills for the workplace of the future. 

Our culture of inclusive innovation allows us to incorporate the ideas of Solve mentors, leaders with experience of best practice and feedback from Campus Chapters to build a valuable resource base developing a world leading scalable workplace skill development Program.

Our partners include youth-leaders from 10 universities who desire to empower themselves and their communities, a number of universities in Myanmar as well as the National League for Democracy (NLD) Education Network. We are seeking additional support from multinational partners including Unilever and PwC having received backing from AIA Group.

Nobody (to our knowledge) is doing this in the form nor the scale we envisage for this Program