Asia Pacific Digital Thinking Conference 2021

The 2021 Digital Mindset Conference is attended by more than 50 partners from 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Japan and the Pacific Islands, as well as representatives from UNICEF South Asia. The main conference lasts half a day (September 29) and the workshop lasts half a day (September 30).

Through this conference, Facebook connects partners in the region together, sharing experiences and successes in the We Think Digital program. The sharing of representatives from countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, Vietnam... about the projects being implemented is a good experience for partners to effectively implement the WTD program in the specific context of each country and for different subjects such as children, women, students, teachers and lecturers.

In particular, the conference also discussed issues that countries are facing during the COVID pandemic, including developing digital capacity for citizens to adapt well in the context of the pandemic and the digital environment. Vietnam has 3 representatives: the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnet-ICT Company and Hoc Mai.

The University of Social Sciences and Humanities is a strategic partner of Facebook in the field of higher education, with a project to develop digital capacity for students. The goal of the project is to equip students with knowledge and skills in digital capacity and thinking in a digital environment, thereby helping students to live, work, and study positively, proactively and safely in the digital world.

Project contents include:

• Survey to assess students' digital competence
• Building a digital competency framework for students: knowledge, skills and self-responsibility
• Building a digital literacy guidebook
• Integrating Digital Competency into Information Competency course to teach students across the school
• Digital Competency Competition for Students
• Building and implementing activities of Digital Me Club: enhancing capacity for students
• Building advanced digital competency courses for students majoring in information management
• Organize seminars, training sessions, workshops

Details of the program and its component projects:

• Program Fanpage:https://www.facebook.com/DigiLitUSSH
• Program website:http://sim.ussh.vnu.edu.vn/vi/news/nang-luc-so/
• Digital Humanities Club:https://www.facebook.com/usshdigitalmeclub