BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20180529T080000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2d33efd86959b9a99fef5b9c9e836eee CATEGORIES:Stories CREATED:20190530T151415 SUMMARY:TPOA project shortlisted for the Technological Innovation of the Year Award at THE Awards Asia 2019 DESCRIPTION:
The Telecentre Programme for Orang Asli (TPOA) project, which is a r esearch endeavor under the Institute of Social Informatics and Technologica l Innovations (ISITI), was recently shortlisted for the Technological Innov ation of the Year Award at the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awa rds Asia. The Technological Innovation of the Year award recognizes the inn ovative use of technology to improve any function at a university, be that at institutional, departmental or faculty level. The TPOA project, which wa s spearheaded by a team of ISITI researchers from multiple faculties and ba ckgrounds of expertise, highlights the usage of technology at four Orang As li sites in Kelantan and Pahang, and introduced both the Semai and Temiar O rang Asli tribes to multiple programmes designed for the Orang Asli such as training, tourism, agro-business, health, education, and documentation of indigenous knowledge.
DTSTAMP:20240329T214827Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kuching:20190530T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kuching:20190530T170000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR