Digitization skills are a necessity in today’s era. Telkom as a state-owned company that plays in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, it continues to launch digital ecosystem in the homeland.
In Indonesia itself, the digital ecosystem is slowly being built, including in the government in maximizing services to the community. However, there is still homework to take advantage of this digital technology.
Some of the common problems found and faced by regions related to the development of digital ecosystems, such as data integration, data dissemination, data security, to infrastructure that are still obstacles for local governments to achieve digitization.
This problem was also acknowledged by the Mayor of Malang Sutiaji which was then overcome by the use of technology, such as starting to update one data, and developing digital ecosystem in service for the past two years.
The Malang City Government (Pemkot) continues to improve itself so that data management using technology can be used optimally. In this case, Telkom as a BUMN seeks to have a stake in helping accelerate the development of the digital ecosystem in Malang City to the maximum.
“Our future development cannot be arbitrary, everything must be based on data. People who hold the data know where the data will be taken. Not only updating, but also validating data,” said Sutiaji in his statement.
This hearing aims to create collaboration between the two parties. Digital products owned by Leap-Telkom Digital are able to be a solution to the problems faced by the Malang City Government. One of them is the BigBox product, which can provide end-to-end comprehensive digital services. In addition, its use is quite easy and not difficult.
“Telkom has succeeded in accelerating one data set in Bandung and Semarang which has synergized and succeeded, so that it received an award from Bappenas (National Planning and Development Agency),” said Executive Vice President of Digital Business & Technology Telkom Saiful Hidajat.
Besides BigBox, Telkom also has PaDi UMKM products that can help promote UMKM in Malang City. Of course this will have an impact on economic progress in the city of Malang.
“Likewise, the presence of Telkom’s Indigo, as a forum for startup companies,” added Saiful.
This collaborative effort was welcomed with open arms by Sutiaji. According to him, digital products from Telkom needed as an acceleration to accelerate the digital ecosystem in Malang City.
Previously, Telkom also collaborated with Universitas Brawijaya (UB) Malang, through the signing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or memorandum of understanding and Cooperation Agreement (PKS).
This collaboration is based on a shared goal of developing digital talents and digital ecosystem in the world of education. One of the points stated in this agreement is that UB students have the opportunity to do an internship program in Telkom’s Digital Business & Technology Division, for 6-12 months as needed.
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