Our Impact
Through collaborations with governments, local partners, and volunteers across the region, Go Digital ASEAN successfully delivered digital skills training to small business owners and workers, empowering them to participate and thrive in the digital economy. Our local implementing partners brought deep-rooted experience in working with rural and hard-to-reach communities, particularly in the informal sector and industries such as agriculture and tourism.
Launched in 2020, the first phase of the program trained over 225,000 MSMEs and workers from underserved communities in ASEAN, with a special emphasis on women. The second phase expanded the program’s reach, providing advanced and specialized training on business and financial literacy, digital marketing, cybersecurity, and carbon footprint reduction to an additional 215,896 MSME owners and workers across the region.
Go Digital ASEAN 2 in Numbers
215,896 MSMEs trained and equipped with digital skills to grow their business online
Go Digital
141,301
trained
Explore Digital
31,156
trained
Grow Digital
43,439
trained
42 local partners engaged
2,023 trainers mobilized
138,009 women trained
Meet Silinphone, a small convenience store owner in Vientiane, Laos. With COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns, her sales plummeted. Customers began calling her directly to ask for a delivery option, but Silinphone had no idea how to do so.
Through joining the Go Digital ASEAN training on digital maps, Silinphone learned how to set up her store’s delivery service and even created a social media site reach more buyers.
The program is implemented by The Asia Foundation with funding from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, and endorsement from the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (ACCMSME).
Go Digital ASEAN is an initiative under the Future Skills Alliance, a broad coalition of partners from both the public and private sectors working together to deliver future skills at scale to the region’s most marginalized.
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Maximizing Business Potential Using Digital Tools and Insights
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