Yogyakarta, September 17th 2020—The first lecture of the Digital Intelligence Class was officially opened on Monday (14/9). This event was opened by the Vice Rector for Cooperation and Alumni of UGM Dr. Paripurna, S.H., M.Hum., LL.M. which was followed by a Digital Intelligence Discussion with the main speaker, Prof. Pratikno as the Minister of State Secretary, Prof. Erwan Agus Purwanto the Dean of FISIPOL UGM, and the Special Staff of the Minister of Communication and Information of Republic of Indonesia in the field of Human Resources and Digitalization, Dr. Dedy Permadi.
This first lecture also became the opening of the class of Digital Intelligence, which was held by Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM cooperated with Telkom Sigma, Cyber Mantra, and Majik, it was also supported by the Ministry of State Secretariat of Republic of Indonesia, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, the Ministry of State Owned Enterprises. There were 1000 applicants for this Digital Intelligence Course that can access the class according to the pre-test results and they could begin a new experience of studying on the Digital Intelligence platform (https://cerdasdigital.id). This class is managed by FISIPOL, CfDS, and Forbill Institute and collaborated with national and global technology companies, such as Aino, Bukalapak, Cisco, Dicoding, Geekhunter, Huawei, IBM, Iykra, Oracle, Progate, and Redhat. “With the presence of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, competition became so massive, so that various technological innovations and digital intelligence must be able to be utilized as a means to develop ourselves in order to solve the problems and to be able to compete in the global world, Prof. Paripurna explained in his opening speech.
In his keynote speech, Prof. Pratikno emphasized the importance of skills to respond to digital information development. “The use of digital technology has penetrated all lines of our lives. In everyday life, all have used digital technology. Digital devices and applications also continue to develop, so that skills are needed to support this development,” Prof. Pratikno said. “The development of these skills is not only based on the development of technical science, but also requires transdisciplinary abilities from various scientific disciplines,” he added.
After the opening by Prof. Paripurna and the keynote speech of Prof. Pratikno, the first lecture was continued by the discussion with the Dean of FISIPOL UGM, Prof. Erwan Agus Purwanto and the Special Staff of the Minister of Communication and Information of Republic of Indonesia in the field of Human Resources and Digitalization, Dr. Dedy Permadi. In that panel discussion, both of the speakers emphasized again about the importance of developing interdisciplinary student competencies to be able to face the challenges of the development of digital transformation.
As a course that will last for one full semester, the lecture is carried out through the online method using the Smart Digital platform (https://cerdasdigital.id) which was opened for the UGM students and public in general. As one of the programs offered in the Permata Sakti scheme, this course is expected to bring novelty to learning experiences as well as new knowledge for class participants spread across Indonesia.