MasPorTIC is empowering the entrepreneurial mindset and digital skills of 1,000 rural children with a program called "1,2,3xTIC" in Colombian rural areas. The program is tailored to children 11-14 and teachers in rural schools. They'll create an entrepreneurial-type project based on understandings of their territories, the opportunities and challenges. We aim to build on opportunities stemming from the territories themselves, to allow children to become replicators for creating and adopting tech
In rural Colombia, only 30% of students have access to education, averaging just 6 years of schooling. Of 100 rural first graders, only 7 complete basic education. Rural areas lag in education quality, higher education access, technology adoption, and job opportunities. This disparity leaves many without the skills and opportunities to improve their socio-economic status. Rural youths often migrate to cities for better opportunities, perpetuating inequality and underdevelopment.
The program is strengthening the capacity of teachers and young participants and fostering the adoption of digital technology using softwares; soft skills such as empathy, teamwork and listening; and hard skills such as pricing; generate spaces for ideation and co-creation to enhance their creativity. Thus fostering an entrepreneurial mindset, allowing them to create solutions in line with the realities of their communities, and to help them close the gap between rural and urban education.
We hope to replicate program "1,2,3 x TIC" in other LATAM countries, since the urban-rural gap education is similar to the Colombia, and thus to reach the largest number of rural youth, to help reduce the gap in rural education, generating accessibility to digital resources for learning and soft skills, allowing them not only to improve their life project but also so they can generate solutions to problems that arise in their region and that rural communities have the capacity to problem solve
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