Future Digital Inclusion Project:

To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion project that has a core aim to support and help residents of Auckland Region to get the basic computer skills and to effectively use the internet. This project is funded by Rise and Shine Charitable Trust New Zealand. This year To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion workshop for ethnic to Get Online Week from June 2021 – 2022.

WHAT IS TO RISE AND SHINE

ETHNIC COMMUNITIES FUTURE

DIGITAL INCLUSION ONLINE WEEK?

More than 2 years ago, was first marked out to bring digital inclusion to national attention in the NZ – and Get Online Week was born with very few members. Since then the campaign has grown into a week-long, annual celebration, with number of events taking place each year in communities across the NZ, and across the globe giving everyone the chance to find the help they need to improve their digital skills.

What is To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future

Digital Inclusion Online Week?

This year, Get Online Week will take place from June 2021 – 2022.

Through the Rise and Shine Charitable Trust, and number of other venues community centers, job centers, libraries and more – number of events will take place in communities across the Auckland region, and across the globe using by using social media plate form, helping everyone move forward on their digital journey.

Get Online Week Objectives

Promote Future Digital Inclusion IT based project.

Build the new links to rise and shine ethnic community’s future digital inclusion program with new partners in the communities (for Children, Youth, adults and elderly people).

Recruit new potential participants for FDI & SCVL projects.

Arrange online sessions in the community.

To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion to be a part of this Reginal & social media based global event.

Get Online Week Plan

The plan started by registering to Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion on the Get Online Week website and then contacting some partners in North, South, East, West and Central Auckland region North, South, East, West and Central Auckland region to set up arrangements to take part in Get Online Week. Next, we requested marketing packs from partner organization to ensure as our events will high profile and in line with regional, national and international advertising.

After confirming things with our partners, we created our event schedule on the Online page of the Get Online Week website and also designed a poster and a flyer to communicate the event locally.

Event Activities

Get Online Week take place in five community venues to ensure cover across different areas from the Auckland region, and also to target different groups of people to ensure we achieved the goals of the event. The next slide shows the event schedule.

Event Activities

How did we promote the event?

Get Online Week will be promoted through To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion project, Facebook and Twitter as well as through printing a poster and a flyer. Also, we used our staff and volunteers email list to communicate the events to their networks. The next slide showed some of the ways the event was communicated.

Venues hosted Get Online Week:

Parnell Road, Auckland

From first Monday 07th of June 2021, the first day of Get Online week at the Auckland City Central, our drop in started at 10:30 am and we provided our service for 20 participants.

People enjoyed the event and gave very good feedback about the information they got and how they had shared a lovely time, and we took some photos to document Get Online Week at To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion Auckland City Central workshop.

Venues hosted Get Online Week:

Takanini Hall

Under the To Rise and Shine Community Digital Inclusion program the Refugee and Asylum Seekers Community will be also participate in the second day of this year’s Get Online Week. It will be at South Auckland Community Hall where there will be weekly ARC and other community members also takes place. Different people from different backgrounds attended and will also visit the (Foreign Direct Investment) FDI program To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion program and tried different online activities and registered on Learn My Way online basic IT training and couching. Also, they shared their positive feedback and photos.

Venues hosted Get Online Week:

Circle of Friends / Remuera Community Centre

Cyrus Rose (GIS Specialist) & Irfan Nazar (Web Developer) Muzi Lee (Website Designer & Builder / UIUX Designer / Graphic Designer) from the To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion team will provide good support to other trainer to assist with the high numbers of participants and helped to makes day three to successful the event. At the East Auckland Parnell Road Community place a group of nearly 25 took part in Get Online Week activities. Some started to use the internet with the support of Cyrus, Irfan, Muzi, Monica, and some will sign up to the Learn My Way training and performed sessions on basic IT skills. The session will really be engaging with enthusiastic people who are very responsive. They will also enjoy the refreshments and take part in some photos with the Community of To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion team.

Venues hosted Get Online Week:

North Auckland Sunnynook Community Creche

The north Auckland Community to Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion project will start at North Auckland Sunnynook Community Creche early at 10:00 am, preparing the place to receive visitors coming to find out more about Get Online Week. Cyrus, Monica, Anila, Irfan and other Volunteers will be the first to come and start to read the posters and get information about the project and its objectives in improving people’s IT skills. Also, if someone from community will show a desire to join the sessions and they want signed up to Learn about My Way. At the end the participants thanks to Community of To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion and will share some photos and positive feedback for Rise and Shine Charitable Trust.

Venues hosted Get Online Week:

West Auckland Te Atatu South Community Hall

The last day of the week of Get Online Week will be at West Auckland region Te Atatu South Community Hall and Messy Community Hall. The venues are ideal for hosting the event. This centre is will one of the Future Digital Inclusion venues to the Learn My Way training taught to different learners across west Auckland region. There will be new participants will join the session and got some useful information about using the internet and other online skills.

Cyrus, Muzi, Monica and Other Volunteers from West Auckland region will also help to make the day very successful.

The impact of the event on our project targets

Probable Registered numbers from Community Get Online Week, Promote,  Information, Recruit, Activity, and People benefited from the end of the Project. 

To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion Project is a collaborative initiative of The Rise and Shine Charitable Trust, and seeks to train Ethnic Communities “Children, Youth, Adults, elderly people” and young professionals who need to develop in demand digital skills to enhance their marketplace competitiveness while contributing to solving societal problems.

The Future Digital Inclusion training program is aimed at nurturing and equipping Auckland’s ethnic Communities with practical 21^st century skills to increase employability as well as entrepreneurship. The program will be virtual and designed to be intensive, engaging and project based, so that beneficiaries are well equipped to deliver on market demands and innovate solutions to societal problems. Trainees will also be supported to become tech entrepreneurs who develop new locally relevant products and services.

Online learning resources and content will be provided to participants for guided learning as well, while weekly Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) sessions with designated industry experts will be held to assure assimilation and practical application of knowledge acquired per week.

The program is FREE, but you must pass the selection phase by meeting the criteria…

Target Number of Beneficiaries

130 – 150 Beneficiaries will be enrolled for the training.

At the end of the training, students should have:

• Built a personal portfolio per their chosen track.
• Obtained certificate of learning from the training workshops sections.
• Project will Increased the employability potential in the ethnic communities of Auckland region.
• Completed a relevant project that solves a problem within their community or personal level.

How the Training Will Benefit You

At the end of the Training, successful beneficiaries should expect to:

Acquire top digital skills in any of 5 specializations as recommended by popular employer feedback and LinkedIn Learning as most in-demand in today’s work environment

Meet and learn from experienced industry experts for professional mentorship

Acquire Completion Certificates to serve as the first proof of proficiency in the learned skill

Develop market-relevant digital skills and able to deploy same towards solving societal problems

Be exposed to vital soft skills, employability, and entrepreneurship training that will combine to increase the employability and work readiness of successful beneficiaries.

Rise and Shine Charitable Trust is committed to provide targeted, personalized digital skills training to the people of Auckland Region.

We aim to improve;

• Health & wellbeing.
• Digital skills that will empower communities throughout Auckland Region

Role of connectivity in the time of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a newfound sense of urgency to the digital inclusion agenda. While the crisis has enabled hundreds of millions to work, learn and connect digitally, it is easy to see how it has also exacerbated the situation for far too many people in vulnerable situations around the world. Now, more than ever, connectivity should be at the core of all national and international priorities from healthcare, education, government services and beyond. This new normal presents an unprecedented opportunity for cross-sector collaboration to bridge the digital divide and enable unforeseen growth opportunities for the economy and society.

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has generated a fundamental change in the context connectivity and tech players operate in, as societies are increasingly recognizing the critical importance of digital infrastructure and services. By end of April 2020, 70% of countries globally were faced with some level of stay-at-home requirements, a majority of which were strict lockdowns. During this period, internet use grew by as much as 70%, the use of remote desktop by 40% and the use of virtual collaboration tools by more than 600%.2 Connectivity and tech players have played a key role in supporting this crisis with short-term response actions, as detailed in the Digital Development Joint Action Plan and Call for Action published in April 2021 by the World Bank, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), GSMA and World Economic Forum.

However, beyond the instrumental role held by the industry in the short term, the most important enabler allowing the world to operate during these lockdowns has been the substantial infrastructure roll-out and investments made by the industry since the internet boom. Operators and infrastructure providers have invested trillions of dollars over the past 20 years to create the digital infrastructure coverage and capacity required to sustain lifestyles during COVID-19. From almost nothing two decades ago, today close to 45% of global households have a fixed broadband subscription, of which close to half enjoy fibre connections and speeds, but the good news is in New Zealand 75 percent of New Zealanders can now connect to fibre as of December last year, increasing to 87 percent by December 2022 as per Statista & Chorus. In the same timeframe, mobile coverage has risen from 12% to 97% of the world’s population, with more than 85% enjoying 4G and 5G technology in New Zealand. This solid digital infrastructure has enabled the continuation of key activities, allowing an estimated Over 50 percent of employees in New Zealand have flexible work hours, allowing them to start and finish work at different times each day, and one-third have worked from home, Stats NZ. We corrected the proportion of men and women employees who worked from home, from 43 to 33 percent and 42 to 35 percent respectively. supporting close to around million jobs. A similar number of school-aged kids and university/higher education students – millions of, respectively, have also been able to maintain access to education remotely. While this represents around 20 per cent of our students live in parts of Auckland that score 9 or 10 on the New Zealand student population, it is weighted towards developed economies.

Connectivity also had a significant impact on managing health-related issues during the crisis; technology was used for pandemic planning, surveillance, testing, contact tracing, quarantine and remote healthcare. Telemedicine consultations now grew more than in 10 years, which played a key role in keeping lines down at hospitals and maintaining patients in good health. While some sectors have been badly hit (e.g. travel & tourism and hospitality, import & export of dairy product), others have been able to grow during the lockdowns, directly enabled by connectivity, such as e-commerce, food delivery and online groceries, with positive spillover effects to adjacent industry players, all of which would have been impossible few years ago.

General Requirements

To be considered for any of the basic and intermediate skills training, interested beneficiaries must meet both the general and specific requirements.

• Grit to keep on learning.
• Willingness to learn new concepts.
• Must be able to commit at least 15 hours to learn each week throughout the program duration.
• Access to a working computer and a reliable internet connection.

Programs:

Scale Your Future – By Learning Trending Digital Skills Today

Basic Management and Financial Analytics

Course Duration: 10 weeks

Basic managers are catalysts for change. Learn how to manage personal family or small projects from beginning to end using proven basic project management techniques and Microsoft based learning. You will also learn the basic personal financial analysis skills for evaluating current and historical economic of your and small business data to identify trends that influence business decisions. You will gain the skills that make a successful project manager with keen financial competence, including understanding financial statements, working with economic data, and analytical skills necessary for managing basic and simple to complex projects and initiatives.

Basic Digital Marketing and Sales Representative

Course Duration: 8 weeks

In this training, the ethnic will learn to use basic analytical and tactical skills to help grow and develop new opportunities for small businesses as a digital marketer – from the basic marketing plans and content basic strategy to basic SEO and basic analytics. In addition, they will learn core concepts and skills necessary in today’s selling environment from negotiation and closing strategies to selling with authenticity. Recognize that selling is a partnership. Develop sales skills, people skills, and ability to create emotional engagement and earn the trust of others.

Basic Data Analytics

Course Duration: 12 weeks

The basic Data analysts examine information using data analysis tools and help their teams develop insights and business strategies. Beneficiaries will learn skills in math, statistics, communications, and working with tools designed to do data analytics and data visualization. Explore this high demand career by learning the skill today.

Basic Product Design

Course Duration: 10 weeks

The basic Graphic designers create visual concepts that inspire, inform, and transform. Beneficiaries will learn to use industry-leading tools to build innovative basic design projects and discover the skills needed to become an in-demand visual thinker and communicator.

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User management and monitoring tools for your managers, ground staff and facilitators to reach out to your distributed communities and drive adoption and engagement of your learning programs.

basic digital skills our ethnic communities need the most

The basic digital skills you should start with:

• Device setup: Turning on (and off), logging in and connecting to wifi on a phone, tablet, laptop and computer.
• Digital communication: Using email and applications like Slack and WhatsApp to communicate with team members.
• Digital collaboration: Uploading, sharing and editing documents online using cloud-based applications like Google Drive and Dropbox.
• Cybersecurity: Understanding the basic security risks associated with viruses, unsecured sites, phishing and information theft.
• Information processing: Seeking, verifying, organizing and summarizing online information.
• Data storage: Storing and backing up documents and data on the cloud, and/or via a backup drive.
• HR processes: Making and receiving payments, submitting leave forms, signing HR forms and completing performance appraisal surveys via HR applications, like BambooHR.
• eLearning: Using a learning management system (LMS) to engage in training.

Why above-mentioned digital skills important for our community’s future?

We understand that what are the most important digital skills are required to our ethnic community’s. But why are they so important? Explaining all the reasons to invest in digital skills training and development for our communities would transform this object into a short book. And, we know, we’re not exactly flush in the ‘time’ department. So, let’s focus on the top ones.

Our Digital skills trainings are very attractive and some of retains talent

While the quick and turbulent advance of technology might strike a little fear into the best of communities, it’s important to remember that our communities are affected, too. In fact, many ethnicities are worry that their jobs will be replaced by chatbots, online self-service and automation. So, they’re looking for opportunities to upgrade their technical experience.

This means that an investment in digital skills training for our communities is bound to get the attention of people who are eager to learn and are accepting of change. And who wouldn’t want that kind of employee? Plus, providing regular opportunities for your existing tech talent to learn new skills is likely to earn their loyalty, and keep the talent poachers at bay.

Reducing digital skills gap and increases efficiency of our ethnicities

We believe that productivity is the one of the top benefits of digital transformation for our communities. This could be due to a more motivated and skilled workforce. But it’s also likely that the proper use of digital systems makes businesses and life more efficient.

We teach about applications like Google Drive and Slack enable teams to collaborate and communicate without having to leave their place. Tools like Asana and Trello reduce the likelihood of redundancies and unallocated tasks. Video-conferencing software like Join.me, Duo, Face Time, Zoom, Viber, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Skype allow meetings to take place without traveling.

In other words, when our communities (Especially elderly people they) know how to use these technical tools (and all their features) correctly, they’re likely to be more efficient. And efficiency means our communities gets more done, in less time, and with fewer resources.

Continuous digital workforce training is our communities #1 competitive advantage

Most people or companies have been competing on a global level for some time now because of Covid-19. The smallest of leather shoe factories in New Zealand are able to compete with big, flashy stores in New Zealand, all by having an online presence. So, with the competition growing bigger and fiercer, it’s no wonder digital transformation is a competitive opportunity.

Let’s use an eLearning training provider as an example. Many companies create and sell online short courses. However, the first companies to leverage interactive elements, like branching scenarios and interactive infographics, created a superior learning experience. This was their competitive advantage.

Conclusion

The key to surviving the Fourth Industrial Revolution is (drum roll) digital skills training and development for communities and individual. This is how we can ensure that our innovating at the forefront of digital transformation.

Provide regular opportunities for our ethnic communities to learn and develop new technical skills, and then give them the confidence and space they need to turn those skills into ideas. It’s up to them to create the talent they’ll need in the future, and through continuous training, to keep the talent they already have.

Feedback on To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion Get Online Week

• To Rise and Shine Charitable Trust support helped to make it a successful event.
• The marketing pack helped to communicate Get Online Week.
• The ethnic Community to Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion digital social media platform played a big role in promoting the event.
• The ethnic Community’s to Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion staff and volunteer’s role is important for coordinating things and communicating through their networks.

• The service we will provide to the public will be foundational skills/basic tasks and internet skills.
• People heard about Get Online week from the Radio FM106.2, all social medias, word of mouth and posters and leaflets.
• The online map link to every event also made a good impact because it

helped people to visit.

• People who will get benefit from Get Online Week program will be from different groups but targeted one will be Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh but not to restrict to other communities especially young probational unemployed, older people, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.
• Get Online Week helped to reach new people, engage with new partners/groups, helped learners to try new skills, helped to raise awareness of ethnic community To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion / Rise and Shine Charitable Trust and also to raise awareness of digital skills and digital inclusion.
• 4 potential new partners for To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital inclusion have been engaged with us as a result of our upcoming Get Online Week Workshops are ahead.
• Posters of To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital inclusion are publishing on Facebook, keep announcements on every Sunday and keep sending them email news update about this project and Posters will be distributed during the drop in in the five venues in North, South, East, West and Central Auckland region.

Community Matters NZ.

Funding Request:

Ethnic Communities Digital Inclusion Fund R-DIF-2021-170181

Dear Sir/Madam,

The Rise and Shine Charitable Trust – New Zealand respectfully requests a grant of $200,000 for our ethnicity-based program To Rise and Shine Ethnic Communities Future Digital Inclusion Pilot Project.

Through this project, seeks to train Ethnic Communities “Children, Youth, Adults, elderly people” and young professionals who need to develop in demand digital skills to enhance their marketplace competitiveness while contributing to solving societal problems. Please feel free to contact me at +64 9 212 5555, +64 20 4000 5004, or [email protected] [email protected], or www.rsworshipministries.org if you have further questions.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Cyrus Leonard Rose

Executive Director

BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS

Bank Account:

Bank Name:                             ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited

Account Name:                        The Rise and Shine Worship Ministries NZ,         

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Account Number:                     06-0878-0790338-00

Branch Code:                            0878

Branch Name:                          ANZ Bank in Westcity, Auckland

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