ISSN 2348-1196 (print) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research ISSN 2348-120X (online) Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp: (41-52), Month: January - March 2021, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
Making the Malaysian University-of-the-Future Relevance in the Digital Era: Improving the Wellbeing of B40 Youth in Tanzania through Digital Entrepreneurship Education and International Community Engagement Programs Muhsin Mustafa Hassan1, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan2 1,2 1,2
Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology
International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1,2
Authors Emails: mohsn.mustafa@gmail.com, arad@iium.edu.my
Abstract: Unemployment is the one of the major challenges faced many countries around the globe, the large part of the problem can be seen in youth. Tanzania as a developing country and a member of UN faced a vital challenge of youth unemployment. It is generally assumed that the Higher learning institution produce graduate with the mismatch skills and knowledge as compared to the demand of the current job markets. The advancement of technology can renovate the traditional educational system into the university-of-the future that can produce the balance graduate through the utilization of digitizing entrepreneurship education program and community engagement that can facilitate the problem unemployed graduate youth and improve their well-being. The paper is adopting design thinking approach in developing business model of UotF. BMC and VPC models utilized to ideating and formulating the conceptual business model that harness the digital capability and community engagement in improving the well-being of B40 Youth in Tanzania. The approach includes conducting interviews and literature reviews for understanding the needs, challenges and key problems. The objective is to enhance the well-being B40 unemployed youth with skills sets required for decent jobs and stimulate the economic growth through DEEP CE. Keywords: Tanzania, Reduced Poverty, SDGs, University-of-the-Future, Community Engagement, Digital Platform, Youth unemployment.
I. INTRODUCTION Youth unemployment is still one of the major key problems in all countries worldwide. According to United Nations, Youth unemployment is the situation where by 15-24-year olds are searching for a job and don‘t find them. According ILO, there are more 64 million youths suffering from unemployment crisis, while 145 million employed youths do not have decent jobs and live in poverty [1]. The youth unemployment problem worldwide is associated with rapid population growth, limited work availability and increase in criteria for securing a job which include limited work experience. Tanzania as a developing country produces to about 1 million graduates every year but most of them neither are not able secure decent jobs nor engage in self-employment, thereby increasing the rate of unemployment, dependence, poor health, well-being and poverty. To tackle this problem, each member of United Nations including Tanzania from 2015 is striving
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