Digital technology is an important element for the transformation process on social, cultural, political, and economic. Technology becomes the latest communication medium and affects the aspects of human life, including women,so that they can increase their contribution to the family economy. The women's awareness in utilizing technology still needs to be improved, so that holistic and comprehensive digital literacy is needed, especially the encouragement for women to learn and master digital technology in order to increase their capacity.
Through
the Stube HEMAT Multiplication program in Sumba, Elisabeth Uru Ndaya as the
program multiplicator in Sumba invited village women and tied woven group
members to gather and discuss a topic ‘the women today must be digitally
literate” (Wednesday, 4/08/2021). On this occasion, she opened insight,
awareness as well as ways of thinking to realize business potencies, learn and
know the use of digital technology such as the use of Facebook, Instagram,
Youtube and others to facilitate Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise (MSME)
business development. From the discussion, it turned out that most of the women
and youth in Tanatuku village had a Facebook account already, but only to see
the status of friends, to update status, to upload selfie photos, even they use
it as a medium for gossiping and mocking others.
This discussion helped the women and youth open their horizons that social media is not only Facebook, and they can optimize it for more useful things even to earn 'income' to support the family's economy. The woman group also reflected a year's program of women's empowerment that had been going well. They agreed on three important things as reference for future programs, covering, 1) the women of the weaving groups are ready to learn and utilize digital technology to increase existing capacity and productivity, 2) the women of the weaving group will continue to produce original Sumba woven fabrics in the form of cloth, sarongs, scarves, and other woven fabric creativities, 3) the women of the weaving group collaborate with other parties to prepare time and power to build a weaving house as a weaving learning house as well as a place to store weaving assets in the future.
The
Multiplication Program of Stube HEMAT in Sumba through the women's empowerment
program is expected to enable women in Tanatuku village to be digitally
literate and to use technology as a way to increase women's capacity. ***
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