The Competition
About The Competition
ASEAN Data Science Explorers (ASEAN DSE) competition is one element of the ASEAN DSE programme, which aims to:
- Promote ASEAN awareness, particularly ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together, ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025 (ASCC), and ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 (AEC)
- Promote United Nations – Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
- Empower youths across the 10 ASEAN Member States with data analytics skills and other relevant skills such as problem-solving skill, critical thinking skill, analytical thinking skill, collaboration skill, and communication skill
- Inspire youths across the ASEAN region to take part in tackling pressing socio-economic issues across the region through data-driven proposals that will contribute to the achievement of the UN-SDGs within the region
ASEAN DSE competition has been endorsed by the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY) and ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Education (SOM-ED) as it supports the achievement of the ASEAN Work Plan on Youth and Education 2021-2025.
Who are eligible to participate in this Competition?
This competition is dedicated to youths with ASEAN nationality aged 15 to 30 currently undertaking full-time education in educational institutions (high school, polytechnic, universities, etc.) based in the 10 ASEAN countries. Detailed information about the eligibility of participants can be found here.
What to do?
In this competition, your team (one team comprising two students from the same ASEAN country) is required to develop data analytics storyboards/proposals using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). You need to choose one particular issue in ASEAN across the six selected SDGs to solve through their data analytics storyboard.
After your team selected the issue, the team is advised to gather relevant datasets to analyse using SAC and start developing their storyboard. You can use this list of sources to gather your datasets or other reliable sources you know and are familiar with. If you are not familiar with SAC and how to operate it, you can learn about it through the SAC Manual and mock-up datasets we have provided in this website. Alternatively, you can join the enablement session, SAC and SAP Build App training session, organised by us and our working partners. Updates on the dates of the enablement session are published on our social media platforms.
We advise your team to create an app using SAP Build App or any technological product/prototype as the solutions/recommendations (or one of the solutions) to solve the issue your team has picked to get a better chance of being shortlisted for the National Finals.
How to participate in this competition?
First, you have to ensure that you are eligible to participate in the competition. Please refer to the Eligibility section for detailed information. If you are eligible, then you have to find your partner from the same educational institution (high school, university, polytechnic, etc.) or different institution who is eligible as well. Ensure that you and your partner have the same ASEAN nationality as you both will represent your ASEAN country in the competition.
Second, sign up to the competition by completing the registration form through this link. Ensure you provide all the requested information in the form to qualify your team in the competition. You will receive email notification when your team has successfully registered to the competition. We will verify your registration and email you to complete your registration if your registration is incomplete. You can login to the ASEAN DSE website to complete your team’s registration. Once we verified your registration and your team qualify for the competition, we will give you the SAC account for free. You will use this account to develop your storyboard. The account will be sent directly to the email addresses of both team leader and team member. Therefore, you need to ensure that the email addresses are correct when you fill out the registration form. Note that one team will only receive one SAC account. When you want to develop an app using SAP Build Apps as a solution to address the issue you discuss in your storyboard, you can set up SAP Build Apps on an SAP BTP Trial Account.
Third, after your team finish creating your storyboard, submit it to us through this link. Your team can only submit the storyboard when submission period is open. We will notify all registered teams when the period is open. You can also refer to the timeline of the entire programme on Homepage of the website to find the submission period information. Your team can submit the revised/updated storyboard by logging into the ASEAN DSE website and submitting the revised/updated one. This will by default replace the old one.
After the submission period is closed, we will assess and evaluate all the submitted storyboards against the set assessment criteria. We will notify all shortlisted teams who will move on to the national final stage through emails and ask them to confirm if they will proceed to the national final. We will also notify the teams who are not moving to the national final through emails.
When you are shortlisted for the national final, you will be required to prepare PowerPoint Presentation slides and submit them to us. You will also be given a deep-dive session (mentoring session) on SAP Build Apps to help you build or refine your app. You will have about three to four weeks to prepare these slides and/or the app after you’re notified of you being shortlisted. You will present these slides (with or without the app) at the national final and judging at the national final will be based on the slides.
You can also refer steps to joining the competition for the same information.
Are there any requirements for the storyboards?
You can refer to data analytics storyboard requirements for details. Ensure your storyboard meets the set requirements; otherwise, your storyboard will not qualify for assessment.