Focus Group Discussion (FGD) program with partners from the SmartCities Council ASEAN

The Information Technology undergraduate program is an undergraduate program that only has 15 students in the 2019/2020 academic year. The Information Technology undergraduate program operates based on permission from the Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education.

The Information Technology undergraduate program prepares and improves the quality of its program by carrying out various training and outreach activities to lecturers and students as well as the public and communities within the Information Technology undergraduate program. The activities that have been carried out are the Study Program Introduction and Parents Gathering activities in 2019.

The structured and planned program that has been carried out is the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) program with partners from the SmartCities Council ASEAN Lead team, Mr. Kok-Chin Tay. At the same time, during the FGD, there was sharing about Smart City to management in the form of Smart City discussions. The Smart City FGD activity was held on Thursday, 03 October 2019 and was attended by the Dean and Head of Study Program (Accounting, Management, Civil Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Tourism, Law and Architects). It is hoped that with this activity, UIB can become a SmartCities Council partner in the Batam as Smart Island development plan.