Considering the needs of Indonesia and region that will be home to 200 million new middle income earners, Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center at United in Diversity Bali Campus will educate city planners, system designers, product developers and entrepreneurs, and digital experts to become transformative leaders through the professional education program Happy Digital X: Cities, Systems, Products and Services. Participants will help build the next generation ICT augmented sustainable and happy cities. The X of cities is the urban fabric itself, the plans and policies that guide a city’s development; the systems that provide infrastructure and public services, particularly linked to ICT, and the products and services used by inhabitants. This is the fabric that collectively brings happiness to urban residents – the Happy Digital X.
The Happy Digital X takes a systemic approach to happiness based on harmony of people, planet and the spirit. We will examine the societal dynamic to happiness, by exploring how digital interconnections between institutions and actors influence outcomes, and take a cross-disciplinary look at addressing common challenges through trust building. Those who participate in the Happy Digital X program will be empowered to co–create a future of holistic happiness aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals.
