Beyond the courses...
AORA aims to enhance the experience of participants enrolled in the Asia Open RAN Academy, and supplement learnings through enrichment activities.
Enrichment is an integral step in workforce development, taking what’s learned in the academic classroom setting and connecting with real-world experiences and opportunities.
Enrichment activities are attuned to AORA’s principles of…
- Community… which emphasizes the importance of engaging stakeholders in order to pool and develop talents, exchange knowledge, and share skills; and,
- Partnerships… which strengthen collaboration and synergies among multi-stakeholders from the academe, industry, professional organizations, non-profit organizations, government, and funding agencies working in the Indo-Pacific region.
Value Streams
Enrichment activities add value to AORA’s work, which are focused on four areas:
Workforce development needs to keep up with the rapid growth of ICT to ensure that workforce capacities and skill set meet the current market and innovation demands.
Technology Deployment. The industry are expected to lead technology deployment activities, with AORA fully supporting these deployment activities.
Technical and Policy Advocacy. An integral aspect of AORA’s work is to support and advocate policies aligned with Open RAN objectives.
Enrichment Activities
Be an AORA Enrichment Partner!
There are various opportunities for AORA stakeholders to partner with us in designing and delivering enrichment activities for our community of learners.
Academia
The academe has a key role in training the future workforce’s competitiveness and employability. The ICT and ECE curriculum of universities needs to adapt to market and innovation demands in order to remain relevant and responsive to fast-paced technology changes. Enrichment activities for the academe can focus on the following:
Capacity building: Knowledge Sharing and Public Lecture Series, Continuing Professional Development
Mentorship Program: Join our Mentor/Mentee program
Internship and OJT Program: Join internship programs or look for on-the-job opportunities from our partners in the industry and government
Research: Join mini projects or use testbed or virtual labs of AORA or our partners
Student activities: Join hackathons and bootcamps
Faculty enhancement: Research exchanges
Industry
It is of great importance and benefit for the industry to be involved in honing and shaping the future workforce through the following:
Capacity building: Be an industry speaker in AORA’s Knowledge Sharing and Public Lecture Series and Continuing Professional Development courses; Offer your own training through our learning platforms or partner with us in developing a training course; Offer certification programs through AORA
Mentorship Program: Be an industry mentor and join as a mentor
Internship and OJT Program: Offer internship programs or on-the-job opportunities for our learners
Research: Be part of AORA’s network of labs, Provide demo equipment for open networks labs
Student activities: Co-organize hackathons and bootcamps through sponsorships
Faculty enhancement: Offer faculty-level research exchanges
Government
Government agencies, depending on their mandates, will have different functions and contributions, i.e., policy development or recommendation, regulation, accreditation, training and certification, applications development, and R&D:
Capacity building: Be a speaker in AORA’s Knowledge Sharing and Public Lecture Series and Continuing Professional Development courses; Offer your own training through our learning platforms or partner with us in developing a training course; Offer certification programs through AORA
Mentorship Program: Join as a mentor
Internship and OJT Program: Offer internship programs or on-the-job opportunities for our learners
Research: Be part of AORA’s network of labs, initiate mini research projects for our learners
Student activities: Co-organize hackathons and bootcamps
Faculty enhancement: Offer faculty-level research exchanges
