About The Competition

ASEAN Data Science Explorers (ASEAN DSE) competition is one element of the ASEAN DSE programme. 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, each team of registered participants (one team comprising two students from the same ASEAN country) is required to develop data analytics storyboards/proposals using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). They will choose one issue in ASEAN across the six selected SDGs to solve through their data analytics storyboard.

After the team selected the issue, the team is advised to gather relevant datasets to analyse using SAC and start developing their storyboard. They can use this list of sources to gather their datasets or other reliable sources they know and are familiar with. If they are not familiar with SAC and how to operate it, they can learn about it through the SAC Manual and mock-up datasets we have provided in this website.  

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.

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. 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 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 have about three to four weeks to prepare these slides after you’re notified of you being shortlisted. You will present these slides 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.

Contest Rules

1. There is no limit to the number of participating teams from each educational institution

2. Each team will consist of 2 members from the same institution or two different institutions

3. Each team will comprise 2 members with the same ASEAN nationality 

4. Each team will represent one ASEAN country, aligned with their nationality. For example, if two students in a team are studying in Lao PDR but their nationality is Indonesian, they both must represent Indonesia.

5. All Participants must hold a valid passport in the event that they are chosen to travel down to for the regional competition.

6. Each team may submit a maximum of one (1) storyboard only. This storyboard will be used to judge for qualifying rounds to finals. Amendment is NOT allowed after submission has closed.

7. The storyboard must contain graphical information and insights built by using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). 

8. Each team is advised to develop an app using SAP Build Apps or any technological tool as one of the solutions to the issue they discuss in the storyboard.

9. Each team must adhere to the submission guidelines stated.

10. Teams must use given data or data from other reliable sources (publicly accessible or via special permissions from the owner of the dataset) but they must be clearly acknowledged in the submission form.

11. All submissions must be in English.

12. All submitted material must be original and created by team members. Any previously published content used must be properly attributed to the original author.