Encourage Sustainable Innovation, GoTo Impact Foundation Holds Peak Event For CCE 3.0

The GIF Innovation Day 2024 event from the GoTo Impact Foundation (photo: Rana/VOI)

JAKARTA The GoTo Impact Foundation (GIF), an independent non-profit organization founded by Gojek, again held a GIF Innovation Day on Tuesday, October 1. This event was held to produce the latest innovations.

GIF Innovation Day 2024 is the highlight of the Catalyst Changemekers Ecosystem (CCE) program to review various innovations that Indonesia needs. Through this event, GIF wants to play an active role in overcoming climate, environmental, and digital inequalities.

Monica Oudang, Chair of the GoTo Impact Foundation, explained that GIF is designed as a place to accelerate the birth of innovation through the merger of technology and local wisdom. This innovation was developed through a sustainable multi-sector collaboration.

"When we collaborate with changemakers and see firsthand the problems in society, we see an urgent need to instill an innovation culture in individual carriers of change," Monica said at the 2024 GIF Innovation Day event.

This year, GIF Innovation Day carries the theme 'Implementing the Spirit of Innovation in the Archipelago'. During the event, GIF focused on discussing the culture of innovation, the use of technology, economic models of social initiatives, to local wisdom in the process.

GIF Innovation Day 2024 also held panel discussions, networking sessions, exhibitions, as well as presentations from the grand final CCE 3.0. The last stage of CCE 3.0 presents eight consortium changemakers who have compiled ideas and prototypes for two months.

The eight selected groups have different innovations. There is Kasianesia Lestari who wants to transform a former mine hole for sustainable fisheries, Magelang Setories which innovates on the development of digital agribusiness and marketing, and Indonesian Tourism Design which wants to encourage the digitization of tourist villages.

In addition, there is the Lombok Eco-Craft Project which initiates the Circuit Green Tourism Ecosystem innovation, Gandrung Tirta as the initiator of the Sustainable Coffee Agribusiness program that requires agricultural technology, and others.

Romy Cahyadi, CEO of Interstellar and Chairman of Indonesia Impact Alliance, who is the judge of the grand final CCE 3.0, gave appreciation for the innovations made by changemakers. Romy believes that the innovations chosen can face problems in the field.

"When accompanying the changemakers, we found that the integration between modernization and local traditions is still a challenge. Therefore, GIF's support for developing individuals who have an innovation culture is important," said Romy.