Industry 4.0: Welfare literacy to face the challenges of rural community

DOI

10.2991/aicobpa-18.2019.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

literacy; welfare; rural; industry 4.0

Abstract

This study identifies literacy that has an influence on improving the welfare of rural communities in the industrial era 4.0. Industrial revolution 4.0 has integrated the physical and digital world that affects all disciplines and sectors. Along with the opportunity arise, industrial revolution 4.0 has implications for the unemployment rate, the emergence of human and machine competition, and the demand for competency that continues to increase, especially in the developing countries. In this era, poor people are vulnerable group who should be concern to improve the ability to survive. In Indonesia, the percentage of poor people in rural areas is twice higher as compared to those in urban areas. Therefore, the competency development of poor people in rural areas become a focus in Indonesia based on the Village Law or Law no. 6 of 2014. Competency can be upgraded by increasing the literacy rate, especially welfare literacy including literacy related to information, entrepreneurship, and productivity. Therefore, this study conducted literature review on welfare literacy within 10 years (2008-2018). The result shows that welfare literacy including literacy of information, entrepreneurship, and productivity are interrelated. Rural communities that obtain information will improve their knowledge, thus capable to develop their productivity that positively influences their welfare. Moreover, digital devices especially smartphone made easy the access to needed information. Community library will help rural community which cannot operate digital devices to obtain information.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Muhammad Shobaruddin
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