Young Banatao Learning Lab (YBLL)
The Young Banatao Learning Lab (YBLL), is a six-month capacity-building project which aims to reinforce ongoing endeavors of the organization to promote technopreneurship education and workforce development through technology and innovation in the Philippines. The project plans to do this by focusing directly on the youth and conducting a series of workshops that develop the youth’s innovation mindset and enhancing their skills to become more employable and entrepreneurial. YBLL will achieve this goal through the conduct of several components including skills assessment and development, youth engagement, networking opportunities, and the ideathon.
PhilDev Foundation, through its three pillars – Education, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, values entrepreneurship education as means to growth and success. To address the increasing skills gap which are currently leading to unemployment, underemployment, and poverty, the YBLL program was created to capacitate the youth not only in in-demand workforce development skills, but also in the field of technopreneurship. Through the program, the youth will not only develop tech skills, but also develop their innovative and technopreneurial mindset necessary to bridge existing gaps in tertiary education and the demands in the industry.
Goals & Objectives
The project aims to address the tech skills and knowledge gap resulting from the discrepancy of what is taught in schools and the current demand from the industry. Specifically, the project, aims to:
- Identify current in-demand skills in the industry;
- Capacitate the youth in workforce development by developing their tech and innovation skills; and,
- Enhance the youth’s technopreneurial mindset to boost innovative thinking.
