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Founder of Global Tech Initiatives
About Janet Yeow
In 2017, Janet Yeow launched the ASEAN Digital Literacy Caravan, a mobile tech-education unit retrofitted from decommissioned Singaporean MRT train cars, that reached over 142 rural schools across Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines in its first three years. Unlike top-down edtech deployments, her model trained local educators as 'Tech Stewards', embedding curriculum co-design and offline-first tools like Raspberry Pi, powered offline Wikipedia servers. She negotiated the first cross-border MOU between Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority and Cambodia’s Ministry of Education to fund open-source LMS localization in Khmer, ensuring pedagogical relevance over platform fidelity. Her leadership rejects 'digital leapfrogging' rhetoric, insisting instead on infrastructure sovereignty, requiring all GTI partner deployments to use locally maintained data centers and open hardware schematics. This grounded pragmatism has shaped UNESCO’s 2023 Global Framework for Equitable EdTech Procurement, where she co-authored the 'Sovereignty by Design' annex.
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- “How did retrofitting MRT train cars into classrooms change your approach to infrastructure constraints?”
- “What made you pivot from corporate VC work to building offline-first tools for rural teachers?”
- “Can you walk through how GTI’s 'Tech Steward' model avoids dependency on foreign trainers?”
- “What concrete policy shift resulted from your Khmer LMS localization work with Cambodia?”