Dream Makers: The Platform For Prosperity Makers

Dream Makers is an online and offline hub of practical knowledge for the Lao people. We deliver digital content and operate offline-training courses to empower Laotian in self-development, to create new young entrepreneur, and to support men and women’s impossible dreams in creating new products and services to become possible.

We believe that “strength of nation belongs to strength of our communities and citizens” Through our online and offline, Dream Makers-DMs will capitalize Lao people’ capability in solving personal and social challenges.

Online program will run campaigns, training courses and number of communication strategies to encourage different people from primary school to university. DMs will consolidate and train various groups of population, targeting disadvantage, women, uneducated, and disable people. We will also help business community, employers, and angle investors finding local professional experts for creating new enterprises, recruiting future employees and together supporting each other dreams.

Offline program will deliver supporting activities to particular group of youth, women, disability for those who are thinking of running a business, developing entrepreneurship, or individual professional career development. Substantive support in the field of marketing, management, leadership and related technical fields will be created to help new and existing entrepreneurs to be profitable. DMs will look for necessary skills for future jobs and bring those skills to the Lao people.

The Dream Makers Program will not be only tool but it will be regarded as best friend who is running supporting activities to increase productivity, to promote new skill-set for future jobs and to create new enterprises. The program is opened to all people, 24/7 from online platform. This way will generate knowledge know-how to all location. It will help uneducated to have opportunity to learn important techniques to develop themselves and community.

DMs will focus on Laos. We aim to reach at least a million Lao people. Laos is a strategic location, sharing border with 1.6 billion people. If Laos becomes a stronger nation, we can bring positive impacts to other neighbor. If Laos becomes fragile state leading to war or terrorist state, we will also bring negative impacts to this region.

Dream makers (DMs) can increase number of new learners. Many cannot access to formal education because of limited seat, finance, gender and geography. DMs' will is to adherence necessary skills that need in future jobs. When new free technical skills tools are opened to all, Lao people will have new ways of thinking to learn and improve themselves, create new products and services that will contribute to economic growth. DMs' will promote Lao people to take ownership in development, departing from international aid fund. We help dreamers to do, and we inspire new generations to have at least one dream.

Lao people are labelled as lazy ones. From personal field visits in provinces, almost all are looking for opportunity to produce and to earn more income. They want to support their kids better. Countless teenagers are looking for possibility to make income, being financial independent. Numbers of young girls want to involve in the process of production and to live on her own capability to earn. The statistics from “Facebook Norkhame” has shown that number of Lao people like to learn new techniques. From these facts, the Dream Makers will be priceless tool for Lao people to exercise their dreams.

The impact is “increasing opportunity for all in learning and creating a community, where creativity of our nation will be enhanced”. From our platform, we expect to support our course participants to bring more positive impacts on economy and social development. This will be the place for employer and angle investors finding local talent.

This universal program is for all Lao, targeting youth, uneducated, rural area, women and disable people.

People can access to our DMs online platform, and participate in offline courses. The attractive and interesting tools, contents and advanced knowledge will motivate people enrolling themselves into lifelong-learning process.

From online registration counter - At least, 100,000 people sign up to online learning and download applications by the first year implementation (with 40-50% women and disable people). At least, we dream to reach a million users in the first 5 years.

Tracking from offline workshop/training participation - At least, 100 companies (new and existing) participating in products and services development in the first few year of implementation

Tracking from online job application, number of new enterprise after attending our program and number of angle investors starting to invest with our participants - Increasing employ ability skills or recruiting new enterprise or finding angle investor

The uniqueness of “Dream Makers-DMs” is a “technology with human soul”, meaning that training contents can come from various sources but they are adapted to local values and each interest's group. Our communication strategy will illustrate DMs as Laotian best friend, who are going to help them reaching dreams, by giving online and offline techniques and skills that they can learn everywhere.

The online technology helps us to reach more people. There is limited online learning in Lao. By using our language, this tool will become friendlier to Lao community and motivate uneducated and disadvantage group to learn new techniques.

Human creates contents for people and we utilize online technology to communicate with people. The platform will consolidate various groups of people, for example, training courses designers of each field, content contributors, graphic designers, and experts. Knowledge will not strict to only Lao wisdom but we are ready to bring new modern techniques from developed countries by adapting to local audiences. This will help Lao people get up-to-date information from well known experts or new way of thinking in other places. Knowledge transfer through online learning and offline activities support will strengthen critical thinking, creativity and promote innovation across Laos.

Through online, we will open a website and applications as think-tank hub. The users can register to the website and download applications for learning. During pilot project, offline program will be based in Vientiane capital with possible to extend to provinces. The center operates training courses according to current potential Lao business sectors and future job sectors. The team will define courses for helping Lao people learning most up-to-date skills at each period of time. In terms of charging services both online and offline, we will offer for free at this early stage or depending on our financial supporter’s expectation.

At initial stage, we are looking for financial and technical support from SOLVE or international development community who are looking for the best possible way to develop Laos. The criteria that we are proposing link to job creation, gender gap, humanity and sustainable development.

In general, Dream Makers will benefit to Lao economy directly, by engaging with local citizen and improving the lives of Lao people, especially disadvantage groups who are striving for a better life. We are ready to develop commercial model after the products is successfully developed, if our financial supporters wish to do or considering charging from offline program.

We are ready to contribute our property as office space for piloting period. It will be the home of Dream Makers staffs and offline-supporting program for participants. It is located in the capital city center of Laos. The cost of renting will be around $7,000-8,000 USD/year.

The tools are nothing without good contents. In our past two years, we found that Lao people are looking for something short, useful, interesting and they can apply directly to daily life. Other issue is the accessibility via online. Most Lao people have mobile but mismatching of audiences’ devices and DM’s platform can prevent them for not being able to access our platform. Literacy might be problem for ethnic minority. Therefore, we should strict to shorter and effective messages, good meaning and rich ideas. Creating variety contents to motivate audiences, such as short video, sound and picture are challenging task.

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Major reason is: SOLVE includes different parts of solution makers, for example, academic, politics, business and much more. Social problems come from various parts of domestic issues, such as, religion, laws, tradition and technology. One solution from one stakeholder might not enough. Academic researcher has capability to analyse. Politician has authority to issue law. Businessmen think on generating income. Our hope is to work with highly competent people across industries in order to bring sustainable development. Working with mixed and democratic community like SOLVE will open our mindset to come up with effective solutions for future youth employment in Laos.

This application, “We” and “Our” are constantly used. This refers to God and me. God is part of team, he is whom always never allowing me to give up, never give in, but try more. It would be nice, if SOLVE will become a part of youth solution in Laos.

We prefer to work with international experts in various fields, International Development Agencies.