Computerized Entrepreneurship Education - Special Review on Life Quality in Digital Era

Author

Dr. Senny Luckyardi, M.M.

Abstrak

Social and economic gap remain a crucial issue in Indonesia related to the level of poverty. This research focuses on analyzing how computerized entrepreneurship education can help reduce poverty in terms of improving quality of life. Studies on quality of life need to be performed in this study considering that most of the previous studies highlight unemployment and income levels as indicators of poverty, without relating it to the quality of life. In addition computerized business now has become a new trend for income generating activities. Quantitative methods were used in the research by applying Man Whitney analysis to compare quality of life between two groups of respondents. WHOQOL-BREF is used as the research instrument and was distributed to group 1 consisting of respondents who had been given computerized entrepreneurship education and group 2 consisting of respondents who were not given entrepreneurship education. Research findings indicates that computerized entrepreneurship education can help reduce poverty through significant improving in the quality of life. Entrepreneurship creates positive change which ultimately bring huge effect on human wellbeing. The research contributes to enhance our knowledge about computerized entrepreneurship education as a pathway to reduce poverty.