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Education and Digital Inclusion
Education and Digital Inclusion
Digital literacy is an indispensable capability in today’s society. As technology has advanced rapidly, the demand for digital skills has gradually become an important indicator for measuring the competitiveness of individuals and enterprises. Digital literacy is not limited to the operation of tools; it also encompasses information retrieval, data analysis, network security, and the ability to think critically about the digital environment. With the rise of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, big data, and cloud computing, possessing strong digital literacy has enabled people to adapt more effectively to a rapidly changing work environment and to make good use of technology to improve quality of life.
Acer, as a globally leading large-scale computer brand, has for many years actively focused on the issues of digital literacy and regarded it as an important part of corporate social responsibility. Since 2010, Acer has begun promoting digital divide and digital literacy education, and has been committed to enhancing the digital capabilities of people of all age groups and from diverse backgrounds, particularly in applications within the education sector. Through cooperation with schools and social groups, Acer not only provides advanced digital equipment, but also promotes students' and teachers' adaptability and innovative capabilities in the digital environment through digital skills training and curriculum design.
Technology: Making learning more interactive and autonomous
Through Acer’s diverse and durable educational devices and solutions, the classrooms are no longer merely a space for one-way knowledge transfer, but a learning environment where real-time interaction and collaborative creation are possible. Digital tools enable students to explore content at their own pace, conduct project-based research, and engage in collaborative learning. They also help teachers employ more diverse teaching methods, enhance classroom participation and learning motivation, and cultivate students’ autonomous learning abilities.
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Acer for Education
In the EMEA region, Acer for Education program fulfilled Acer's commitment to quality education and the responsible application of technology by promoting an inclusive and sustainable digital learning environment. This program combines durable, high performance educational devices, comprehensive product life cycle management, and close collaboration with local education partners to help schools enhance teaching and learning experiences while reducing environmental impact. By establishing a robust educational ecosystem with professional distributors and solutions partners, Acer ensures that technology could be effectively deployed and supports the development of campuses over the long term, while also strengthening the digital resilience of educational systems in various countries.
Edu Summit Asia Pacific
The first Acer Asia Pacific Education Summit 2025, themed "Shaping Tomorrow: AI and Digital Technologies in Education," brought together educators, policymakers, and technology leaders from the Asia Pacific region to jointly discuss the transformations that artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization have brought to the field of education. This summit was held in Bangkok from May 7 to 8, and delegates from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam gathered to exchange ideas and reshape the learning environment through emerging technologies, enabling students to be fully prepared to embrace a digital future.
Inclusion: Everyone has the opportunity to use and understand digital tools
Acer extended its corporate spirit of "breaking down barriers between people and technology" to its social participation initiatives, leveraging its own expertise and core competency to enable more people to equally access and understand digital tools. Relevant initiatives paid special attention to vulnerable groups, women, and persons with disabilities, as well as other groups that required greater support, helping them enhance their digital literacy and operational skills, so that technology would truly become a bridge for promoting opportunity and social participation, rather than a new source of disparity.
Acer France supports the STEM4ALL association
Acer France supports the STEM4ALL association to promote inclusion and diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), addressing the continued underrepresentation of women in technical fields, particularly artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The “Women in STEM Pipeline: AI & Cybersecurity” program is closely aligned with Acer Group’s commitment to democratizing access to technology—especially through education—and encouraging women to pursue engineering and research careers, with a shared ambition to make these paths accessible to young women and underprivileged communities. Acer commits for a three-year period from 2025 to 2028, supporting the initiative through apprenticeship tax payments, promotion via corporate communications, hosting bootcamps, and providing essential IT equipment for AI and cybersecurity training. This partnership goes beyond product promotion, representing an investment in tomorrow’s talent and an inclusive technological ecosystem by removing economic, educational, and social barriers and fostering diversity and equal opportunity. Acer France provides strategic, longterm support and resources, while STEM4ALL designs and delivers education, training, mentorship, and outreach, jointly ensuring the project’s success and impact and fully reflecting Acer’s mission to make technology accessible to all.
Acer Germany supports the Rising Star Primary School
Rising Star Primary School represents hope, courage, and equal access to education. Built in close collaboration with Engineers Without Borders and the local community, the school was completed in 2023 but still lacks a reliable electricity supply. This initiative aims to install a solar power system to provide renewable energy, enabling lighting, digital learning, and access to essential educational tools for more than 800 children, while also contributing to climate protection and long-term community development. As part of the project, a new computer room is being established, supported by Acer laptops to enhance digital learning. The initiative includes five laptops from DaaS returns in 2024 and eight laptops sourced from local IT in 2025, with laptop delivery planned for January 2026.
Community Care: From Empathy to Service, Acer HQ Walks with Seniors in Xizhi
In response to Taiwan’s transition to a super-aged society in 2025, Acer HQ launched the “Acer HQ Community Care” initiative to address the combined challenges of population aging and the digital divide. Rooted in Acer’s long-standing presence in Xizhi, the program partnered with the Old Five Old Foundation and Fun-aging Community to deliver a holistic “Awareness–Learning–Action” model. Employees first built empathy and teaching capacity through immersive training, then served as volunteer teaching assistants in smartphone workshops that helped seniors master everyday digital tools, including LINE usage and fraud prevention. By combining digital empowerment with community engagement, the initiative narrowed the digital gap for vulnerable seniors while strengthening employees’ empathy and communication skills, reaffirming Acer’s commitment to using technology as a bridge for inclusion and community well-being.
Inclusive Internship Program for Deaf
APHI opens its doors to the Deaf Community in partnership with De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies (SDEAS) for the Internship Program. This internship is part of our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, with focus on creating real opportunities for deaf individuals to gain hands-on experience, build rofessional skills, and contribute their unique talents in a supportive and accessible environment. To prepare for the program, our employees participated in a Basic Sign Language Course, equipping them with the foundational communication skills to engage with our deaf interns more confidently and respectfully. This learning experience was not only practical - it also deepened our understanding of inclusive communication and connection. Interns are mentored, trained, and given real tasks that help build confidence and capability.
#AcerBerbagi Hardware Donation Sharing Technology, Shaping the Future
As part of #AcerBerbagi, Acer Indonesia strengthened its commitment to sharing technology and shaping the future by supporting equitable access to quality education throughout 2025. The initiative aimed to help reduce the digital divide by enabling technology adoption across schools with diverse learning needs. The program reached 20 schools in K12 levels across Indonesia, spanning regions from Aceh to Merauke, Papua, through a combination of direct donations and distribution in coordination with government institutions. Over the year, Acer Indonesia donated 1,050 devices, including laptops, desktops, projectors, and air purifiers, including 556 access licenses to the Jelajah Ilmu digital learning platform. The program reached 20 schools in K12 levels across Indonesia, spanning regions from Aceh to Merauke, Papua, through a combination of direct donations and distribution in coordination with government institutions. Over the year, Acer Indonesia donated 1,050 devices, including laptops, desktops, projectors, and air purifiers, including 556 access licenses to the Jelajah Ilmu digital learning platform. Beyond device support, Acer also provided training on the use of Interactive Flat Panels to help educators integrate technology effectively into the classroom. Designed for long-term use, this initiative reflects Acer Indonesia’s commitment to inclusive and future-ready education.
Supporting Kawila Wittayalai School in Chiang Mai with a New Computer Room
Kawila Wittayalai School, which was affected by flooding in Chiang Mai province. We started communicating to our employees for two months in advance to ask for the donation and playing the Wishing Tree for raising the donation fund. With the kind assistance from our employees we received the money around 857 USD. The company also provided 1,562 USD. The total donation was 2,419 USD. Not only the money, we also provided 12 Notebooks and the unused office equipment to the school for the educational purpose. The school uses our funding to develop “the computer room “. In addition, AMD donated 3 notebooks and the funding of 285 USD. to support the school as well.
Creativity: Empowering innovation through technology to address social and environmental challenges
In terms of creativity, Acer extends its technological capabilities beyond the classroom into the startup ecosystem and social innovation. Through products, solutions, and cross-sector collaboration, Acer supports startups developing innovative applications that address environmental sustainability, resource efficiency, and social well-being, such as smart city technologies, energy management, data analytics, and circular economy solutions. At the same time, Acer continues to optimize its own products toward low-carbon design, energy efficiency, and extended product lifespan, making technology not just a business tool but a force for positive social and environmental change.
Acer Longterm Smile Award
Established in 1987, the Longterm Smile Award evolved from an award focusing on student thesis awards, campus entrepreneurship, and smart internet competitions to an award aimed at encouraging corporate innovation by 2022, staying on top of industry trends. From 2006 to 2025, over 2,400 teams participated, with 127 teams winning awards and prize money exceeding 70 million NTD.
In 2025, the Longterm Smile Award introduced an "invitation-based competition" format for the first time, with Acer's upstream and downstream partners, including supply chain companies, strategic partners, and industry organizations, nominating companies to participate. This not only enhances the professionalism of the selection process but also strengthens the award's role as a cross-enterprise collaboration platform. In addition, the "Longterm Friends" platform, launched in 2024, continues to connect award-winning teams from past years, providing participating companies with substantive opportunities for exchange and resource sharing, turning recognition into a starting point for long-term growth and collaboration. The award-winning teams from the past four years are invited to participate in this year's "Longterm Friends". The final attendance rate was approximately 70 percent, and more than half of the teams participated for two consecutive years, demonstrating the community's high level of engagement and continuous influence.
Strategic investment
Our investment strategy is not limited to specific industries and sectors. Any startups that can generate synergies with the Group's resources and stimulate innovative momentum is highly valued as a longterm partner. In line with Acer's continued expansion into diverse technology applications, in addition to manufacturing of information hardware, we also actively deploy startup ventures related to education, health, and sustainability, covering innovative plans such as online game-based learning platforms, tablet computer designs friendly to the elders, and zero carbone mission vessel designs.
Under the aforementioned investment and collaboration strategies, Acer Group also continues to establish substantive partnerships with startups with potential development, and verifies the feasibility of their technologies and business models through internal implementation and practical application. It is worth noting Acer’s collaboration with and strategic investment in LegalTech Inc., a legal technology startup focusing on the digital transformation of corporate legal affairs. The company provides a contract lifecycle management solution covering contract drafting, review, approval, electronic signatures, and archiving management, and integrates generative AI to enhance the efficiency of legal operations and risk management capabilities. Acer Group has already implemented and used the electronic signature services, gradually reducing the use of paper documents and further promoting paperless documentation.
Acer Diversified Subsidiaries
Acer has actively positioned itself for the future. In recent years, it has actively expanded into diverse technological application and has been dedicated to building an innovative ecosystem that integrates hardware, software, and services, opening up unprecedented possibilities for consumers and enterprises. From service-oriented technologies and the Internet of Things to e-sports and virtual reality, as of the end of 2025, Acer has 16 listed subsidiaries trading on 4 capital markets, focusing on the research and development, design, marketing, sales, and support of products and solutions, and continuing to break down the barriers between people and technology. The projects related to education are as follows:
Acer E-Enabling Service Business Inc.
Altos Computing Inc.