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Women in Tech Cultivation project – Social Return on Investment (SROI) Report

Summary

ASPEED Technology Inc. (hereafter “ASPEED”) is a leading fabless IC design company established in 2004 and headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The company has long devoted to social welfare, channelling education resources to remote areas and strengthening cultivation of young students.

ASPEED dedicates resources to diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) and the development of female talents in technology, through face-to-face discussions with stakeholders, and by connecting the industrial topics, ASPEED’s sustainability values, and its future development path. In 2023-2024, ASPEED initiated the “Women in Tech Cultivation Project” and organized the “Panoramic View Monitoring Course (PVM Course)”, “High School Semiconductor Exploration Camp (HSSE Camp, Winter Break)” and “HSSE Camp (Summer Break)”, with the schools and ASPEED engineers joining efforts in the design and preparation. Through the activities, ASPEED exerts impacts to promote topics on female talents in technology, and cultivates diverse talents with technological expertise for the industries through education and knowledge sharing.

This research is based on the Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology, which is used to itemize and calculate the social impact of “WTC Project” of 2023-2024. Through interviews, questionnaires, meetings and discussions, the research identified the following outcomes that were created for the stakeholders by the “WTC Project”:

“Course participants” of the “PVM Course” achieved “development of learning motivation and career goal setting”, “enhancement of knowledge and practical skills in the field of technology”; “Course preparatory and operational staff” achieved “enhancement of personal soft skills”, “enhancement of intergenerational understanding and interactions”, “enhanced sense of purpose (such as sense of purpose at work, generation of social impact, self-realization)”, and also “feeling of stress”.

“Camp participants” of “HSSE Camp (Winter Break)” achieved “enhancement of personal soft skills”, “development of learning motivation and career goal setting”, and “enhancement of knowledge and practical skills in the field of technology”; “Camp staff” achieved “expansion of professional networks in the field of technology”, “enhancement of personal soft skills”, and “enhanced attention to or involvement in female empowerment in the technology field”.

“Camp participants” of “HSSE Camp (Summer Break)” achieved “enhancement of knowledge and practical skills in the field of technology”, “development of learning motivation and career goal setting”, and “advancement in self-challenge and breakthrough”; “Camp staff” achieved “enhancement of personal soft skills”, “expansion of professional networks in the field of technology”, “inspired career imagination”, and also “feeling of stress”.

The SROI analysis shows that for every NT$1 invested, the “WTC Project” generates impacts valued at NT$14.14 for the stakeholders. The sensitivity interval of the SROI value is 13.85-21.06. The research result of this project will become an important reference for strategy optimization and activity improvement of future projects, with hopes to expand the corporation’s impacts and promote cultivation of female talents in technology.