Creative laboratories drive hands-on digital literacy in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fab Lab Livre is a public digital innovation network developed by the Ministry of Community Innovation and Technology of São Paulo, Brazil. The initiative is currently taking place in 12 different spaces, where participants are invited to leverage digital tools…
Online digital literacy training to support young Pakistani entrepreneurs
DigiSkills and Virtual University launched a free online digital literacy training for students in Pakistan. The course is intended to support young entrepreneurs from the country to learn technology skills that enable them to grow their businesses and increase productivity….
Colombia’s MinTIC announced the launch of Yoendigital platform to train women entrepreneurs in Bogotá
The Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MinTIC) of Colombia announced the incoming launch of Yoendigital program focused on bridging the gender digital divide in the country. With support from the local Ministry of Women, the Spanish Agency for International…
Charities and community organizations in UK to receive free digital skills training
Media Trust and Google UK launched a new training program to provide local charities and community organizations with digital skills training and resources to improve their performance leveraging technological tools. The program is based on the findings of the recent…
European organizations visit UK’s Lincolnshire Technology Hubs to share experiences about strategies to improve digital literacy in rural and remote regions
The Lincolnshire Technology Hubs (part of the Lincolnshire Growth Hub in UK) welcomed a group of partners from European organizations to learn about the plans of the CORA (Connecting Remote Areas) project between 2018 and 2020. This initiative provides local…
Coding for Employment to empower African youth with innovation and digital skills
During the Africa Innovation Summit 2018, the African Development Bank (AfDB) in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook, announced the launch of the Coding for Employment Program (CEP). This initiative will prepare youth from the continent with skills…
Close to 70% Ivorian women enlisted for Orange Foundation’s Digital Homes program are now certified digital entrepreneurs
Orange Foundation Ivory Coast announced that close to 70% of the beneficiaries of the Digital Homes (Maisons Digitales) program for vulnerable women entrepreneurs finished the course and received certificates for their accomplishment. Out of a goal of empowering 1,000 women…
GirlCode launches competition to grow women-owned small and medium tech organizations in South Africa
GirlCode is a South African organization created in 2014 to empower girls and young women through technology. This social enterprise was first created as a women only hackathon and has grown into multiple supportive programs to promote digital skills advancement…
NITDA announced the establishment of 83 digital job creation centers in Nigeria through 2018
During the 24th Annual Information Technology Professionals Assembly of the Computers Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) announced that they intent to establish 83 digital job creation centers (with a minimum of 15 computers…
Digital skills training to empower Samoan youth
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Samoa launched an ICT skills training to empower sixty unemployed youths. The pilot project, implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Community and Social Development (MWCSD), and the National University of…
