ITU and UN Women, in collaboration with the African Union Commission launched African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) 2018-2022, which consists of a four-year programme to train and empower girls and young women aged 17 to 20 years old with…
In mid-July 2018 another Google Digital Garage was opened in Scotland to provide small businesses and charities from Edinburgh with access to free digital skills and entrepreneurship training. A month later, the organizers announced that the initiative will deploy a…
The Digital Literacy Alliance awarded close to USD 175,000 to 12 organizations from Philadelphia to provide the population with access to digital skills training. The program is mainly focused on helping seniors, persons with disabilities and population from underserved regions…
Canada Learning Code, a charity focused on promoting digital literacy education nationally received a donation worth $525,000 USD from Amazon to improve computer science education for children up to the 12th grade. The donation will be used to train 275,000…
Peruvian digital journalist, Jesús Véliz, offered a free training for people in El Chiclayo city to learn how to use web applications, internet browsers and social networks. Both youth and adults participated in the course, as well as some families…
The Paradigm Initiative has trained close to 1,000 Nigerian youths in technology skills, financial readiness and entrepreneurship since 2007. The organization mainly focuses on providing underprivileged secondary school leavers from three suburbs in Lagos state with life and technology skills…
Pro-Children Movement (Movimento Pró-Criança) is currently offering free three-month courses for youth and children from Pernambuco, Brazil, to learn skills such as computer hardware maintenance, informatics and robotics. The program, called “Núcleo de Inclusão Digital”, has already started training 200…
Facebook released an online Digital Literacy Library containing educational resources to promote critical thinking and responsible online behaviors among children aged 11 to 18. This initiative is intended to support educators to address topics related to technology such as privacy,…
Rwanda’s Ministry of ICT and Development Board partnered with software development firm Andela, to train and employ up to 500 Rwandan developers in the next 5 years. The public-private team will collaborate to establish a pan-African tech hub in Kigali,…
The government of La Plata and the Ministry of Modernization of Argentina launched a digital literacy program for seniors to take place from August to October 2018 in different neighborhoods, mainly at retirement centers. The program was organized to…
