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…
Australia calls for Industry-School Partnerships to boost digital skills that meet industry needs
The Australian Education Council released a report from the STEM Partnerships Forum providing a set of recommendations for the government to design and implement digital literacy educational programs that respond to the demand of the industry. The report, titled “Optimising…
Africa Code Week 2018 launched in Madagascar
The fourth edition of Code Week Africa was launched in the beginning of June 2018 in Madagascar with its first series of Train-the-Trainer workshops. During the kick-off event, 200 local teachers and parents received computational thinking training leveraging the educational…
More than 2 million African youth trained in digital skills by 2018
Google launched the second stage of Digital Skills for Africa program to train 10 million youth in Africa by 2022. The program consists in creating Digital Skills communities to raise technology literacy for jobseekers and businesses in South Africa, Nigeria…
Nigeria teaches youth how to code to raise their employability
In a context of high youth unemployment in Nigeria, the government of Lagos has implemented a series of programs to better prepare the young population to become competitive in the labor market. In general, these training programs focus on entrepreneurship,…
Government of Philippines gathers stakeholders to share best practices for digital inclusion
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) of Philippines announced during the recently concluded 13th Knowledge Exchange Conference, that the government would enhance its efforts to emphasize eCenter optimization and modernization of technologies to improve community development in the…
Artisans from Guanajuato receive digital training to scale their businesses
The Office of Foreign Commerce (Coordinadora de Fomento al Comercio Exterior (COFOCE) in Spanish) of Mexico launched a training to support 12 artisans from San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, to embrace digital technologies and scale the distribution of their products….