ICT training labs will increase the employability of women in Pakistan
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications of Pakistan is establishing 150 labs at Women Empowerment Centers across the country with the aim of increasing women’s employability. The labs, which will cost more than USD 4 million, are being created…
ICT professionals volunteer to inspire children in schools in Bangalore, India
In December 2018, 250 techies from Bangalore, India returned to school as part of the celebration of the Skill Build Community Day in Government Higher Primary School at Nagawara. Around 450 students and teachers benefitted from this initiative and learned…
Public-private digital literacy programmes to upskill citizens in Pakistan
An article from The News Pakistan summarized a set of initiatives that have been launched by Facebook to increase digital literacy in the country. It provides yet another example of how organizations from the private sector are implementing programmes to…
The government of Portugal launched an initiative to increase digital literacy skills nationwide
The government of Portugal announced the investment of EUR 23 million to support “INCoDE.2030,” a new programme to improve the digital literacy and skills of the population. The initiative is divided into five areas, which include: inclusion, education, qualifications, specializations,…
Singapore seeks to increase the digital skills of workers from the maritime sector
The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) of Singapore launched a new training initiative to improve the ICT skills of 23,000 workers from the maritime sector. To do this, the organization released a digital readiness framework, which contains a step-by-step guide…
World Economic Forum (WEF) Digital ASEAN initiative mobilizes the private sector to upskill the workforce
The new World Economic Forum (WEF) Digital ASEAN initiative was launched to provide people from the south-east Asian region with access to digital skills training. Some of its main goals for 2020 include training 20 million people from small and…
Microsoft collaborates with non-profits in Middle East and Africa to upskill 10 million youth in computing science
Microsoft announced its new goal to impart digital skills to 10 million youth in the Middle East and Africa throughout a period of three years. The company intends to reach this goal by leveraging the on-going YouthSpark programme, which currently…
Rwandan young people learn ICT and vocational skills to grasp self-employment opportunities
KCB Foundation and the Rwanda National Youth Council and Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) Rwanda launched a programme in April 2018 to empower 100 young people with ICT and vocational skills to promote self-employment. In November 2018, ninety of the participants…
Australian government prepared to boost skills of “Future Female Entrepreneurs”
The government of Australia launched the Future Female Entrepreneurs programme to engage 55,000 girls and young women in digital skills training. The programme is comprised of three components: a digital platform to access educational content, in-person workshops to upskill beneficiaries,…
“Libraries Lead With Digital” toolkit to improve digital skills in the UK
A group of libraries from the United Kingdom launched the “Libraries Lead With Digital” toolkit, proposing a scheme to provide digital skills training for local communities. The toolkit, created in partnership with Google and Public Libraries 2020 (PL2020), contains guidance…
