Techpreneurship: NITDA Trains 60 Women In Lagos
TECHDIGEST – The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has commenced a five day women training program with the theme, “Women ICT Techprenuership”
It is part of efforts to bridge the gender digital divide and promote digital literacy and skills amongst the womenfolk.
The training, an intervention of NITDA to help in the national vision of lifting 100 million Nigerians from poverty, has 60 women in attendance and is expected to empower them with requisite skills needed to make them employers of labour thereby creating jobs and wealth in the country.
NITDA’s representative from the department of e-Government Development and Regulations, Mr Segun Folayan, coordinated the training.
Folayan admonished the beneficiaries to ensure that knowledge acquired in the course of the training is beneficial to them in particular and the nation in general.
He stated that ‘transfer of knowledge to others who are close to them would ensure a multiplier effect of the intention of the organizer”.
He added that one person trained in ICT amounts to training of about four persons which corroborates the popular belief that if you train a woman, you train a nation.
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The NITDA representative advised the participants to make the training a worthwhile.
A representative of Senator Oluremi Tinubu whose senatorial district hosts the event, Hon. Wahab Alawiye Kings eulogised the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami and the Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, for their unrelenting effort in bridging the digital divide across gender line.
While encouraging the trainees to pay more attention to every details, Hon. Alawiye emphasized that ICT runs the world today, as such acquisition of ICT skill has become imperative.
He expressed optimism that the outcome of the training would be impactful and beneficial to the trainees.
Women ICT Techpreneurship Training Program is an intervention program of NITDA to empower women of all ages with digital literacy skill to promote digital inclusion.
It is also a major strategy in implementing the Digital Literacy pillar of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy NDEPS, as well as NITDA’s Strategic Road Map (2021-2024).
The training program seeks to empower participants with Word Processing skills for documentation purpose, Spreadsheet Management and analytics skills and other necessary skills needed for setting up Multimedia Presentations.
The beneficiaries would also be empowered with internet surfing, social media marketing skills and IT tools such as laptops and internet dongles to enable them start their own businesses.
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