FG moves to unlock opportunities in digital skills

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The Federal Government on Thursday said it is working to create the enabling environment to unlock opportunities in the digital skills market in sub-Saharan Africa valued at $130 billion. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, said the biggest challenge in Nigeria's digital literacy target is not access but illiteracy. The minister

said this at a Dialogue on the National Digital Literacy Framework organised by the GIZ/Digital Transformation Centre in Abuja on Thursday. According to him, 'The access to technology that drives digital technology and its application is becoming cheaper and accessible. 'The biggest challenge is literacy.

'We need to train and retrain 230 million people in Sub-saharan Africa, and to achieve that, we need to invest $130 billion. So, a lot needs to be done. A $130 billion market is not a small market, and the government cannot do it alone. 'The government is carrying the value but the private sector will be the one to capture the value. So, government is creating the enabling environment for the private sector to create that value.

 

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