NITDA rolls out digital literacy programme, lists 6 skills to be covered

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  • The national authorities is pushing guardant programmes to get Nigerians into the planetary technological advancement
  • The authorities has launched the Digital Literacy for All programme, to scope each states of the federation
  • The programme is acceptable to span the acquisition gap, equip Nigerians with integer skills, and link them with jobs

Legit.ng writer Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.

President Bola Tinubu has emphasized that integer translation and artificial quality are pivotal successful realizing Nigeria's extremity of a $1 trillion economy.

To further the objective, the president has been emphatic connected positioning Nigeria arsenic a technological hub with the close resources and talents.

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has officially rolled retired a nationwide run to instrumentality integer literacy to each the states of the federation.

NITDA launches integer  literacy programme to execute   95% integer  literacy by 2030.NITDA works nether the Federal Ministry for Communication and Digital Economy, and volition beryllium hosting the trainings crossed each states successful Nigeria. Photo credit: Bosun Tijani/Hispanolistic
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The Digital Literacy for All Initiative (DL4ALL) programme, launched this week, is acceptable to run crossed each 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

NITDA announced successful an Instagram post that the authoritative motorboat is coming aft the bureau had conducted a palmy aviator signifier of the programme.

The aviator signifier has trained 152,790 Nigerians crossed 12 states successful assorted integer skills.

NITDA sets people to execute 95% integer literacy

The connection noted that determination is simply a people to execute 70% integer literate successful Nigeria by 2027, and 95% by 2030 arsenic portion of the Renewed Hope Agenda

The extremity is to physique a integer system that volition assistance alteration the country, by bridging gaps successful education, jobs, concern and online safety.

NITDA has besides listed the skills to beryllium covered successful its integer literacy programme.

  • Device & Software Operation
  • Information & Data Literacy
  • Communication & Collaboration
  • Digital Content Creation
  • Safety
  • Problem Solving

NITDA drives online safety, warns Nigerians astir banking malware

As portion of its responsibilities of driving integer safety, NITDA precocious educated Nigerians astir banking malwares.

The bureau cautioned the nationalist to beware of clicking links oregon downloading attachments from the internet.

NITDA explained that hackers sometimes disguised unsafe malware arsenic morganatic documents, lone to bargain delicate details oregon takeover users instrumentality aft download.

NITDA rolls retired AI training

The National Information Development Agency (NITDA), nether the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, has opened an exertion for radical grooming of Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers successful Abuja.

This is successful enactment with the national government's program to bid 1 cardinal Nigerian developers, and the grooming was designed for Cohort II AI developers.

NITDA launches Digital Literacy for All programme with a people     to execute   95% integer  literacy successful  Nigeria by 2025.President Bola Tinubu's Renew Hope Agenda captures integer literacy for each Nigerians, and present NITDA has acceptable a people for 2030. Photo credit: Kola Sulaimon
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According to NITDA, the escaped monthly programme held astatine the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), Abuja, and was unfastened to Nigerians aged 15 years and above.

FG to bid 3 cardinal youths nether 3MTT

In related news, Legit.ng reported that the Airtel Africa Foundation gave a N1 cardinal assistance to the national authorities for the 3 Million Technical Talents (3MTT) programme.

Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, explained however the funds volition beryllium disbursed to train astir 25,000 youths.

The 3MTT programme already trained and empowered 300,000 Nigerian youths, and the assistance funds were expected to summation the number.

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