NITDA Opens Online Portal For PLWDs From South-South On A 5-Day Digital Skills And Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program
In line with the actualization of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) mandate of attaining 95per cent digital literacy by 2030, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has opened an online portal for people in the Southsouth region living with disability to apply for a five-day training programme on digital skills and entrepreneurship.
The programme is the combination of execution of two initiatives from the seven NITDA’s Strategic RoadMap and Action Plan SRAP 2021-2024, which are Digital Transformation and Digital Literacy and Skills.
Digital transformation enables the facilitation of digital inclusion program for people living with disabilities (PLWDs) and other digitally excluded people aimed at increasing the level of digitization and digitalization across both public and private sectors.
Nigerians from all walks of life to increase the rate of digital literacy and skills among Nigerians and create a pool of global competitive human capital towards the drive of digital transformation in the public and private sector.
The two pillars promote the creation of capacity building schemes for digital entrepreneurship.
The capacity building program would take place in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Interested participant should indicate by filling the application form on http://plwd.nitda.gov.ng beginning from 10am on Tuesday 11th January 2022 and closes by midnight of Tuesday 18th January 2022.
