![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He decried that from November 2022 to-date, the agency had trained 226,000 young Nigerians on various digital skills but women represented only 28 per cent of the figure. The director-general added that they were initiating programmes that were women based to encourage more female participation and digital literacy among women. “We can be part of the global value chain working remotely from Nigeria for European countries, the US companies, Asian companies and programmes like this will help us achieve that,’’ Inuwa said. “If Nigeria can position itself, we can be part of this, we can have Nigeria be part of the Gig economy and working remotely. He also said that with the Gig economy and having skills like content creation, digital marketing could help one use digital platforms to promote their businesses. Inuwa added that deploying the Gig economy strategy which he explained as leveraging the power of information technology to work remotely, do freelance work could help the country position for revenue globally. He further said the deficit would result to 8.5 trillion USD unrealised annual revenue. The director-general said that looking at the global talent factory and according to research by Korn Ferry, a global organisational consulting firm, by 2030 there would be 85 million talent deficit globally. “Under that strategy, we want to achieve 95 per cent digital literacy, we want to position Nigeria to become global talent factory,’’ Inuwa said. “One of them is the National Digital Skills Strategy, which World bank has keyed into as one of the implementation partners. “Within our own mandate, implementation of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy,we are working on so many initiatives. “The research was narrowed to some countries which included Nigeria and it said that if we can achieve gender equality, we can add to the Nigerian GDP 299 billion by 2025. Inuwa recalled research by Mckinsey Global Institute which said that placing women together with their male counterparts would increase the global GDP to about 18 trillion USD in 2025. The four-day programme was held as part of the activities from the agency to celebrate the International Women’s Day, as well as the month. The NITDA,Fasaha Gina Mata Gina Al-Umma is a digital skills training programme to equip young women with the relevant skills they need to succeed in the digital world. Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, Director-General of NITDA said this on Friday at the closing ceremony of its ‘Fasaha Gina Mata, Gina Al-Umma’, digital skills programme in Abuja, in collaboration with World Bank and Natview Technology. ![]()
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