By Cyber Era NG Correspondent

Pursuant to the actualization of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy NDEPS mandate of attaining 95 per cent digital literacy by 2030, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has made public the opening of  an online portal targeted at Nigerians from the South-South region and living with disability to apply for a 5-day training programme on digital skills and entrepreneurship.

A statement inked by Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations, at the National Information Technology Development Agency  (NITDA) Hadiza Umar, which Cyber Era NG has seen, says 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 programme for PLWDs and other digitally excluded people aimed at increasing the level of digitization and digitalization across both public and private sectors.

Meanwhile, Digital Literacy and Skills is focused on massive training of Nigerians from all works of life to increase the rate of digital literacy and skills among them and create a pool of globally 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 programme would take place in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, south south of the country.