{"id":1,"date":"2023-09-03T21:47:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org.ng\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:03:57","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGITAL SKILLS TRAINING IN ABUJA-NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Economies across Africa are experiencing a huge digital skill gap in their&nbsp;workforce due&nbsp;to a surge in demand for these skills. Meanwhile, most African countries are recording an unemployment rate of over 40% due to inadequate skills and a lack of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">According to the preliminary findings by the world economic forum, by 2030 some level of digital skills will be required for 50-55% of jobs in Kenya, 35-45% in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Nigeria, and Rwanda, and 20-25% in Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Intellectual Giants in Africa Foundation (INGAF) and&nbsp;The Socialander Foundation, in&nbsp;collaboration with German Cooperation, co-founded by the European Union, GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit, NITDA (Nigeria Innovation Technology Agency), and Digital Transformation Center Nigeria organized a two-day digital skills training program in Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ingaf.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_1671-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6478\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of the training was to&nbsp;equip young people with digital skills, reduce unemployment and develop the educational system and businesses in Africa. The training held in&nbsp;February, 2023&nbsp;at&nbsp;B-S Hive Hotel, 4th Avenue,&nbsp;Gwarinpa, Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Graphic design training was&nbsp;conducted by Mr. Jeremiah Lazarus, a Graphic Designer and the Product Operations Lead of Paruto Group.&nbsp;He gave an overview of graphic&nbsp;design and taught the advanced use of canvas in graphic design. The class was fully practical and engaging.&nbsp;He explained the basics of canvas&nbsp;and demonstrated how to create various designs with canvas, and download different images from pixbay and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/coloor.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">coloor.co<\/a>.&nbsp;There was a high level of interaction&nbsp;between the trainer and trainees, and the feedback we got after the training was comforting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ingaf.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_1339-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6484\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another digital skill that was thought was Data&nbsp;Analytics, and the trainer, Mr. Adekunle Crown, a Professional Data Analyst, gave an introduction to Data analysis and the various phases of data analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also taught basic data analysis&nbsp;tools, including Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, My SQL, PostgreSQL, and Power BI. The training was also interactive and engaging. The trainees craved for more sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ingaf.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_1548-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6475\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As an organization, our vision to raise Intellectual Giants in Africa has motivated us to embrace the wave of digital transformation that is currently a game-changer for the African continent. This is an opportunity for us to boost economic growth, reduce the unemployment rate, alleviate poverty and improve people`s lives. This vision of Digital transformation for the African continent will also contribute meaningfully to the African Union Agenda of 2063.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economies across Africa are experiencing a huge digital skill gap in their&nbsp;workforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/again.ingaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}