Kano state Gv to Empower 1.5 Million Youths with Digital Skills
Kano State Information Technology Development Agency will partner with KALM Community Initiative, an NGO, to empower 1.5 million youths with digital literacy and skills towards reducing unemployment and harnessing economic productivity.
- Director-General of the Agency, Dr Bashir-Abdu Muzakkari, disclosed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at the sidelines of a ‘Youth Impact Forum’ organised by KALM Community Initiative in Zaria.
- Muzakkari said the ‘Kano State Digital Economic Policy and Digital Transformation Agenda’ targets 1.5 million youths to become digitally literate between 2025 and 2027
- He said, “These cohorts would become digitally literate at the basic, intermediate, and expert levels,” adding that of the 1.5 million target, 150,000 youths were engaged as a pilot scheme of the initiative.
- Recently, 1, 150 youths had graduated from the Kano State Entrepreneurship Institute and Kano State Institute for Information Technology, Kura,” the director-general said.
He, therefore, said the state government would have a replication of the KCI interface programme at tertiary institutions in the state.
- Muzakkari added that KASITDA would partner with the KCI towards replicating the youth impact forum and cascading the initiative down to the grassroots levels of Kano State.
- He said KASITDA was hosting ideas from different parts of the state under a Hackathon programme with the acronym ‘HEAT,’ which refers to ‘Health, Education, Agriculture, and Transportation.’
Muzakkari explained that the hackathon was initiated by KASITDA in preparation for a transition from traditional government to e-government.
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