The
Lagos State government has announced collaboration with Google to provide
digital skills training for 50,000 students of Lagos State tertiary
institutions.
Announcing the pact in his office, the special adviser on
education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh, said the three-month training would be open
to students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic
(LASPOTECH), Ikorodu; Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED),
Epe; Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Ijanikin; and the Lagos
State College of Health Sciences, and other interested members of the public.
We are trying to position our students to function in the
21st Century and digital skills are important to us. The number of students we
will be training is 50,000. We are confident that if we give Lagosians skills
to complete, they will do wonderful things. Students that do very well in the
training would be selected as Google trainers and would help the communication
company to implement future training programmes, he said.
Nigeria
Country Manager for Google, Mrs Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor said the training
is coming at the right time given the potential of the Internet to generate
income. “Everyone needs digital skills. It is really important that tertiary
institutions incorporate digital training into their curriculum. A recent
McKenzie(www.mckinsey.com) report states that
from 2013 to 2020, the Internet would contribute 300billion dollars to the
GDP. This training will span three months leveraging on the ICT
facilities in the various institutions,” she said.
Ehimuan-Chiazor
added that the modules will focus on gaining the basic digital skills, how to
run a business online, social media, online marketing, and the like.
Free registration is open for the training on a designated
website, www.digifyafrica.com .
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