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The Federal Government has hinted that it will empower train 10,000 refugees, migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on digital entrepreneurship as part of efforts to achieve 95 per cent digital literacy by 2030.

Also, government wants to begin talent hunt and innovation challenge in the IDP camps to enable IDPs generate ideas that would help them to solve problems in their environments.

Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency , Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, disclosed this, yesterday, in Abuja at the commencement of capacity development programme for refugees, migrants and IDPs on computer appreciation, digital marketing and digital design. He noted that the country has a target of achieving paperless government by 2030 and would not want any citizen to be left behind.

“That is why we training different categories of people. We have trained people living with disabilities, because the future is digital and to excel in life, people have to use digital technology. “NITDA places high priority on IDPs. We want to train 10,000 people from IDPs, because want an inclusive digital entrepreneurship. We want them to leave the training with skills and come up with their own startups,” he said.

 

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