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  • NITDA and GetBundi Launch Free Digital Literacy Program for Nigerian Youth

    NITDA and GetBundi Launch Free Digital Literacy Program for Nigerian Youth

    The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in collaboration with GetBundi, has launched an initiative to train 5,000 Nigerian youths in graphics, video editing, and digital marketing. 

    This initiative is a strategic move to propel Nigeria towards a 70% digital literacy level by 2027 under the Digital Literacy for All Initiative (DL4ALL).

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    Empowering the Creative Industry through Digital Literacy

    The program, tailored to support Nigeria’s burgeoning creative industry, offers a unique opportunity for participants to gain essential skills and become NITDA ambassadors. These ambassadors will share their newly acquired knowledge with peers, family, and friends, creating a ripple effect of digital literacy nationwide.

    Participants will undergo a 12-week free online training course to ensure they are job-ready or equipped to start their ventures in the creative industry. The program focuses on practical skills development, ensuring that participants can immediately apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.

    This initiative provides valuable skills and fosters a community of young digital literacy champions who will play a crucial role in Nigeria’s technological advancement.

    About NITDA

    The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is Nigeria’s leading agency for developing and regulating information technology. Established to promote and implement policies that support IT growth and integration, NITDA plays a crucial role in transforming Nigeria into a knowledge-based economy. Through various initiatives, the agency aims to enhance IT capabilities, drive innovation, and ensure the nation’s global competitiveness in the digital era.

    Read also: NITDA, KAOUN plans to launch GITEX Nigeria

    About GetBundi

    GetBundi is a prominent edtech platform that provides accessible and quality education across Africa. With a focus on leveraging technology to deliver learning solutions, GetBundi offers a range of courses and training programs designed to equip individuals with relevant skills for the modern workforce. By partnering with organisations like NITDA, GetBundi aims to bridge the digital divide and empower the next generation of African innovators and entrepreneurs.

    Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to enhance your digital skills and contribute to Nigeria’s digital future. Register now for the NITDA Digital Literacy Champion Program and be part of the movement towards a more digitally literate Nigeria.

  • GetBundi offers free digital skills for African women

    GetBundi offers free digital skills for African women

    An invitation to women exhibiting interest in tech-related careers. The GetBundi Education Foundation’s TechSis programme aims to provide free digital skill training to 10,000 African women by 2023—a Foundation-registered trademark. GetBundi Education primarily targets groups that could be left behind, such as women and girls, internally displaced pupils, refugees, and those with disabilities.

    In our first TechSis 2023, 500 African women learned to code. The beneficiaries, speakers, and partners all commented positively, making it a huge success.

    After documenting the critical takeaways from TechSis 2023, we are working with stakeholders to implement the recommendation to upskill many African women with digital skills to fuel inclusivity, innovation, and prosperity for Africa.

    Read also: GetBundi, Lagos Government, Launch STEM Learning in Schools

    GetBundi TechSis 2024 Free Digital Skill Training.

    With 300 women from each of Nigeria’s six geographic zones sent by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, TechSis 2024 aims to teach 1000 Nigerian women about Web Development and Data Analytics. These 1000 women will be able to take any of the over 2,000 hours of courses made by experts in the field and skilled instructors on the GetBundi Education Technology website for free. It will help them get ready for work.

    There are four parts to TechSis 2024, an online programme that lasts six months, from July 2024 to December 2024. In Africa, as in the rest of the world, men are likelier than women to work in the tech business. African women are very overlooked in the tech business, as research shows that only 30% of women working there are African.

    Female digital exclusion, which means that women are disproportionately unable to access and use digital technologies and services, is a widespread issue that is blocking the creation of a fully inclusive digital future. The TechSis initiative will help close this gap in Africa.

    Anyone who wants to join must be at least 18 years old, a college or university graduate who wants to learn new skills or move into tech, and have a working laptop or PC. You don’t need to know anything about the Digital Skills lessons beforehand.

    TechSis 2024 digital training skills are helping women into technology. Fostering diversity, giving assistance and opportunities, and tackling barriers and biases may make the tech sector more inclusive and inventive for everyone. With dedication, women may be represented and empowered in technology.

    Deadline: 15th of May 2024. Click HERE to Apply

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    About GetBundi

    GetBundi is an education technology platform that provides high-quality, engaging, and accessible STEM education for post-primary schools and Africa-wide digital skills courses.

    For most young Africans, secondary school is their last before entering the workforce. Thus, affordable, high-quality secondary education may prepare youngsters for the workforce, boost productivity, and revolutionise the economy, creating a virtuous cycle of human and economic progress. We provided resources to help STEM students build their skills.

    To equip its youth to compete worldwide, Africa must embrace and prepare them for a technology-driven future using STEM, English, and digital skills.

  • GetBundi, Lagos Government, Launch STEM Learning in Schools 

    GetBundi, Lagos Government, Launch STEM Learning in Schools 

    The Lagos State Government and GetBundi Education Technology Company have provided financing to create a STEM lab at Wesley Girls Senior High School in Yaba, Lagos.

    The Lagos State Government and GetBundi are collaborating on the STEM lab as the first step in a collaboration that would eventually see the state’s schools adopt GetBundi’s education technology platform.

    Dr Adetola Salau, Special Assistant on Education to the Executive Governor of Lagos State, stressed the importance of STEM education during his speech at the centre’s commissioning by emphasising how it helps students prepare for the workforce and equips them with the skills they need to succeed in a society that is driven by technology and is experiencing rapid change.

    The STEAMUP Lagos project, which Salau oversees, aims to instil the principles of a globally unified STEAM curriculum, make learning enjoyable, accessible, sustainable, and relatable to learners, and foster in them the capacity for critical thought, problem identification and problem-solving skills, collaboration, and creativity in designing solutions to identified challenges in society.

    Read also: Oparaugo promotes digital skills training for Africans in 2023

    According to Salau, this idea works in line with the Getbundi service.

    She said thanks to the collaboration, GetBundi is assisting students with “real-world experience and helping them to develop the skills that are in demand in the job market with the donation of a STEAM lab equipped with the latest equipment and software”.

    “They supported our district here – Educational District IV, specifically Wesley Girls Secondary School – through this generous support which aligns with our goals that ultimately focus on the provision of quality education for all of the state’s children. This encourages educational innovation that aims to improve learning outcomes.

    “We are also glad that this lab will be at a girls’ secondary school because we are driven about inspiring girls to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) courses and careers – by providing access to STEM resources directly at their school which would lead to the setting up of clubs and activities that would support their learning more about STEM and its relevance to their lives,” she said.

    Stem Lab In Test Phase

    Founder/CEO of GetBundi, Osita Oparaugo, said the STEM laboratory established in Wesley Girls Senior Secondary School was a pilot programme to enable the Lagos State government to evaluate the platform and receive feedback from students and teachers so that the government and GetBundi can then design the appropriate framework to adopt the technology across government schools in Lagos.

    Oparaugo said GetBundi is a government-approved online educational technology platform with the aim to maximise technology to make high-quality and engaging STEM subjects for secondary school and Digital Skills courses accessible to everyone across Africa.

    Oparaugo said “Less than 18 percent of Africans, Nigerians inclusive, who enter the universities pursue science-related fields due to lack of appreciation of STEM caused by inability of African countries to invest in science education mostly at the secondary school level.

    “For instance, by 2030 there will be nearly 250 million job gaps in the digital space as our world is constantly changing through technology. African youths must be equipped with the right skill sets if they want to be productive and competitive.”

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    He explained that the existing gaps were the reason for setting up GetBundi with the goal of massifying STEM and Digital Skill courses across Africa and a target to upskill 10 million African workforces by 2030 under the GetBundi Vision 2033.

    According to him, GetBundi currently offers online vocational training on 16 digital skills courses, six of which have courses in pidgin English developed by industry experts in Africa and around the world and hopes to add 14 more courses during its next content development scheduled for the second quarter of 2024.

    Mrs Juliet Ijeh, course coordinator GetBundi Education Technology and GetBundi Education Foundation, lauded the Lagos State Government for appreciating the importance of STEM education and the partnership with GetBundi.

    “To build an Africa beyond aid, the continent must refocus learning towards science and technology, especially for post primary students and youths. I wish other states in Nigeria will emulate what Lagos is doing and embrace STEM learning,” Ijeh said.

    The Lagos State Government had earlier given approval to GetBundi to set up a STEAM lab at Wesley Girls Secondary School via a letter dated 22 February 2023 and addressed to GetBundi Education Technology Limited.