Digital Literacy and Skills Development in Nigeria for Youth Empowerment and Job Creation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59890/ijaamr.v2i12.237Keywords:
Skills, Digitization, Empowerment, Disruptive Technologies, Digital JobsAbstract
In this study, the strength of digital skills development to empower youths, enhance the existing jobs or create new ones is discussed. Empirical data from the global competitiveness index and network readiness index of Nigeria suggest that investment in the emerging technologies, digital skill sets, cybersecurity, research and innovation, training and development in the country are very low compared to the high-income countries. It is therefore suggested that jobs could be created massively in Nigeria when the youths and the entire workforce are trained to apply digital technologies to establish enterprises, work in organizations and solve societal challenges through improved funding, public-private partnership, effective quality assurance mechanism, periodic capacity building of ICT educators and sustained investment in relevant infrastructure development
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