The successful implementation of the ‘Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres’ project delivered through the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) – through the ITU Digital Transformation Centre Initiative – has transformed thousands of lives. Women entrepreneurs, for example, learned digital marketing abilities that allowed them to build their businesses online. School children were taught programming languages such as Scratch and Python, sparking an early interest in technology.
Nana Bobie Ansah II, Chief of Bonwire—a town known for its traditional Kente fabric in Ghana—said, “We learned how to use the Internet to access markets across the world.”
The ‘Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres (DTCs)’ project was launched by ITU in 2021 to enhance GIFEC’s training activities under the Digital Transformation Centres initiative, focusing on providing digital skills training to women entrepreneurs, youth, students, instructors, marginalized groups and persons with disabilities.
