On 29 July 2024, the Virtual University (VU) of Pakistan organised a one-day training seminar under the theme “Empowering Girls with ICT skills”, with the aim to inspire female high-school students to pursue ICT and STEM education through various learning platforms and guide them in their studies and future careers.
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.
In partnership with HP Foundation and the UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD), ITU conducted a second train-the-trainer session on the HP-LIFE “Business and ICT skills” global programme for DTC trainers.
On 27 June 2024, a closeout event for the “Boosting digital skills through Digital Transformation Centres” (DTC) Project was held in Kumasi, Ghana. The Project was funded by the Government of Norway and ITU and started in January 2021.
Hear from the participants of the Global Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) workshop held in Bali, Indonesia, in May 2024.
In April 2024, the DTC Initiative welcomed the latest addition to the DTC community, bringing the total number of centres in the network to 14. Bridge the Digital Divide – Sierra Leone (BDDSL) is an NGO based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, whose primary mandate is to contribute to spreading the benefits of digital technology in the country.
At 7am, Rafael Sosa Marte drives to work at the Community Technology Centre in Bayaguana municipality, in the Dominican Republic, where he serves as the Centre Manager.
In an effort to expand the outreach of the “Introduction to Computer Basics for the Visually Impaired” (ICBVI) training programme nationwide, the DTC in Ghana conducted a second train-the-trainer activity Community ICT Center (CIC) managers in Kyebi in January 2024, followed by a citizens training in March and April 2024.
DTC DRC kick-started the implementation of its CONADIG "Digital Ambassadors" programme with a series of train-the-trainer activities nationwide, implemented through the support of ITU and the Government of Norway.
From 22 January to 2 February 2024, the DTC in the Dominican Republic “Centros Technologicos Comunitarios” (CTC) conducted a train-the-trainer activity on the Cisco and HP-LIFE programmes. The training was supported by ITU and the Government of Norway through the Project “Boosting Digital Skills through Digital Transformation Centres”.