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.
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), the DTC in Ghana, launched the first ICBVI train-the-trainers course in November 2023.
Hear from the participants of the Global Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) workshop held in Bali, Indonesia, in May 2024.
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.
To develop digital skills in the community, made up mostly of indigenous people, the ICT Literacy and Competency Development Bureau (ILCDB) of the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT), the DTC in the Philippines conducted a train-the-trainer and citizens’ trainings in Barangay Bagahinan, one of the Philippines' Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas.
Under the Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) Initiative and in collaboration with the Centros Tecnológicos Comunitarios (CTC), which represents DTC in the Dominican Republic, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) through its Telecommunication Development Bureau and the Government of Norway contributed to empowering female prison inmates at the Rafey Rehabilitation and Correctional Center in Santiago de los Caballeros through a digital skills training programme.