The Rockefeller Foundation plans to create 20,000 jobs in Nigeria through empowering youths with focused training in Information and Communications Technology.
The Managing Director, African Regional Office, Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Mamadou Biteye, unveiled the plan at a ceremony chaired by the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, in Abuja on Thursday as part of the ongoing World Economic Forum for Africa.
The 20,000 jobs are part of the Digital Jobs Africa initiative, which the Foundation inaugurated at the World Economic Forum for Africa in Cape Town, South Africa in 2013 to seize the tremendous opportunity presented by the youth bulge in Africa and the phenomenal rise of the ICT sector to bring about sustainable impact through job creation.
The initiative aims to impact one million lives in six African countries namely: Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt, by catalysing sustainable ICT-enabled employment opportunities and skills training for high potential but disadvantaged African youths.
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