A Glimpse Into The Situation of Digital Skills In Nigeria and the Role of Google Digital Skills for Africa Training Programme
Digital Skills Image. Source Here Introduction - Why Digital Skills? In the early 21st century and in the wake of technological advancement, the world was battling with the problem of 'DIGITAL DIVIDE' . This was a term used to describe the gap between people who have regular and beneficial access and control of modern information technology and those who do not. And as it is our wont, Africa was found wanting - with 2%, 10% and 21.8% of internet usage within the periods of 2005, 2010 and 2017, respectively. As against their European counterparts with Internet usage of 46%, 67% and 79% within the same years. However, today, that narrative has changed. The world population is now up 7.4 billion people and about 30 billion devices are projected to be connected to the Internet this year, 2020. Which implies that they'd be average of 6.58 number of connected devices per consumer this year - also implying that there are more smart devices today than they're huma...