Imo govt trains youths in digital economy

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has inaugurated the ‘Skill-up Imo Project’ organised by the Ministry of Digital Economy and E-Government targeted at training more than 100,000 youths of the state in digital skills in entry and advanced levels.Speaking at the ceremony which held in Owerri, the state capital, Uzodimma urged the youths to embrace the programme for their gain.Uzodimma said that the world economy is changing very fast and 95 per cent of the world economy is now digital and “the only market available today for any business to thrive is digital market.”There is “no government infrastructure that is as important as development of the youths.”He reiterated that the major ideas that rule the world today are digital economy, climate change and carbon-credit, hence the “need to re-align ourselves so that we can get to the global destination.”Uzodimma told the youths to understand that the digital programme they are getting into is a road to the digital world and a form of finishing school notwithstanding one’s profession.He said that his interest as governor of Imo State and in the future development of the state rests in the youths, asserting that his belief is dependent on the fact that “when you develop and prepare the youths, you have developed the state and if you jettison the youths, then you have jettisoned the state.”He then advised them to choose among the several programmes and master them as an opportunity to key into the digital world economy.Uzodimma promised the participants that once they graduate, they would get equipment from the state government to start practising.

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