Group Holds Digital Literacy Training For Women In PH 

As part of concerted efforts to improve the literacy skills of women and girls to enable them to actively participate in the developmental efforts in the diverse areas of their endeavor, a non-governmental organisation , Talklove Africa Foundation in partnership with British Council, European Union to organise a four-day digital litracy education for some selected females in Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor local government areas of the state.
The programme which was held at Rumunduru Community, in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of the state saw a  good number of women and girls in Rumunduru community, participated .
The purpose of the digital literacy skills training is to improve the literacy skills of women and girls to enable them actively participate in the developmental efforts in the diverse areas of their endeavour.
Declaring the program open ,the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs in Rivers State, Mrs. Uchechukwu in her remarks  congratulated the beneficiaries for being part of such impactful programme and urged them to consider themselves lucky to have  been  selected amongst many who are looking for such opportunity in the society .
She encouraged them to  give their full participation in other to get the maximum benefit of the training and  also emphasised on the importance of  technology in the world today, adding  that such training, would imbibe in them the necessary skills they required not only be a part of the digital world, but also enhance their businesses.

Also speaking the facilitator of the programme ,the Executive Director TalkLove Africa Foundation, Ambassador Cynthia Obinwanne in her opening remarks     welcomed the beneficiaries to the programme and illustrated the aim of the digital literacy programme on the various businesses.

Obinwanne opined that the Foundation plans  is to bridge the gap that exists in digital literacy by strengthening the digital capacity of women and girls through the digital literacy programmes across the states

According to  her ,a research conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), indicate that about 50% of Nigerian women were offline and  cannot access the internet,stressing that the
Research also showed that in Nigeria, only 22% of women are in the technology  industry and the Federal Government targets 95% literacy in Nigeria.

She told the participants that  Covid-19 pandemic had a lot of negative impact on many  businesses ,adding that during the period many people majorly did a lot of online buying to purchase their necessities during the lockdown period

Obinwanne used the opportunity and  demonstrated to them on  how much advantageous  their businesses would have had if they were digitally skilled to have ventured into the online space.

She urged  them  to  put into practice the experiences acquired during the training that there would be a  major improvement in their productivity and businesses. The particants were trained in various   computer applications such as network & internet.  applications of internet/website address, role of ISP and modes of connecting to the internet.

They were also trained on basic of Computer Networks, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Internet, Concept of Internet & WWW, Applications of Internet, Website Address and URL, ISP and Role of ISP, Modes of Connecting Internet (Hotspot, Wi-Fi, LAN Cable, Broadband, USB Tethering) Popular Web Browsers (Internet Explorer/Edge, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc.), exploring the Internet 6.5.1, Surfing the web, Popular Search Engines, Searching on Internet, Downloading Web Pages, Printing Web Pages.