‘It’s time for Africa to start building digital capacity’
‘It’s time for Africa to start building digital capacity” by Chikodi Okereocha
Mercy insisted that there are huge opportunities in digital technology for Nigerians to tap, but many people don’t even know the opportunities exist. She said, for instance, that within data analytics alone, several career paths exist such as Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Data Analyst Consultancy and so on. “You stay in Nigeria and earn $70 an hour working for an international organisation. Even if it is three hours a day, that’s $210. You are not selling crypto, you are not selling bitcoin, but you are applying your data analytic skills.
“That’s is what made us create, under the Learntor Foundation, a free training for as many young Nigerians between 16 to 25 as possible so that we can build them like a Sharon so that before they even graduate, they would have acquired the skills that organisations need for them to succeed,” Mercy said, adding that raising future digitally savvy Nigerians and Africans especially women through free training has never been compelling.
She also said Learntor has been offering free training for students with hearing and listening disabilities at Ikeja Junior and Senior High School. Also, Learntor Foundation, she said, is offering free Data Analytics Bootcamp Training in Business Intelligence (Microsoft PowerBI) to raise future Data Analysts with the potential to earn in dollars whilst living in Nigeria.
The story was published in The Nation Newspaper on 11th June 2021
