Dansyn Innovation Social Organization (Dansyn ISO) in partnership with Ghana Tech Lab has organized a stakeholder engagement on the significance of digital media for job creation and economic development in the Upper East Region under the theme “The role of Digital Media in transforming the Local Economy for Job creation and Economic Development.
The Chief Executive Officer of Dansyn ISO, Daniel Yennube Nang said the programme aims to develop digital and entrepreneurial skills of young people in the Upper East Region.
The stakeholders’ engagement held in Bolgatanga was to outline the skill gaps, challenges, opportunities, strategies and policies for transforming the local economy to achieve sustainable development through digital skills and entrepreneurship.
Daniel Yennube Nang said, it will help enhance the skills of the youth for employment and startup or create their own business to help reduce the unemployment problems in the region and beyond.
He said “We try to develop the entrepreneurial and digital skills of young people in the Upper East Region. And our motivation is just to ensure that we have young people who are looking for job to try and acquire some skills to either use it to gain employment or to use that skill to start their own business so that they can employ themselves and possibly employ others”
The programme is supported by the MasterCard Foundation, Young Africa Works, the World Bank and the Ministry of Communications Ghana.
Source: A1Radioonline.Com|101.1MHZ|David Azure |Ghana
