The United Kingdom (UK) has announced that its White Paper on International Development, tagged Digital Development Strategy (DDS) is focused on providing digital skills to over one million Nigerian beneficiaries in the next two to three years and that it will actively play huge roles in the development of the Nigerian digital transformation agenda.
This is besides the millions of Nigerians, including women and girls and People With Disabilities (PWDs who have already benefitted through various Digital Skills Projects.
Announcing the plan at the residence of the Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos during a workshop with technology journalists, the UK High Commission, through its different Heads of department, stated that Nigeria is its prime market and having spent 80 years in Nigeria, it would be a disservice if it does not transfer to Nigeria the technologies that made it number one in Europe and third in the world in technological development.
The report by Vanguard newspaper on Thursday stated that the High Commission also revealed that Nigeria and UK scooped a whopping 7 billion pounds in business transactions, just last year alone, buttressing the point that the country was central to its development agenda.
It added that the UK’s Digital Access Programme Adviser & Country Lead, Mr Idongesit Udoh disclosed that in the next two to three years that the UK is looking at applying the principles of its DDS white paper to deliver digital dividends in Nigeria.
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