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Small businesses in the rural Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal have finally received support to access affordable internet.

*Calls for Digital Connectivity to Close Education Divide The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) through the Digital Access Programme earlier in 2021 provided a grant to a non-governmental organisation, Aid for Rural Education Access initiative (AREAi), towards promoting community-based initiatives to enable students from low-income families access remote learning materials, digital education resources options and digital opportunities. FCDO explained that the core of the coll...

Advertisement After two successful years in partnership together, Future Females and the UK Government’s International Tech Hub Network, have committed to increasing their support for female founders around the world through the Digital Access Programme. The partnership has pledged to support an additional 1,330 early-stage female entrepreneurs through the Future Females Business School by March 2022, in addition to the 316 female founders who have already benefited from this innovative progr...

Nigeria is to benefit from United Kingdom’s £22 million new investment to build cybersecurity resilience in developing countries globally, particularly Africa and Indo-Pacific. UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, who made the announcement at the National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference, yesterday, stressed that the British government would spend about £3 million of the fund to help the INTERPOL set up a new team that could fight cybercrime in Africa. ...

Vanguard News Foundation celebrates successes in mental health On By Chioma Obinna Established in 2017, Olamma Cares Foundation has continued to raise awareness on mental health and mental health issues in Nigeria by encouraging the social acceptance of people living with mental health conditions and the provision of support for persons living with a mental health condition or in need of mental health support. The non-profit organisation has also invested in the training of mental health first...

Punch Newspapers Sections Temiloluwa O’Peters Temiloluwa O’Peters Published 16 March 2021 The United Kingdom government has committed to supporting Nigeria in providing digital access to underserved and unserved communities and closing the digital divide in the country. This was discussed in a conference facilitated by the UK’s Digital Access Programme on ‘Digital Inclusion for underserved and unserved communities and Persons Living with Disabilities’ in collaboration with the Minis...

The United Kingdom (UK) government has declared its commitment to support Nigeria in its inclusive digital economic agenda to promote the growth of technology ecosystem and close the digital divide in the country. This move was made known, yesterday, when the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the UK’s Digital Access Programme facilitated a ‘technical conference on digital inclusion for underserved/unserved communities and Person...

  The United Kingdom has restated its commitment to supporting the Federal Government in its inclusive digital economic agenda to promote the growth of Nigeria’s tech ecosystem and close the digital divide in the country. The British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, OBE, stated this on Thursday in Lagos during a virtual technical conference facilitated by the UK’s Digital Access Programme on Digital Inclusion for Underserved/Unserved Communities and Persons Living ...

1 February 2021 The UK Government, in partnership with the Future Females Business School through the International Tech Hub Network, will support 50 female entrepreneurs to grow their tech-based businesses in Brazil Applications are officially open for the Future Females Business School, an initiative offered by the British Government in Brazil through the International Tech Hub Network. The programme will support 50 Brazilian female founders of tech-based enterprises to start, grow, s...

Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (Tech4Dev), and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), have signed a resilience training agreement to carry out basic digital literacy for rural clusters in the north. This is in efforts to empower vulnerable groups in rural clusters in Northern Nigeria with the digital skills required for the future of work and advanced learning for the 21st century. x The programme is meant to introduc...