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UK Government Collaborates with Stakeholders on Nigeria Start-up Bill
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UK High Commissioner welcomes new Country Director for its UK-Nigeria Tech Hub: Reiterates Commitment to support Nigeria s Tech Ecosystem
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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 collaboration is premised on ensuring children in low-income rural clusters have access to quality education through equal access to digital learning.
The Education Digital Equity Initiative closed out with a National Digital Equity Focus Group Session on Wednesday July 7th, 2021 with key stakeholders in attendance from Internet Service Providers, Mobile Network Operators, Federal Ministry of Education, Development Practitioners and Civil Society Organisations.
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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 programme.
While 42.1% of women see the opportunity to start a business, just 10.2% of women are actually taking action, in fact, the female entrepreneurship participation rate has declined in 41% of countries in the past 2 years (GEM, 2020). On top of this, the recent pandemic has been crippling for many female-led business, with a December 2020 Future Females community survey finding 36.7% of entrepreneurs saying COVID-19 had a very negative impact on their business, and 75% stating they have an
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. x
Raab said the new INTERPOL desk would work across Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda creating a regional strategy to support joint operations against cybercrime and strengthening African states’ capability to combat the menace and perpetrators.
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