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Knight Muteti is the Founder, and Executive Director at Daughters of Kenya (DoK), a National Trust Organization in Kenya focused on empowering vulnerable girls and young mothers in Kenya under the Mantra; RESCUE – EDUCATE – EMPOWER. Established in 2016, DoK is run by an able staff team of five (5) professionals, twelve (12) community champions, and an advisory panel of seven (7) with a vision is to have a society where vulnerable girls and young mothers are empowered, and able realize their full potential. | Pulse Nigeria

CHENNAI : Indian Institute of Technology Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation is partnering with Asha For Education to launch Rural Technology Centres to take computer science literacy to remote and rural Government School Students in Tamil Nadu.

The prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) Pravartak Technologies Foundation has partnered with Asha for Education to launch rural technology centres in Tamil Nadu to take computer science literacy to remote, rural government schools and enable tapping of the potential of school students in rural areas.

Executive Director, Tech4Dev, Diwura Oladepo, in this interview with Nosa Alekhuogie, speaks about the need to empower rural and underserved communities with basic digital skills. Excerpts: Tech4Dev and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), in the United Kingdom, signed an agreement to train people in Northern Nigeria on basic digital skills. What must have informed this initiative, and what does it seek to achieve? In a time of social distancing and government-enforced lockdowns to curtail the spread of COVID-19, digital technology became the enabler of the continuation of work...

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 introduce learners in underserved communities and vulnerable groups in Northern Nigeria to digital literacy,...