LET'S GO DIGITAL AFRICA

Our initiative, let's Go Digital Africa tries to: 

1- Bridge the gap of lack of digital entrepreneurship education in Nigeria and Africa with a special target on the Gender -youths and women folks for new skills and jobs  empowerment towards poverty, hunger, and social injustices eradication in line with the UN SDGs and the 2030  Global Agenda

2- Our solution and approach is through an e-Learning- Working and Earning Digital entrepreneurship education Hub

3- Our solution and intervention is targeting at least TEN MILLION Africans for digital literacy, skills, and works from 2020 to 2025 to help a launching back from the Post Covid-19 social-economic global recovery.

Africa's poor education and illiteracy level has been attributed to the increase in Poverty, extreme hunger, and social injustices among the people. Today, despite the global advancement in Digital technology deployment, it is known that more than 70 -80 percent of the African population and communities are still without digital technologies awareness, knowledge, skills, connectivities, and digital entrepreneurship for the 21st-century learning-working and economic opportunities. And here our project LET'S GO DIGITAL AFRICA has come to bridge the gap by mobilizing and training all especially the gender folks to become digitally literate for the global opportunities through the digital revolution. 

 Thus, we are championing inclusive, affordable, accessible, skillful, and qualitative education for all using digital platforms and social medial channels which is unique and highly effective in solving the challenges of lack of skillful and entrepreneurial education in most poor African communities today. 

 We hope our project with a target of Ten Million beneficiaries in Africa from 2020 to 2025  could be scaled up globally to benefit more people across the world. Through this, the global digital gap could be narrowed. 

LET'S GO DIGITAL AFRICA, is first an Advocacy, Campaigning, and training, and mentoring Hub targeting the gender folks-women and youths in the Niger Delta Region other parts of Nigeria and Africa. Through innovation in social media and digital channels and technologies as classrooms, we are mobilizing. training and empowering the African masses especially the gender folks starting from the Niger Delta region, Nigeria to other parts of Africa for a revolution in digital deployment. 

 Our unique training is 100 percent online and 100 percent offline towards a wider reach of beneficiaries. However, during the Covid-19 social distancing and lockdown, we have adopted a total 100 percent online system of training mentoring, and empowering the African masses on DIGITAL, GREEN, and SOCIAL Enterprises Innovation and Entrepreneurship through the digital technologies, knowledge, and skills without limitations. 

Specifically, we are targeting the Gender folks of mostly the youths and women in Nigeria and Africa for e-Learning-working and earning Digital skills and empowerment. Our training and mentoring empower them as Digital, Green, and Social Enterprises Innovators and Entrepreneurs. 

 Most importantly, the underserved communities -rural/urban dwellers,  schools, colleges, and universities through public and private partnership for digital entrepreneurship training and empowerment of students, youths, and women in Africa. 

We are innovating, implementing, and deploying our innovations towards inclusive, accessible, affordable, skillful, and quality education/training and empowering the gender folks-youths and women for digital entrepreneurship education for e-learning-working and earning opportunities. This is especially so because of the high levels of illiteracy, unemployment, poor education, and poverty with injustices among the masses. These groups, apart from being digitally active, are mostly marginalized hence the increase in social injustices and high levels of poverty and hunger. Thus, our intervention in digital entrepreneurship is specially designed to bridge this gap with new knowledge, new skills, and new jobs. 

So far, we have trained over 15 batches of 2500 participants from our online and offline activities from 2018 to date. An most especially, during the Covid-19 global lockdown, we innovated on 100 percent online training, mentoring, and empowering for more participants across the African continent on Digital Entrepreneurship skills thereby reaching out to over 1,000,000 participants and beneficiaries. 

 We deployed the use of social media and digital channels and technologies to reach out and deliver the services with efficiency and much impact. 

Our intervention and approach is quite innovative due to 

1- As compared to the most available computer and ICT Training in Nigeria and Africa, this is a unique digital entrepreneurship education that is far higher than ordinary Computer/ICT training 

2- It is designed for e-Learning-Working and Earning digital entrepreneurship education scheme

3- It is delivered both online and offline 100 percent digital and social media  platforms and channels 

4- Highly appealing and attractive to the gender- youths and women folks thereby closing the gap of inequalities and social injustices.

5- Unique public and private partnership program-wide a very high coverage benefiting people of all ages but with 80 percent target on the gender folks-youths and women

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We have presently covered over 2,500,000  batches of participants from 2019 to date. And our target for a Post Covid-19 Social Economic Recovery is targeting  TEN MILLION ( 10,000,000) Africans from 2020 to 2025 for training mentoring, and empowerment with new digital skills, new knowledge, and new works opportunities in Nigeria and across the African continent.

To measure our progress and impacts, we are using 

1- Feedbacks from the fields and past participants

2- Regular surveys from opinion leaders

3- The achievements of the SDGs among implementing communities

4- Number of participants already implementing training as digital entrepreneurs

5- Reduction in poverty and social injustices levels among participating groups

Full-time staff including founders -9

Volunteers workers -18

In our team, we have experts and professionals in different capacities like

1- Academic, 2- Researchers, 3- Social entrepreneurs, 4- Management experts, 5-Technologists, 6- Accountants

Examples of these founders and team members are:

1- Dr. Amos Obi- Cofounder and Principal Innovator at: 

www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amos-obi-694b3b74

2- Engr. Oghore Oviemuno

3- Lois Ewoma

Board of Advisors include:

1- Prof. Stella Chiemeke- Professor of Computer Science and Vice-Chancellor Delta state University Agbor

2- Prof. Ogbonna Okorie

3- Prof. Abednego Ekoko 

4- Comrade Egbabor Emmanuel

5- Dr. John Ademila

etc

In our team, 40 percent of the leadership position are reserved for female folks. We also encourage the youth's active participation to ensure their leadership development and growth.

We place no consideration for gender or social nor tribal discriminations in our choices for leadership, membership, and participation as benefits. Equal opportunities for all are our watchwords. 

We are applying to be part of the Global solution for inclusive, affordable, accessible, skillful, and qualitative education for the world masses, especially in Africa IN LINE WITH THE un SDGs and the 2030 Global Agenda. 

We hope this prize will help us to scale up, upgrade and expand our services to more beneficiaries' outreaches and base in more communities and institutions in Nigeria and Africa towards digital entrepreneurship literacy, new skills, and new job opportunities for a peaceful, resilient and sustainable society.

We have the need for improving our technology application and deployment through the use of AI and IoT.

 We need global partners and experts on global outreach and content packaging for a world audience and exposure.

 We need financial partners and investors to scale up and expand our program base.

We need organization in the areas of partnership like

1- Digital Technology accelerators

2- Data science

3- Investors , funders and accelerators

4- Innovations mentors and partners for global presence and exposures

5- Educational Innovators and E-training platforms

Our solution, innovation, and intervention are well suited for refugees and Internally Displaced person's education, and entrepreneurship empowerment through our innovative Learning-Working and Earning system. 

 We have severally deployed our content and systems to places and communities around the Niger Delta region and the Boko Haram terrorized regions of Nigeria to help children especially youth to learned-work and earn even in the midst of crisis and camp environments. 

 Presently, we are developing and deploying our solutions and volunteering manpower to various Internally Displaced Peoples Camps around the Niger Delta, North Eastern Region, and other parts of Nigeria for e-learning of Children, youths, and women affected by various crises like Boko Haram, Ethnics and tribal herdsmen and farmers clashes. Through this, we are bridging the education gap to ensure none is being left behind. Please kindly refer to some of our activities in this regard at: https://web.facebook.com/hetav...

or https://www.youtube.com/c/AMOS...

Again, our solution bridges the digital gap of all ages, sexes, colour and background without limits or discrimination. We especially target the gender folks - Children, women and youths who are the most marginalized to be trained, mentored, and empowered through digital inclusive education and empowerment. This indeed is unique and a breakthrough in the African continent. Please again, kindly refer to some of our inclusive-based training and programs at;https://www.instagram.com/heta...

 Again, we have been adjudged and endorsed as Gender Friendly Innovation by AWARD/GAIA and AfDB networks due to our expertise and consistent in Digital Equity to the Africa populace. 

 We are also endorsed as TVET-Technical Vocational Education Training in Africa by the African Union -AU. Again, kindly refer to 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d2hs3jwafz1yh6/Africa_Education_Innovations_Handbook_2018_final.pdf?dl=0

Here again, our intervention seeks to empower the gender folks -women against poverty, extreme hunger, and social injustices/domestic violence as digital and social innovators and entrepreneurs. We are in partnership with the Center for Gender Studies and Sustainable Research, University of Delta state, Agbor on Gender Friendly  Digital innovations for women empowerment. 

 Again, our digital publication which empowers women as E-commerce, Freelancing,  Web designers, Bloggers,  digital publishers, Coders and bloggers for social-economic empowerment and improvement of the standard of living is available at https://www.amazon.com/author/...

 Our activities on women empowerment for Post Covid-19 Recovery has been recognized and globally endorsed as Covid-19 Innovation Hub at 

https://covid19innovationhub.org/innovation/hetaved-e-skills-academy-and-digital-hub

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Our goal is to advance digital entrepreneurship education in Africa and globally through the Application and deployment of AI and machine learning.

 We are presently developing the use of Bots and Apps to be used to manage and access our content around the globe within the next years. We have been given the privilege of an AI scholarship for Africa by Intel Inc. We have also received Google Digital Scholarship 2018 and 2020 for Web creations, AI, and machine learning in preparation for this dimension. 

 Above all, our institution has now established the young coders club for our young stars who are developing friendly Apps and bots to expand our technologies e-learning-working and earning hub. Our team members, Dominion and Divine who are groomed and expert coders are now in charge of this young stars coding programing for children and youths... 

 We shall be very glad to receive this prize to further this cause in our expansion drive.

Some information could be accessed on this at: https://www.youtube.com/c/AMOS...

OR https://balancedlivingacademy...