Digital Skills Project

Why Digital Skills?

As our daily lives move increasingly into the digital realm, it is clear that to be offline today is to be excluded. For this reason, it is more critical than ever that everyone — regardless of environment,gender, location or income — has the ability to access and use the internet. Unfortunately, the reality is that half the world is still offline, and the majority of those offline are rural communities mainly women.

Failure to close this digital divide — and the digital gender gap in particular — threatens to reinforce existing offline patterns of inequality and to undermine global economic growth and development. A myriad of challenges compound to keep rural communities  from unlocking the true potential of ICTs, including the high cost to connect (particularly given that rural women, on average, earn less than men) to cultural barriers to online access and use.

Research, however, has shown that one of the top reasons women and rural communities  are not online is a lack of digital skills and knowledge needed to use the Technology and web. In fact, rural communities  are nearly 75% of the population in Tanzania  more likely than urban residency  to report lack of skills as a barrier to ICT include  internet use.

DIGITAL SKILLS AWARENESS AND FREE TRAINING PROJECT AND PROGRAM FOR YOUTHS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS (Vikoba) under TANZANIA RURAL EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION-TAREO  &  MOSHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- HIMO  Digital Skills Fund aims to tackle this issue.

 

Kumekuwa na ongezeko la kasi katika umiliki na upatikanaji wa teknolojia za Habari na Mawasiliano (TEHAMA) duniani na Tanzania. Sekta ya biashara ndogondogo nchini Tanzania pia imekua na kupanuka kwa kasi na kuchangia kwa kiasi kikubwa katika kukuza uchumi na hususani katika ajira na ku-jiajira.

TAREO na MIT kwa Pamoja zimeona fursa nyingi za TEHAMA;

  1. matumizi ya TEHAMA katika kuazisha biashara.
  2. TEHAMA katika kuboresha biashara zilizopo na kukuza biashara.
  3. TEHAMA katika Elimu kwa wanafunzi.wote
  4. TEHAMA katika ajira na kuji-ajiri.

Katika washa hii itatusaidia kukamilisha utafiti watofauti katika kipato kati ya mwenye uelewa na matumizi ya TEHAMA thidi ya asiye na uelewa katika ulimwenguu.

Lengo kuu ni  kuhamasisha matumizi na manufaa ya TEHAMA yaendelee kukua  hususani vijijini na miji midogo ili;

    1. Kungamua fursa za TEHAMA.
  • Kuhamasisha matumizi sahii ya TEHAMA.
  • Matumizi kama chanzo cha taarifa za kiuchumi,kijamii na ubunifu.
  • Kushirikisha tasisi na mashirika kuhamasisha TEHAMA
  • Kuwajengea uwezo Watoto,vijana na jamii matumizi na fursa za TEHAMA.
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