Smart Africa Digital Academy, the Digital Skills Training Programme, Launches in Congo

Smart Africa Digital Academy, the Digital Skills Training Programme, Launches in Congo

The launch of the pan-African learning ecosystem was announced on 24 February by the Smart Africa Alliance in Kintele International Conference Centre, in the presence of ICT Ministers from 18 members state of the Alliance. To ensure practical implementation, SADA circles around five modules of implementation, namely: Since its inception in August 2020, SADA has focused primarily on the CBDM module, training over 2000 policy and decision-makers across 26 countries in trending digital transformation topics. These include artificial intelligence use cases, 5G connectivity, data protection and privacy, rural broadband policies, security technologies, regulatory and innovative sandboxing environments, data centres and cloud, digital identity for the underserved and e-payments. The objective is to reach over 22000 trained beneficiaries by 2023, supported by the SADA in-country implementation wave. SADA wants to complement existing platforms, content, and initiatives by bringing together a cross-section of players within the capacity building ecosystem. So far, SADA has collaborated with the International Telecommunication Union , the World Bank , GIZ , IEEE , GSMA , Intel Corporation , Microsoft , HPE , Google , Ericsson and Rohdes & Schwartz . Having obtained initial funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in collaboration