Universities, Private Institutions Urged to Adopt Digital Transformation Road Map

Ugo Aliogo

The Executive Secretary, Knowledge Exchange Centre, (KEC) Oluwatosin Ogunsanya, has urged universities and private Institutions to adopt a digital transformation road map to help fastrack the development and growth of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Nigeria.

Ogunsanya, who disclosed this at the Orientation Ceremony for the GAP Digital Skill programme in Lagos, said if Nigeria is desirous of being a global leader in the technology space, universities and institutions of higher learning should toe the line of adopting digital transformation plan.

He urged the federal government to adopt a national digital framework that would help the country to transform professional practices into technology driven processes.  

Speaking on the digital skill programme, he revealed that they are admitting 100 young graduates across the country to participate in their graduate advancement programme. 

He further explained they started the programme in 2015, to help graduates bridge the skills between what employers wants and the skills that they lack, adding that this training, they are focusing on digital skills, “and we have been in it for the past three years. The skills we are focusing on is on social media management.”

According to him, “The 100 persons that were admitted into the programme, will be mentored by 25 professionals across the digital marketing industry in Nigeria, alongside one or two persons abroad. They are going to through three months programme in addition to their social media-marketing programme, so they have an eight weeks social media-marketing programme, six weeks on mentoring and three weeks of job readiness training. In addition, to the digital marketing training programme, we will teach them how to get a job and keep a job.”