The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) has partnered with Microsoft and Tech4Dev to train 100,000 residents of Lagos in Basic Digital Skills.
Lagos State Basic Digital Skills Training Programme is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder private-public-non-profit partnership designed by Microsoft for the purpose of building the capacity of key government MDAs to offer sustainable, scalable reskilling and employment services aligned to the local labor markets.
The programme focuses on providing access to digital skills training (from digital literacy to advanced training) for young people in Nigeria between the ages of 16 and 35.
DSN is implemented as a collaboration between Microsoft, The Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, Tech4Dev, and private and public sector stakeholders.
Requirements
To be considered for the training, you must:
- Be a young Nigerian between the age of 18 – 35
- Reside in Lagos
- Have time to attend trainings
Benefits
The Basic Digital Skilling component of the Digital Skill Nigeria program provides you with the opportunity to get an endorsed certificate for your Basic Digital Literacy competence in:
- Work with computers
- Access information online
- Communication Online
- Participate Safely and Responsibly Online
- Create Digital Content
- Collaborate and Manage Content Digitally
- Microsoft Office 365
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Word.
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel.
The Advanced certification component of the Digital Skills Nigeria programme provides training and industry-recognised certification in the following specialisations:
- Security Administrator (MS-500)
- Azure Data Scientist (DP-100)
- Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400)
- Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300)
Application procedure and deadline
Interested and qualified candidates should apply through the online portal. Application deadline is rolling.
