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Workspotng.com - Digital skills hub in employability and digital entreprenuership
workspotng.com is a digital productivity platform that provides capacity development on workplace employability, digital literacy and remote working skills to youths and graduates and young professionals in Nigeria and are connected to remote jobs around the globe with a provision of working from home or in a co-working space.
Define three specific objectives that you would like to achieve with your proposal.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8 and 9
Online Mentor-ship ecosystem that reduces cyber fraud and internet scams among youths through our digital employment and wealth creation initiative
Closing the skills gaps within the cooperate sector that empowers youths and working professionals and for the future of work and fourth industrial revolution
What problems (particularly in value chain competitiveness and global disruption) are your community’s stakeholders facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic?
Job loss and layoffs of employees caused by the Covid19 pandemic
low awareness about remote working opportunities
long process of recruiting talents
Nigeria has a very poor reputation in the online world due to rampant internet scams originating from Nigeria.
Infrastructural challenges such as stable light and internet connectivity
What minimum viable solution(s) are you proposing to address the challenge(s) in your community?
A Digital training hub through our website www.workspotng.com and partnerships with other stakeholders and existing technology hubs in Nigeria.
We are committed to developing a community of African youths with digital tech skills by providing hands-on practice in the world of programming and digital marketing and data science.
The training is for complete beginners who are passionate about learning the basics of software development through digital skills training, coding boot camps, and remote internships for tech-enabled youths
We will partner with corporates, job placement companies, and recruiters seeking Africa’s brightest tech talent to place the top 5-percent of our trained and up-skilled alumni members into 50,000 jobs in the next five years
Share your story (your narrative)
While building a successful digital marketing firm, we recognized the inequities in the tech ecosystem and how bridging those inequities could catalyze growth opportunities for the African continent. So, On May 1st, 2020, we launched workspot Hub to provide remote learning academy with access to job opportunities
Our mission is to increase the earning power of Africans by training 1,000,000 tech talents in Africa and connecting them to 5,000 remote jobs and digital business opportunities.
We are doing this in three core ways: Micro-scholarships, Technical Training, and Talent Placement.
Please provide any additional relevant information that you would like to share.
We believe that we can reduce unemployment in Nigeria and Africa by leveraging on technology to provide capacity building, skills to African youths who will be able to work remotely as a virtual assistant, freelancer and remote worker for companies round the globe in the following job descriptions below
- Administrative tasks
- call handling
- Email handling
- Social media management
- Appointment setting
- Customer care
- Graphic designing
- Web management
- Content creation
- Copywriting
- software development
Our long term vision is to have a membership based physical tech hub in every state in Nigeria by collaborating with other co-working spaces around the country and establishing a tech hub where none is existing
Thanks
I want to start by saying your on to something great.
Jeremiah, how will your project be sustainable?
This is a brilliant idea especially at this time as there have been devastating effects on jobs due to Covi19 pandemic
Hi Jeremiah,
I trust you are well.
Let me congratulate you on your idea. Upskilling the Africa youth and connecting them to job opportunities is definitely something I hold close to my heart and admire you for taking it on.
I wish to share a few considerations.
1. Consider amending your idea description to clearly depict that the training your platform will provide is specifically tailored to programming, digital marketing and data science
2. Since you’ve already developed a prototype, how about you consider changing your objectives into SMART objectives to reflect where you would like to take your prototype going forward i.e. place the top 5-percent of our trained and up-skilled alumni members into 50,000 jobs in the next five years. Visit https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/project-objectives/ for a detailed explanation
3. It may be beneficial to list the stakeholders involved in your minimum viable solution and detailing the role each will play. Also, letting us know how you plan to make money – business model – would be great.
Hi Jeremiah,
How many youths in Nigeria, do you think, that, you're going to impact in five years to come?
way to go
Hi Jeremiah, congratulations on your idea. How many youths will you impact, would be great to have this clearly stated. All the best
Hi Jeremiah,
You are doing well, consider integrating artisans search where I can easily found artisans within specific location. That will also help during crises like COVID-19.
How do you reduces cyber fraud. it's very important issue nowadays.
Hello Jeremiah,
Good stuff,
Kindly elaborate "Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8 and 9" this goals in relation to the project.
Also highlight how you will ensure cyber security measures are being taken for all the employers.
Wishing you luck with the project keep at it.
Best Regards
The idea is very good. A emerging technology that is very useful for combatting fraud is blockchain. It you couls use it to guarantee the authenticity of degrees or training certificate, it would bring a plus to the project.
Amazing project Jeremiah, hope we will collaborate together soon because I'm also doing mentoring sessions in technology and digital security skills for secondary and college students especially female. It has a chance to go further just ensure the sustainability of the project as well as clarifications on your objectives.
Any project with digital security is a project that i like so keep pushing and you have my vote.
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Awesome! How would you ensure work efficiency by this youths/workers?
nice one. big fan of mentoring! you may want to have a look at https://www.somoafrica.org/ and https://myprosper.app/
In the meantime, you may want to have a look at our idea and vote for it if yo like it: https://cocreate.itu.int/post/3496670
Hi Jeremiah, this is a brilliant idea. Technology hubs are drivers of innovation, social change, and economic opportunity in a country and beyond. Africa’s technology hubs is of crucial importance for those living within the continent, as the trend represents an opportunity for homegrown entrepreneurship devising local solutions to socio-economic problems and propelling Africa’s innovation revolution. Africa’s technology hubs are also important for the world outside of the continent, as they are a locus for partnership opportunities. All the best, keep what you do best
Hi Jeremiah, This is a great idea, just refine it I believe most African countries especially Tanzania will need it, just keep going and review these comments from others too...go for it!!