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specific capacity building interventions related to the country ’ s priorities in the ICT sector .
Speaking on the launch of SADA , Ivorian Minister of Communication and Digital Economy , Amadou Coulibaly , emphasised that “ SADA-Côte d ’ Ivoire will be one of the key vehicles for the operationalisation of the ‘ awareness and training ’ projects of the fourth pillar of the National Digital Strategy to 2025 , which has the specific objective to develop and promote digital skills ”.
As a pan-African dynamic learning ecosystem , SADA aims to improve digital skills qualifications , employability , and meet the emerging talent needs of African citizens . The national digital academy will support the uniquely identified digital skills priority needs at the national level . Furthermore , such national digital academies will soon be rolled out in Côte d ’ Ivoire , Burkina Faso , Tunisia , Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo .
SADA is also embarking on a programme to provide digital skills for African youth and entrepreneurs for them to thrive in the global technology ecosystem . This will help increase the digital technology competence , reduce unemployment , and increase the digital entrepreneurship capabilities for youth in Africa . This program intends to impact 500 youth by the end of the year .
Since its start of operation in August 2020 , focusing on the Capacity Building for Decision Makers ( CBDM ) module , SADA has trained over 2,000 policy and decision-makers across 26 countries in trending Digital Transformation topics including 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 Underserved , ePayment , etc . The objective is to reach over 22,000 trained beneficiaries by 2023 , supported by the SADA in-country implementation wave . p
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