NCC, AEA Urge Women To Use Digital Economy To Create Jobs

Some stakeholders from the Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA) and Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), have called on Nigerian women to use digital economy to create jobs where they can work from home, use the internet and create wealth for themselves.

The stakeholders made this call at a symposium organised for women in commemoration of the International Women’s Day with the theme; Digit ALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality, #EmbraceEquity in Abuja.

The managing director AEA, Shehu Abdulkadir, said the agency had been providing all the necessary mentorship and support to ensure that women entrepreneurs are successful and that women’s enterprises break the barriers and become employers of labour. 

“This is what this symposium is all about, to educate women on how they could use the digital economy towards creating jobs where women can work from home, use the internet and create wealth for themselves. 

“We are here in celebration of International Women’s Day to teach women various skills which they could use to work from home and earn a living for themselves,” he said.

Also, the head of the Digital Skills and Services Unit, Digital Economy Department in the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Freda Bruce-Bennett, said the digital economy space is such a complex space because, on one side, it gives society all you need. 

Bruce-Bennett said Nigeria needs to have the growth of the digital economy, but presently the digital space is mostly taken over by men and there is nothing wrong with that.