ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday urged the country’s youth and women to actively enroll and benefit from the 15,000 online courses offered under Google’s Career Certificate program.
The president gave a virtual speech at the Google Career Certificate Program’s opening ceremony, during which Google offered premium online courses in Pakistan in areas including IT support, automation, project management, UX design, data analytics, digital marketing & e-commerce, etc.
Together with IGNITE and the Institute of Rural Management (IRM), the programme was created.
The programme, according to the president’s message, would enable Pakistani women and young people become more active in the business and improve the country’s digital economy.
In addition to enabling women and young people to promote their services globally via ICT technologies, he continued, further digitization will increase the participation of women in the economy.
He further said that digitalization would increase the efficiency of businesses and accelerate their processes, besides giving opportunities to unemployed people to contribute to the economy.
According to the president, Pakistan could make the biggest strides not in the brick-and-mortar world but rather with the aid of the IT industry because more people would be needed in that field in the future as the amount of data that would need to be processed would also expand daily.
He claimed that Pakistan required these types of training programmes since it had a youth bulge and some of the students would be able to engage in the economy by learning the most recent digital and IT skills.
