…Registration for training to last throughout Jan. 2024
Priscilla Akpanettot
No fewer than a hundred participants who attended the inauguration of the Digital Innovative Forum (DIF) on Sunday, December 24, 2023 will benefit first-hand from the interest-free loans the organization will roll-out in no time, the Chief Executive Officer of DIF, Prince Godwin Tommy has said.
Tommy who spoke shortly after the inauguration held at Vinpy Event Centre in Uyo informed that DIF will soon be partnering with international organizations for support and sponsorship. “When the loan is approved, the participants here will be the first batch of people who will benefit from it and it will be interest-free”, he said.
The Digital Innovative Forum is a three-fold package which includes training on digital communication skills, study-and-work-abroad programme (anchored by ProU Education, India) as well as affordable real estate and land banking schemes.
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According to Mr. Tommy, registration for the skills will last throughout the month of January, 2024, while the training will commence in February and last for four months.
He said the skills to be learnt for free are Web 3.0, Content creation and Plagiarism checks, while those to be paid for are Artificial Intelligence, Digital Marketing, UIUX, Cloud Computing, Web Design and Development, Graphics and Design, Animation, Data Analysis as well as Digital Publishing and Printing.
He urged members of the public to see the DIF opportunity as a platform to up their skills and position themselves for relevance in the global workspace in order not to cut-off from digital realities.
“The training will be done online and only few people will be taken after a qualifying test has been conducted. It is open to everyone but you must pass the test. We’ll send a link to people on our WhatsApp group to register for the test”, he explained, adding that the link will be dropped on their Facebook page @Digital Innovative Forum to accommodate those who could not attend the inauguration.
Appraising the DIF, a Corporate Communications expert and PR luminary, Mr. Umoh Joshua described digital communication as one of the biggest emerging industries of the 21st century which offers lots of opportunity for the Nigerian youth population.
“From digital marketing to data science, web development, app building, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, animation, digital publishing and printing; there are plenty opportunities that today’s youths can utilize to gain employment or provide employment for themselves”, he expressed.
“Through digital communications, lots of innovative solutions to real life problems are offered online for fees…people who are able to offer innovative solutions to other people’s problem get handsomely rewarded and digital communication is making it very easy for those with problems to meet those with solutions to their problems. Metaphorically speaking, digitally engineered innovative solution is the new hydrocarbon reservoir or the 21st century oil well”, he posited.
For this, he charged participants to key into the offerings of the DIF to amass wealth for themselves. “The only two things separating you that is not making any money from those who are making money via the machination of digital communication are skills and opportunities. Those two missing links are what Digital Innovative Forum (DIF) has come to offer”, he enthused.
Umoh who was the inaugural lecturer at the event was speaking on “Digital Communications and Innovative Solutions to the Double Jeopardy of Poverty and Almajirism in Nigeria: The DIF Paradigm”. He stressed that the switch to digital skills was one way in which people can move out of what he termed ‘almajirism’; a pattern of Islamic education colloquially used to describe a system that supports alms-giving which he noted to be a major challenge in Akwa Ibom State. Thus, he gave credence to the Initiator's standpoint on self-dependency.
It would be recalled that Prince Godwin Tommy had in his brief prior to the event said the initiative was meant to empower and position the youth for handsome financial take-homes.
"We’re trying to ensure that youths of the State and University students are empowered by our digital skills where they can work remotely and earn in dollars while they are still studying. My main goal is to bring digital skills to every young Akwa Ibomite and to help them say no to urgent 2k and ‘my leader, my leader’ attitude”, he stated.
“We are also doing this in support of Governor Umo Eno’s administration to help curb unemployment and poverty among youths in the State. We want to see a way of helping them acquire highly demanded, saleable and highly sought-after digital skills that would make them self-reliant and independent”, he stressed.
Tommy who spoke extensively on the DIF furthered that it was a three-fold package which includes the study-and-work-abroad program; a package that aids students secure admission, obtain a visa and combine work and schooling overseas, while offering them loans payable within 5-10 years after study.
The third package of the Digital Innovative Forum according to the progenitor is the real estate innovation which allows a person to acquire a 100sqm sized portion of land at the rate of N100,000 with yearly Return on Investment of 30% after it has appreciated.
He therefore encouraged members of the public to take advantage of it's offerings on grounds that they were legitimate and certified by the Akwa Ibom State Government as a Cooperative and by Corporate Affairs Commission as a Non-Governmental Organisation.
Earlier, the Chairman on the occasion, Pst. AB Isong threw his weight behind the initiative and prayed for it's progress, while calling on participants to support it by spreading the message.
An offshoot of GT Technology, DIF is in partnership with ProU Education (India) and has an NGO arm christened Ephafresh Foundation.
The event featured the unveiling of the DIF inauguration plague, award presentation to deserving key players and a Paper presentation by Eduek Bassey on "The Impact of Technological Development on Access to Justice".
Prince Godwin Tommy can be reached via: +234 906 000 8331 or digitalinnovativeforum@gmail.com for further information.
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