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, in his virtual address to the launching ceremony of the Google Career Certificate Programme, under which Google was offering high-end online courses like IT support, automation, project management, UX design, data analytics, digital marketing & e-commerce etc., in Pakistan. The progam was launched in collaboration with the Institute of Rural Management (IRM) and IGNITE. In his message, the president said that the initiative would bring vibrancy among Pakistani youth and women to help increase their participation in the economy, besides improving the digital economy of Pakistan.

He added that enhanced digitalization would increase the inclusion of women in the economy, besides enabling women and youth to market their services throughout the world using ICT tools. 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. The president said that Pakistan could take the biggest jump, not in the brick-and-mortar world, but through the help of the IT sector as the number of people required in that field would increase in future as the amount of data that needed processing was also increasing day by day. He said that Pakistan needed such kind of training courses as it possessed a youth bulge and some of the students, who did not have access to higher education, would be able to participate in the economy by acquiring the latest digital and IT skills.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP