A Review of Google Digital Skills #30DaysOfDigitalSkills Challenge
The month of August, Google Africa engaged in a thirty day Google Digital Skills challenge. The concept for the challenge was to encourage small and medium businesses in Nigeria to utilize Google’s large resource of digital product. As more people spend more time online, businesses are making an effort to increase their online presence and […]
MUST READ: How Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Hook Users
Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict,” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these […]
Cloud Is Not a Digital Transformation Strategy (Unless You Are Amazon)
How did an online bookstore eat the cloud? In 2002, Jeff Bezos did an odd, remarkable thing. He applied an IT architecture (SOA) to the culture, processes, and organizational structure at Amazon. Bezos sent an internal mandate demanding that Amazon teams communicate with each other by exposing “their data and functionality through services interfaces.” Anyone who disobeyed […]
What is digital understanding?
Digital understanding is the ability both to use technology and to comprehend, in real terms, the impact that it has on our lives. It’s not the same as digital skills. Digital skills mean we can perform a task. Digital understanding means we not only know the reason for a task and its potential consequences, but […]
‘Forget Internet scams, Nigerian Youths are using Digital Tech for good’ – @GbengaSesan
‘Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria wrote this article as part of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017. Over 100 years ago, Napoleon reportedly said of China: “Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” In light of China’s rapid economic growth in the 21st century, the French […]