The Ministry of Information Communication Technology and the Impact Tank Analysis Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on transforming self-sustaining digital programmes.

The MoU will accelerate employment in the digital and technology spaces.

Deputy Minister of ICT, Emma Theofelus says the MoU will further promote the acquisition of digital skills and establish Namibia as a participant on the Globe.

"We are committed once more to continuously add our part to transform our nation, ensuring that we have the needed skills to respond to today's market, that we respond to tomorrow's market, but more importantly to ensure that young people who are seen all over the world as digital natives have the opportunity to have digital skills to ensure that they are empowered, self-sustained, that these programmes will ensure that technological spaces will promote the acquisition of digital skills and establish Namibia as a hub and participant in the global economy."

"For us at Impact Tank, this collaboration does exactly that, the dent we will make in addressing unemployment, particularly among youth will be far-reaching into numbers and location, this collaboration further speaks to MICT's role and commitment in not only speaking about tech, digitization and youth unemployment but particularly doing the work and mobilizing the need resources to ensure Namibians become digitally literate," said Impact Tank's CEO Elzine Mushambi.