The President of the Namibia National Students Organisation (NANSO), Dorthea Nangolo, is calling on the government to ensure that all schools across the country have access to digital resources and skills.

Nangolo made this call during the International Youth Day in Windhoek.

International Youth Day is an awareness day aimed at drawing attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth.

"We call on the government  to ensure that all our schools across  Namibia  have access to ICT infrastructure."

Nangola says that in a world where technology is the backbone of progress, young people need to be at the forefront of an era defined by the digital revolution.

She says there is a need for the government to support young people who are driven by innovative ideas in the digital era.

"When we look into today's world, we understand that we are moving towards a digital era that requires everyone to compete and participate, and NANSO is very clear: we can not keep preparing young people in the education system when we are not preparing them to strive in a digital era. We can teach them to be great teachers and how to be great doctors, but if we do not teach them how to be innovators and how to strive and participate in a digital era, then our education system is failing."

"The very backbone of education in Namibia and the interest on the African continent is that education must be able to respond to the needs of the society that it is in, and the needs now require that the Namibian child be able to have access to ICT infrastructure and participate in a democratic and digital era."
 
During the celebration, embrace the theme, which is "From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development.'' Young people showcased digital innovations such as after-break magazines, sex talk podcasts, and YYENI AI.
 
The YYeni AI project is currently working on a technology that can be used to teach learners on its platform to reduce classes from being overcrowded.