Galaxy
Backbone Plc has partnered Microsoft Nigeria to create employment
opportunities for young Nigerians through the Employable Skills
Development Internship Programme.
The ESDIP programme is part of the
Government Wide Messaging and Collaboration project based on the
Microsoft platform, and is targeted at providing capability development
programmes and training in the federal public sector for the already
deployed GWMC platform, while also enhancing adoption and usage of the
platform.
Galaxy Backbone is a government agency
charged with the responsibility of providing a common Information and
Communications Technology platform for Federal Government Ministries,
Departments and Agencies.
By this, Galaxy Backbone will enhance
modernisation in government via the increased adoption of the already
deployed government wide messaging platform, elevate the security
stature of government data by ensuring that all sensitive government
communications move from public mail infrastructure to the secured and
award-winning 1-gov.net platform, a statement by Galaxy Backbone on
Monday indicated.
This, it added, will also help to drive skill development and contribute to employability/job creation in the country.
The Chief Executive Officer, Galaxy
Backbone, Mr. Gerald Ilukwe, was quoted in the statement as saying, “The
GWMC is about efficiency, cost-saving, increased productivity and the
effective delivery of public services to the citizenry by modernising
the way public officials communicate within the government.
“For Galaxy, there is a linkage with the
ESDIP, which is a capacity building initiative that seeks to enhance
the employability of participants in the marketplace. The essence is to
empower public officials and the interns to be more effective and
efficient in their endeavours.”
In view of the strategic nature of the
project, Microsoft will lend its support in key areas including ‘Change
Management’ – with a view to building capacity, driving benefits
management and encouraging early and rapid adoption of the solution by
end users.
On the partnership, the Chief Technology
Officer, Microsoft Nigeria, Mr. Olayinka Oni, said, “The objective of
the programme is to train interns to develop transferable and employable
skills that will facilitate their placement in organisations. At the
same time, leverage the interns to support the GWMC programme through
the distribution of devices and training of recipients in the use of the
devices.”
Through the programme, Microsoft is
expected to distribute over 500 windows phones in support of the GWMC
programme, while Integral Assets Limited will recruit and train the
interns on behalf of Microsoft that would be responsible for the
distribution of these phones to their respective recipients.
The ESDIP with GWMC will run until
January 30, 2014 and Microsoft is targeting 75 per cent placement of the
interns with companies, especially the partner community at the end of
the programme, according to the statement.
“Interns will participate in a
comprehensive 10-week training programme covering MS Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, Outlook, Report Writing, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Time
Management, Windows Phone 8, Customer Service, Employment and
Interviewing Skills, among others.
“Each intern will also receive a 20-page
Insights Discovery Personality Profile to facilitate self and social
awareness based on an online evaluator,” it added.
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