900K people across the Middle East and Africa participate in free Microsoft online courses

In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic and people getting laid off, Microsoft announced a global digital skills initiative. Offering free online courses to help people boost their digital skills or gain new relevant skills to be employable.

Three months after the announcement, the company shared about ten million people have enrolled in a course from two hundred and thirty-one countries.

In November 2020, the Microsoft Africa team noted that nine hundred thousand people are from the Middle East and Africa (MEA).

This number doesn’t look like a lot looking at the population of the MEA region. With Microsoft noting connectivity as one of the challenges in the MEA region.

To try and get more people across the region skilled up, Microsoft is partnering with organizations and governments to achieve this. Offering additional funding and services.

In South Africa, Microsoft is pledging one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Afrika Tikkun. To help further its efforts of recruiting fifty thousand job hunters to take participate in one of the learning paths.

So far, the popular learning paths in the free online courses include software development, customer service and data analysis.

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