Digital skills and safety training in Uganda with Hello World

Status: Ongoing

Country: Uganda

Partner: Hello World

Impact goal: 200 people

About the project

This project equips Hub community members across 6 regions in Uganda with the digital awareness, confidence, skills and online safety strategies to enable them to use the Hub and other digital tools meaningfully and safely. This responds to low digital literacy levels assessed in Hub communities and the need to accompany Hello World’s existing digital infrastructure with digital literacy training. The project will extend the impact and sustainability of Hello World’s existing digital literacy training program by training further community trainers and optimizing our existing curriculum for the needs of Hub communities, with a specific focus on digital safety and long term digital adoption.

Updates

All 12 Hubs are in the middle of delivery, with one month left of teaching time. Before the training started, Hello World conducted the baseline assessments with an average score of 24%, which are expected to increase significantly in the December end line tests! The cohorts of learners are each unique to the context and location, with a couple of school-based Hubs choosing to only train teachers, who'll be able to transfer their learning to their students. Another couple of Hubs who are delivering the program are in Nakivale refugee settlement, where the local trainer is expertly delivering the curriculum in multiple languages to make sure all learners are included. There are also 48 participants who have never used the Hub before, so the project is really breaking down barriers to digital access.

About the partner

Hello World is a United Kingdom based organization. Their goal is to bridge the digital divide by connecting hard-to-reach communities to online education and Wifi connectivity.

Visit their website here to learn more about them.