EmpowerPack has partnered with MentorNations, ThinkZambia, and Chasten Education Center to launch the Digital Inclusion Zambia program to provide online education, professional upskilling, and digital inclusion to youth Zambiae

The platform will be developed by MentorNations’ existing curriculum with new learning content from EmpowerPack, and then localized based on collaboration between the partners. The delivery of the app and instructor-led training will be managed over an 18-month period via bootcamps with classes of 40 teens per class and 800 impacted teens. Access to these three vital skills will drive mobile adoption in Zambia due to increased digital intelligence and excitement for the possibilities of technology and its potential to drive education, economic, agricultural, and healthcare outcomes in the lives of participants

Zambian youth taking part in the program will be empowered and inspired by providing opportunities for entering the digital economy. They will learn to be safe and secure online, increase their emotional intelligence, understand how to apply digital communication skills in a virtual setting, manage their online footprint, decipher between real and fake news, understand the introductory building blocks of data literacy and computer science, obtain introductory financial literacy skills, recognize their online rights, manage their online identities, and grasp the concept of healthy and balanced usage of technology. Youth will become aware of the opportunities available in technology entrepreneurship with encouragement and reduction of social attitudes attributed to youth entrepreneurship. Those skills will be nurtured throughout the camp and via the mobile application. They will be encouraged to understand how to gain work experience through innovative means such as volunteerism and community action. Lastly, they will be introduced to role models within the community actively involved in the entrepreneurship sector.