Digital Skills
Keeping up as digital life charges ahead
In a world where everything is becoming digital, people, businesses and societies need skills that keep pace with advancing technology to survive.
In all our markets, we work with global and local partners to help people build future skills for life. Our ambition to drive a positive impact in digital skills is about helping people keep pace with advancing technology, making it safe and including all while doing so.
people to be trained in digital skills (2021 – 2025)
children, teachers and caregivers trained in online safety since 2021
Maximising Impact through Partnerships
Our partnerships with organisations such as UNICEF, Plan International and Cisco further our ambitions and allow us to maximise the impact of our initiatives.
For us, online safety and safeguarding customers when they use our services is an important part of what we do. Since 2021, we have trained 3.2 million children, teachers and caregivers in online safety principles related to cyber-bullying and online risks, including guidance on parental controls, access to helplines for children, mechanisms for reporting illegal and harmful content and efforts to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse.
Partnerships in Action
Our partnerships demonstrate some of the ways we drive impact, whether by providing education and promoting online safety in the schools in Pakistan, offering ways for elderly folks in Thailand to learn vital digital skills or supporting Bangladesh’s digital transformation by helping the country’s youths and students build competitive skills and digital expertise.
Here are some of the ongoing projects in our markets which aim to help young people build key future skills. We engage local and global partners to provide relevant training and to reach our audiences.
- Safe Digital Space for Girls and Youth (SDSGY): Grameenphone and Plan International join hands to create safe digital spaces for girls and young people
- GP Academy: Building competitive skills and digital expertise for Bangladesh’s future leaders
- Net for Living: Helping elderly people in Thailand use digital technology to tap into new business opportunities
- Taleemabad: Harnessing mobile technology to bring education to life in Pakistan
- Future Skills for all: Promoting digital inclusion, increasing connectivity, and building skills for a digital future in Malaysia
Digital Entrepreneurship for Ethnic Minorities
Plan International Thailand, dtac and Telenor Asia joined hands to equipping girls and young women in Northern Thailand with the skills they need to be part of a fast-moving digital world.
Grameenphone and Plan International join hands to create safe digital spaces for girls and young people.
Helping elderly people in Thailand use digital technology to tap into new business opportunities.
Plan + Thailand in Northern Thailand: Equipping girls and young women in Thailand with the skills they need to be part of a fast-moving digital world.
Future Skills for all: Promoting digital inclusion, increasing connectivity, and building skills for a digital future in Malaysia.
