More than 43,100 youth across the Middle East and North Africa have learned urgently needed coding skills, fostering youth development and job creation, industry experts announced today ahead of the United Nation’s World Youth Skills Day on 15 July. Showing the strong need for digital jobs, IDC projects the Middle East and Africa IT market to top USD 83 billion in 2020. In the Middle East, coding is taking on increased prominence in the job market, especially with the UAE-led 1 Million Arab Coders Initiative to foster coding-related jobs. Digital Skills for Today addresses several critical regional challenges, including youth unemployment, inadequate workforce readiness, social injustice, and an overall lack of digital skills training. For information about Digital Skills Today visit www.digitalskillsfortoday.orgVisit the SAP News Center.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 14, 2020 09:11 UTC