Digital Citizenship/ Knowledge Economy Advancement
The goal of a viable digital economy is to empower young people with digital entrepreneurship skills, tools and enabling environment to increase their employment opportunities, competitiveness and resilience to economic crises and shocks, and consequently, to reduce inequality, ensure inclusive, innovative and sustainable economic growth, and job creation.
Promoting youth empowerment through digital economy will require action to:
- Enhance digital entrepreneurship environment and digital skills of young entrepreneurs;
- Strengthen institutional capacities for developing digital economy and digital entrepreneurship policies with a focus on youth employment;
- Unlock finance solutions to improve youth’s financial inclusion and opportunities for nurturing digital entrepreneurship projects and startups.