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Kenya needs digital skills and inclusive strategies to connect young people with productive jobs

Kenya’s Community of Practice on Digital Skills and Jobs met for the second thematic discussion on digital skills, inclusion and education. The participants identified need to rethink education and upskill strategies as a crucial way forward to...

Digital Skills

Empowering youth in Kenya with market-driven digital skills

The ILO and Learning Lions are bridging the digital divide in remote areas by providing comprehensive digital skills training, mentorship and job opportunities to young people. This innovative programme is transforming the lives of vulnerable...

ILO-UNICEF Learning Lab explores effective approaches to develop digital skills to empower refugees and host communities

Supporting young people to acquire skills to use technology at work is crucial to address systemic drivers of exclusion and narrow the digital divide.

Online workers organizing

ILO pilot workshops to equip workers to navigate platform work effectively in Uganda

Online platforms, trade unions and young people took part in a series of pilot workshops raising awareness on the opportunities and challenges workers, including refugees, face when embarking in gig work

Community of Practice on Digital Skills and Jobs kicks-off with a discussion on digital entrepreneurial activity in Kenya

On the heels of a rapidly growing digital economy, the ILO, Government of Kenya and social partners came together to discuss coordinated responses to drive forward innovation and decent work.

Promoting decent jobs and social justice for youth during two-week Academy in Turin

More than 100 participants from around the globe came together in Turin for the first in-person Youth Employment Academy since the COVID-19 pandemic.

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

ILO calls on G20 for international solidarity to close the global decent work divide

The G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' meeting highlighted the need to sustainably finance social protection, to extend social security to more workers, including in the gig and platform economy, and to address the global skills gap.

Technology needs to work for employers and workers in an equitable future of work

Address by Mr Satoshi Sasaki, OIC/Deputy Director, ILO DWT/CO-New Delhi, at the New Technologies and the Future of Work conference

Assessing the potential of online labour platforms to connect displaced talent with decent jobs

PROSPECTS Learning Labs series set to explore ways in which online labour platforms can connect displaced individuals with decent work

Digital economy

ILO and Rwanda partner up to boost decent jobs for youth in the digital economy

The International Labour Organization (ILO) announces a new development cooperation project, designed to promote employment for Rwanda's youth.

Community of Practice established to foster an inclusive digital economy in Kenya

The ILO and government partners convened a two-day visioning workshop to establish a Community of Practice on promoting a Kenyan digital economy that is more productive, sustainable and inclusive for all.

ITCILO and ILO Caribbean partner with Cipriani College to advance digital transformation and enhance lifelong learning

Two innovative activities will ensure workers are better prepared for evolving labour markets.

With Uganda embracing digital transformation of jobs, stakeholders gather to discuss opportunities and challenges

The ILO brought together government, private sector actors and social partners to discuss findings of its exploratory assessment of the microwork and gig economy in Uganda and gathered recommendations on how to improve digital skills training and...

EMG Nexus Dialogues on Sustainable Consumption and Production

Digitalization for Circular Economy and Green Jobs for Youth

The first nexus dialogue underscored the importance of collaboration, innovation, and policy coherence in realizing the full potential of digitalization as a catalyst for advancing the circular economy and creating green jobs for youth.

Roundtable on Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions held in Delhi

ILO, UNICEF and UNRCO India come together to discuss the potential for creating jobs in the green, digital and care economies

Migration Summit 2023: gauging challenges and prospects in hiring refugees for freelance work

Online labour platform representatives, researchers and digital skills training providers convened at the Migration Summit 2023 to exchange views, approaches and lived experiences around the challenges and opportunities in hiring refugees in...

International Digital Women’s Day

ILO equips women-led micro and small businesses with digital skills with Microsoft's support

The Women in Digital Business (WIDB) initiative will support 30,000 women entrepreneurs in 10 countries.

Social dialogue promotes decent work in Kenya’s digital economy

In a first-of-its-kind national social dialogue for Kenya on an inclusive digital transformation, ILO, government, social partners and the voices of key sector stakeholders convened to promote a digital transformation that is more productive and...

Tackling Malaysia’s digital divide

The ILO and the Malaysian government has teamed up to give TVET a digital upgrade.

WSIS Forum - An expanding digital economy offers opportunities for forcibly displaced youth, but challenges remain

A panel discussion organised by the ILO in the framework of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2023 shed light on, and convened different voices around, the multiple ways in which a digital transformation is changing how forcibly...