Owerri Digital Village — Teaching Young People to Use Technology to Address Concrete Realities
Monday, January 31st, 2005By Njideka Ugwuegbu Harry
Community Technology Review
The Owerri Digital Village is a paradigm community technology and learning center, the first of its kind in West Africa, serving rural people between ages 8 and 25. Many of these young people come from low-income farming communities, are unemployed, and in some cases have low educational achievement. The Owerri Digital Village is an extended learning model bridging the technology, gender, education and community divides. YTF programs are focused on youth as they are quick learners, community catalysts, and have the longest productivity horizon; YTF has designed technology programs to improve the economic, educational and social status of program participants.