S’pore Gov’t Providing 100 Free Fundamental Digital Lessons To Seniors From September 2019

Singapore is charging forward with its sensible nation ambition, however most (if not all) of the aged inhabitants right here is lagging behind with its lack of digital skillsets.

In a bid to construct an inclusive digital society, Minister for Communications and Info S. Iswaran introduced yesterday the enlargement of academic efforts to equip them with primary digital abilities.

The Infocomm Media Growth Authority (IMDA) has partnered with Folks’s Affiliation to organise the digital readiness clinics.

From September, 100 free workshops can be supplied to the Merdeka Era and are anticipated to achieve about 10,000 seniors over a one-year interval.

Contributors need to first take a easy survey to evaluate the areas they want most assist in.

A few of the abilities they’ll have the ability to study are private information safety, the way to use on-line serps and cellular messaging apps equivalent to WhatsApp, in addition to e-payments and QR code scanning.

The lessons can be held at public libraries and group occasions, and the total schedule can be made accessible on IMSilver.sg in September.

In line with IMDA, nearly half of Singaporeans (45%) aged 60 and above are nonetheless not utilizing the Web as of final yr.

It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, you’re perpetually catching up as a result of expertise retains transferring ahead.

It’s not as if we will someday say that we now have arrived and everyone seems to be now digitally savvy, so we should have the correct angle of continuous to study.

– Minister S. Iswaran

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