ICT and Entrepreneurship

e-skills and Your Career

The focus of today’s program is your e-skills and entrepreneurship. Can all the initiatives – banking sector reform, privatization, debt relief, anti-corruption - being used to improve the economy bear fruit in the absence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and what will be the results if new businesses are not being created? Creating jobs and wealth in the new economy means e-skills and Entrepreneurship must be priorities.

We must develop and exploit new ways of doing and creating business with electronic skills. Our foreign reserve is very high but will foreign reserves alone reduce poverty and unemployment? How many new businesses are being created? Are we becoming more productive in the new economy?

For example, where are the jobs? The chorus is one of retrenchment, lay-offs, mass sack, rightsizing, downsizing, etc. There are no job guarantees anymore. We must use ICT, e-skills and entrepreneurship to remain relevant and secure our future. e-skills and Your Career  has always emphasized e-skills and ICTs; in the next two editions our focus will be combined with entrepreneurship.

So what is entrepreneurship?

Is the entrepreneur simply someone who wants to work for him or herself? Entrepreneurship means setting up and running a business in a profitable and sustainable manner. Entrepreneurs innovate, discover new products, new opportunities, and startup new ventures. Doing things differently or more creatively – for example using e-skills to develop software programs that help business people uncover new ways of reducing expenses. In the new economy there is constant demand for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Let’s look at some Benefits of Entrepreneurship

1. Entrepreneurship facilitates job creation. Most new jobs come from startups – small businesses are in fact the engine room of the economy providing employment of the majority of working citizens. In the knowledge economy of constant change small businesses tend to be more practical, flexible and adaptable.

2. Most knowledge economy opportunities are not about the size of industrial infrastructure, your age or location. From your home you can become an entrepreneur using e-skills to design your website you can conduct e-business with customers from all over the planet. Ideas are more important than your sex or your background.

3. Your ideas and knowledge can be used to create new jobs and wealth. An idea doesn’t have to remain as an idea. As an entrepreneur, your idea, your contribution is your power to meet needs and create wealth. With e-skills you could develop databases that schools and educational institutions need to improve their efficiency. Turn innovative ideas into profitable business ventures.

4. "From Nobodies To Somebodies", Yes please deliver value and earn respect and status. Repairing and maintaining computer systems for people and organizations helps to improve their efficiency, you are also respected and recognized in society. As you create value and employ people and you have a voice that people will listen to.

5. Entrepreneurs promotes prosperity in society, social development and alleviates poverty by employing people who become Computer technicians and network engineers. With e-skills setting up your Technical Support Company you are contributing to the economy. For example, you invest in office space, recruit admin and engineering staff, carry out marketing activities, pay taxes, pay for power supply - this generates social and economic activity and Nigerians who work for you develop their technical support and networking skills and use such knowledge to solve problems and provide solutions.

6. Entrepreneurs make positive contributions by resolving real and genuine business and social concerns through the provision of services and products that improve the quality of business and social experiences – for example developing software and ICT products that improve transport, communication (GSM/Internet), financial services (ATM)

7. "Control your destiny, or someone else will". When you’re an entrepreneur, you employ others and you employ yourself. There is flexibility in the life you choose for yourself. Being an entrepreneur is an opportunity to be independent. Run, fly and excel with your own ideas. Setup that Web development or become the Software consultant and Be your own boss. You can make things happen that affect you, your community and your world.

A great attraction for many is that of financial and decision-making independence. The power to determine your income is in your hands. Your power to create wealth is only limited by your choices, knowledge and mindset.

Furthermore, you not only control your path, but in addition decisions you take matter in people’s lives and in society. Many entrepreneurs actually change society’s interest and focus.

 

IN CLOSING

We have looked at e-skills and Entrepreneurship as well as some of the benefits. The next edition of e-skills and Your Career will look at other benefits, e-skills and the ICT Entrepreneurship opportunities.

Thank you again for your phone calls and interesting contributions on the careeraware.com  website. You can win important technology books and develop your career by simply contributing on the site or attending the FREE IT Career Seminars – the books to be won include books on e-business, database, software, engineering and networking.

How well are you developing and using your e-skills? Change your world and your future today with e-skills. e-skills and Your Career is your guide but it is you do that matters. Opportunity is calling you. Success is waiting for you. But you must make the move. You already have the ideas excuses don’t help - all you need to do is to make that move. You can make a difference.

We wish you More Knowledge More Power! Develop your knowledge and together we will develop Nigeria’s knowledge society.

e-skills and Your Career is produced and developed by Jidaw Systems Limited also known as Mastercomputers.

 

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