A 28-year-old- Ghanaian blogger and Development Manager, Dinah Recheal Blankson, has been adjudged the winner of the World Bank Blog4Dev 2019 competition for Ghana.
The annual essay contest, open to young Africans aged between 18 and 28, in 48 countries in sub Saharan Africa, aims at soliciting innovative ideas from brilliant African youth on pressing developmental challenges.
Ms Blankson is amongst 32 winners whose blogs were selected from 1,212 entries, for recognition at an awards ceremony on the sideline of this yearās World Bank Spring meeting in Washington DC, last month.
This yearās question for the competition was āWhat will it take to enhance the skills needed to prepare Africaās youth for the digital economy and the future of work?ā
Ms Blanksonās blog post was focused on exposing young Ghanaians to freelance websites like āupworkā and online learning platforms like āudemyā and ālinked in learningā as a way of enhancing the skills needed to prepare Africaās youth for the digital economy and the future of work.
As part of her award, Ms Blankson would undertake an internship with the World Bank Group Office in Ghana and have her blog published on a newly dedicated blog platform entitled, āYouth Transforming Africaā.
Shedding more light on her winning blog post in an interview with the Ghanaian Times in Accra last week, she explained that the exposure to the online platforms would not only help Ghanaian youth appreciate the rapid evolution of digital skills, but also inspire them to encourage themselves to remain relevant in the digital job market.
This, she said would be impossible without support from giant internet providers in the form of low internet packages to make data affordable for easy internet access.
āCompanies could also join in the challenge by providing generous scholarships or by waiving online tuition fees for young Ghanaians to keep up with the pace of technology,ā she stated.
Private sector interventions with coordinated support from the government, she said, would be a big boost to lifelong learning and innovation among Ghanaian youth.
Ms Blankson averred that the young people in Africa had the solutions to almost all the continentās challenges, for which reason they should be aided to leverage the fourth industrial revolution and develop the solutions.
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