What is Digiskills.pk?

What is Digiskills.pk?

DigiSkills is a nation-wide program funded by the Ministry of Information Technology & Telecom through IGNITE to train 1 million people in the future of work using technology.

DigiSkills Programme?

All around the world, people are benefitting from growing demand for outsourcing and freelancing. Tens of millions of people are earning significant income from the comfort of their homes. Advent of 3G and 4G internet, resulting in a widespread revolution of information and technology throughout Pakistan has been vital in increasing income of millions of people using their computer skills.

Pakistan is the fourth largest provider of freelancers throughout the world. In this fast changing scenario, our youth needs to be equipped with latest digital skills to prove their knowledge and abilities. Realising this fact, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, aimed to provide training to one million people in digital skills, in collaboration with Ignite and Virtual University.

The DigiSkills programme is specially designed to equip the participants with necessary knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to take maximum advantage of the available opportunities to freelancing, employment and entrepreneurship in the online job market. This initiative aims to enable Pakistan to be at the top of the countries providing freelance services.

The training courses are available at a user friendly web portal and a comprehensive Online Learning Management System at all times. Students can register in their desired courses free of cost and learn online through video lectures. An online mechanism has also been prepared for the guidance of the students. In this mechanism, their intelligent assessment and progress monitoring will be done accordingly.

Following are the courses being introduced:Digital Marketing, E-Commerce Management, Freelancing, Digital Literacy, Search Engine Optimization, AutoCAD, WordPress, QuickBooks, Graphic Design, and Creative Writing.

You can register at http://digiskills.pk

Digiskills.pk offered Courses & Instructors?

1. Freelancing.

This course is meant to teach the tips and tricks of freelancing in the simplest and effective way. The do`s and don`ts are discussed, about which a freelancer must be aware of. Introduction of different types of freelance marketplaces is given in this course. Web portals like Fiverr, Guru, and Freelancer are introduced and discussed in detail so that a trainee could effectively make money by using these portals.

2. E-Commerce Management

This course focuses on enabling trainees to learn and understand basic skills of setting-up and running online store from End-to-End including selecting niche market of products, domain hosting, selection of open-source E-Business software like Magento and Prestashop etc. Trainees will learn skill to set up online store quickly in Magento and Prestashop on localhost and on Cloud. Different payment mechanism prevailing locally and internationally will be discussed at-length to enable trainees to know about the dynamics of global E-Commerce marketplace. Trainees will be able to learn the skill of optimizing the online store using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Facebook Ad’s, AdWords and AdSense will be discussed from the implementation viewpoint in reaching out to clients for revenue generation. AdSense will enable trainees to start earning by creating a blog and apply traffic generation techniques to increase earning at free of cost. Trainees will learn skill on how to start business utilizing AliBaba Group Webportal. Trainees will learn how to scale E-commerce business on long-term basis to generate sustainable revenue from the online store. Attention to scaling the business and management of E-Commerce business is much needed in the local ecosystem.

3. Digital Marketing

Digital and Social Media marketing is an exciting and fresh training course incorporating a hybrid and interactive pedagogy. The training integrates technology, theory and practice. It will prepare participants with a foundational understanding of digital marketing channels and how successful digital marketing campaigns use the numerous online and mobile platforms. Furthermore, it also covers digital and social media marketing strategies, creating interesting and viral content, website design and management, search advertising design and deployment, digital advertising creation, Video and social media advertising, SMS and email marketing, social media campaigns design, and using data analytics to monitor and optimize the campaigns. The training is designed to motivate participants to think like a digital marketing professional, and to give experience with tutorials oriented video lessons, MCQs and hands-on activities. The goal in the end will be to create a well-equipped Digital Marketer for the freelancing world.

4. Digital Literacy

This course helps you in learning office productivity tools that are part and parcel of modern work environment. It will provide hands on training in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Internet and Email applications. These applications fit in all types of the modern working environment. Though, this course is designed for beginners, but it is also useful for people who have basic computer knowledge. It aims at raising and improving the users’ knowledge and competency of computer usage. If you are a person who wishes to explore the world of computing or someone willing to learn computer basics, then this module is for you.

5. AutoCAD

AutoCAD is an emerging field that combines creativity with technical skills. This course will help a trainee to acquire basic introduction of Computer Aided Design (CAD). AutoCAD is the pioneer software in leaving behind the cumbersome ways of drawing on a sheet/paper by hand to CAD designing with technical approach. This course will help learn this software step by step from beginner to professional level. The goal is to develop planning and designing skills starting with the fundamental theory and practice of AutoCAD and quickly advancing to draw Polylines, fillets, chamfering, gradient, layers and hatching etc. 3D Max introduction and modelling will also be discussed in collaboration with AutoCAD software. This course puts you on the track of accomplishment by providing complete instructions on how to start your AutoCAD career as a freelancer and get the best AutoCAD jobs.

6. Creative Writing

This course will prepare students for many kinds of writing, including reports, resumes, blogs, website content, proposal writing and copywriting. In the uneven playing field of our education system, fluency in English is particularly varied across different categories of schools. This course aspires to equalize some of that discrepancy to give an equal chance to youth from all kinds of educational institutions. This course also covers some basics of Language Arts including grammar, vocabulary, parts of speech and common errors in their use. Parts of the course focus on enhancing thinking conceptually, improving observation and analytical skills, so that learners can produce richer textual content.

7. Graphic Design

Graphic Design, also known as communication design, is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content. This course is focused on both theoretical and practical parts. The aim of the course is to develop design sense in trainees by the help of theoretical concepts and practice.

The focus of practical part will be on designing software e.g. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Different exercises related to online market requirements will be assigned to the trainees. So that they can work professionally in online market.

8. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) empowers a business to rank higher in search engine results which helps in reaching a wider audience. Humans are inquisitive in nature and they search for answers all the time. This was made easier with the advent of technology and Google has become the go-to search engine for Billions of people all around the world. This can be achieved by understanding how Google search engine works and how it ranks websites. This course is the key to understand one of the most important skills in Digital Marketing. If businesses can learn to rank their websites on Google, then they can literally expect millions of visitors to their website with millions of opportunities to get leads and sales.

This course is in line with international curriculum standards. In this course, you will learn about what Google and Bing are, how search works, how do Search Engines rank websites, why Google is the ultimate search engine, what does it take to be a favorite in Google’s algorithm, how can you rank high for your targeted keywords, which tools and techniques do you need to outrank your competitors. In this course, you will also learn how to optimize your content and websites to rank high in those search engines, how to use tools to perform SEO, and how to run an SEO project successfully. The course is based on hands-on exercises with detailed video lectures, MCQs, and reference learning material for detailed review.

9. QuickBooks

The course will enable participants to setup and customize QuickBooks application, understand the accounting concepts associated with the application and be able to setup, organize and use different course available in the application. After completing this course, trainees will be able to handle customers, vendors, assets, and inventory and fully benefit from different functionality of the system. They will be able to use available reports and create new ones. Also, they will be able to participate in QuickBooks online jobs.

10. WordPress

WordPress powers a huge range of blogs and websites these days. This course will enable anyone how to use WordPress to become a WordPress ninja and make money with this great platform. From basic account set-up to creation of posts/pages, theme customization, plugin integration, this course covers all. In addition, the course will help you in creating your own fully functional e-Commerce shop. And excitingly, you will get a chance to meet some exceptional and unique WordPress superheroes from Pakistan who have already used this platform to change their lives and make a living by earning money from home.

Eligibility Criteria to obtain DigiSkills E Certificate.

Overall completion at 50%
Quizzes at 25% (attempt all assignments)
Hand on exercise at 15% (attempt all assignments)

Videos at 60% (Must watch complete course videos through LMS)