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PM launches DigiSkills program to train one million youth

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Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbassi inaugurated DigiSkills Training Program, aimed at training one million youth through online modules in Islamabad on Thursday. Addressing the ceremony, the Prime Minister said the present government has delivered in many fields by building motorways, ports, airports and establishing power plants but the advancement in the information technology sector is most important contribution in the last five years.

The Prime Minister said that Digiskills program will equip the youth to get online jobs and earn money through a non-traditional way. He said that he has full faith in the youth of the country and expressed the confidence that the girls will, in future, excel in e-commerce.

He said the government on its part is committed to ensure availability of broadband in every inch of the country and the Prime Minister appreciated Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication (MoITT) and Virtual University of Pakistan (VU) for their role in the development of youth through ICT and Digital services.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunications Ms. Anusha Rehman said the DigiSkills program is an important endeavor of the Ministry that will create online employment opportunities to enable youth to earn 200 to 300 dollars per month. She said with the help of this program youth from across the country will be providing their services to the entire world. One million youth of Pakistan could get benefits from the program.

She said Pakistan is emerging as an IT-leader in the world and government is committed to enlighten the future of our young generation with the use of latest technology.

Earlier, while welcoming the guests, Dr. Naveed A Malik, Rector VU apprised the audience about the University and its capabilities to handle mega projects such as “DigiSkills”.

While addressing the audience, Mr. Yusuf Hussain, CEO, IGNITE acknowledged the capacity and potential of Virtual University of Pakistan to undertake such mega project. He also congratulated for VU for winning the project through a competitive bidding and coming up on top against 6 bidders that also included foreign entities. He further talked about Artificial Intelligence that will be a very important part of such project in future.

Later, an agreement signing took place at the Prime Minister Secretariat in the presence of Prime Minister Mr. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Dr. Naveed A. Malik, Rector Virtual University of Pakistan and Mr. Yusuf Hussain, CEO · Ignite - National Technology Fund signed the MoU for DigiSkills Training Program.

For more details regarding the project, please visit digiskills

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Benefits for trainee's after they graduate from this program

With great knowledge of all offered subjects Akhuwat will offer interest free loans of upto Rs. 1 Lakh, to the graduates of this program. Potential candidates are requested to contact the following website.

www.akhuwat.org.pk

Courses Duration

We are excited to announce the roll out of the trainee registration process of the DigiSkills Program starting 30th May, 2018. Trainees will have the option to register for a maximum of two courses in every batch that will span a period of three (3) months each. The Freelancing course has been made compulsory for every trainee. Trainees will be able to enroll for any other two courses in the subsequent batches.

Procedure to apply

Simply visit http://digiskills.pk/
Signup and create a digiskills account
login to Digiskill LMS https://lms.digiskills.pk/Login.aspx
Select your courses and you are good to go!

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The Latest Trend In Email security

VU Student Support at 23:04:00

As we know that in this technology world we are going ahead and ahead day by day finding new techniques and innovative ideas for giving us more and more possibilities of doing things in a better way. Sometimes these techs have a bad side to like hacking, phishing, Ransomware etc. So, today's topic is on one of our mostly daily used e-mail this is the most common thing we use professionally and non-professional in our daily life we use it in our home, Schools, Collages and Offices. Means we login everywhere and forget to logout sometimes as we are humans it is is in our nature to forget things sometimes as we are not programmed! 😉

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Here comes the issue that how we secure email….

Now I am going to introduce you guys two step verification with google authentication app. I was in love with this app in first sight it is amazing provides better internet security as our internet is all our online accounts out there.

How google authentication works?

For this first you need to turn on two step verification in google by going to My account → Sign in and security → Password & sign-in method → two step verification and turn it on. Now once you are done with that choose the method “Google Authenticator App” the next step will show you a bar code now stop here.

Get the app from google play store (also available on IOS) download it run the bar code reader in the app from the menu and put it on your monitor/display and let app do the magic bravo! You successfully setup the two step verification.

Now whenever you login to your email account firstly you will be asked the password as usual then a authentication code. The code changes in every 1 sec in Google Authenticator App and its 100% offline no internet required for this (the barcode reading processes needs internet connection on your phone) get the code from app write it and you are done.