Inside Imo Digital City where youths assemble phones, learn digital skills
Imo Digital City in Nigeria is a state-sponsored innovation hub focused on training youth in digital skills and assembling local electronics. The facility aims to boost the digital economy by producing tech professionals and manufacturing devices under the ImoSys brand.
Why it matters
It highlights government-led efforts to foster local technology manufacturing and youth employment in emerging economies.
At first glance, Imo Digital City looks like a technology training centre. But beyond the classrooms are facilities where smartphones are assembled, drones are built, startups are developing digital solutions and thousands of young people are acquiring skills for careers in the digital economy.
The facility was one of the major attractions during the Presidential Media Tour of Projects in Imo State, organised by the Renewed Hope Ambassadors (RHA) in collaboration with the Presidential Media Team to showcase projects being implemented under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda . The tour had earlier covered Ebonyi, Enugu and Abia states.
Guiding journalists round the complex, the Commissioner for Digital Economy and E-Government, Dr. Chimezie Amadi, described the project as one of Governor Hope Uzodimma’s signature investments aimed at empowering young people through technology and innovation.
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