I AM DIGITAL, SO WHAT?

From Kabissa blogs Sat Jul 12 2014, 20:17:07

During a session with some National Youth Service members (in Nigeria, it is mandatory for all graduates to serve the nation for one year after graduation), we were talking about the fact that Africa has to develop quickly in order to take her place in the committee of nations globally. The major complaint was that we are too far behind and that the playing field is not level. At that point I asked them how many of them have used the internet to improve on where they left off in school, because I noticed that most of them had smart phones.

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