The Federal Government has launched a National Digital Literacy Dashboard to monitor interventions, identify gaps and track progress towards achieving 70 percent digital literacy by 2027 and 95 percent by 2030.
Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), unveiled the dashboard at the National Digital Literacy for All (DL4ALL) workshop in Abuja.
The workshop was themed “Measuring Progress, Strengthening Partnerships, Accelerating Impact”.
Inuwa said the dashboard would provide a unified platform for government agencies, technology companies, educational institutions, development partners and civil society organizations to report their digital literacy interventions.
He explained that the initiative would help eliminate duplication of efforts, identify gaps in service delivery and ensure that resources were directed towards communities with the greatest need for digital skills training.
“Our ambition is to achieve 95 percent digital literacy by 2030. But ambition without measurement is not enough,” he said.
According to him, the latest dashboard data showed that 248 organizations had reported approximately 2.76 million training achievements since January 2022, with interventions recorded across the 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory and all 774 local government areas.
However, he noted that women accounted for only 32.9 percent of recorded participation, underscoring the need to make digital literacy programs more inclusive.
Inuwa stressed that digital literacy should go beyond teaching people how to operate digital devices to equipping them with skills that improve their livelihoods and productivity.
“Nigeria’s greatest resource is our human capital. Our future prosperity will depend on how effectively we develop their capabilities and create opportunities for them to contribute,” he said.
He added that the program’s success should be assessed by how beneficiaries applied the skills they acquired to improve their businesses, workplaces, and daily lives.
“The measure of success is not the number of trained people, but the number of empowered people,” he said.
Also speaking, Mr Oladejo Olawunmi, Director of the Digital Development Services Department, said the dashboard would strengthen accountability by bringing previously fragmented interventions under a common reporting framework.
Olawunmi said stakeholders needed to move beyond counting the number of people trained to evaluating the competencies they acquired and how effectively they applied them in their daily lives.
Lailah Sanusi, Research Lead at Digitalcore Nigeria Ltd., said about 75 percent of recorded beneficiaries were below 35 years, while women accounted for approximately 32 percent.
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She said available records indicated that the number of beneficiaries of digital literacy training had risen from about 707,000 in 2022 to 2.7 million as of Oct. 16, 2026.
Sanusi added that the reported interventions had reached communities across the country, noting that the data would help stakeholders identify areas requiring additional investment.
The DL4ALL initiative, launched in 2024, seeks to expand digital skills development across formal education, the workforce and the informal sector.
