CONNECT-EDUCAIT

Hiring digital-skilled workers is challenging for rural small businesses, as they often rely on local IT expertise for their IT needs. CONNECT-EducaIT aims to address this gap by instilling foundational IT skills (example: problem solving) to high schoolers in rural communities taught by active university IT graduates.

The platform encourages rural students to stay in school by offering a personalised, lifelong digital learning experience. CONNECT-EducaIT creates a local talent pool to support small businesses and rural communities with reliable, homegrown digital expertise through one-to-one teaching, automated skill assessments, and personalised skill portfolios in the form of a digital skills wallet service.