A movement for youth, women and entrepreneurs
Empowering people. Building businesses. Creating future-ready communities.
A practical Digital Entrepreneurship and Applied AI programme that equips youth, women and business owners to use technology to create value, increase income and build sustainable opportunities.
Why this programme, why now
The challenge is no longer access to information.
It is: can people turn knowledge into opportunity?
Can a young person…
- Identify a digital opportunity?
- Develop a marketable skill?
- Use AI to increase productivity?
- Create and market a service?
- Build a professional digital presence?
- Start a small business or earn from an existing skill?
Can an existing business owner…
- Attract customers online?
- Create better marketing content?
- Use AI to save time?
- Understand customers better?
- Improve business operations?
- Increase sales without simply increasing costs?
This programme is designed to answer those questions — practically.
Core training pathways
Pathways to participate in the digital economy
Human-led, AI-assisted: AI can help generate ideas and drafts, but the learner reviews, improves, validates, and owns the final decision.
Digital Entrepreneurship & Opportunity Development
Online business models, digital markets and emerging income opportunities — how to spot them and turn skills into income.
Video Editing & Content Creation
Create and edit engaging video content that communicates ideas, builds visibility and turns creativity into opportunity.
Artificial Intelligence & Application
Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve productivity, solve problems, support decisions and deliver business value.
Virtual Assistance & Global Opportunities
Provide remote administrative, operational and digital support services to entrepreneurs, businesses and organisations.
Website Design & Development
Create professional, functional websites that support business visibility, credibility and growth.
Administrative & Secretarial Digital Support
A common foundation in digital literacy that improves communication, administrative support and workplace performance.
Programme formats
Choose the format that fits your community
1 day
Digital Enterprise & AI-Powered Business Growth for Women
Discover opportunities and build awareness
Practical enterprise development for women small business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs and informal sector operators.
1 day
Digital Entrepreneurship & Applied AI for Youth
Discover opportunities and build awareness
A high-impact introduction to digital entrepreneurship, AI fundamentals and pathways to digital income.
3 days
Practical Digital Skills & AI Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Practice, create and apply
Intensive hands-on training where participants work with digital and AI tools and build real, practical output.
1 day
Digital Mastery for Secretaries & Administrative Professionals
Improve workplace efficiency
Digital office productivity, professional correspondence and AI-assisted document preparation for administrative professionals.
Delivery approach
Highly practical — never purely theoretical
01
Learn
Participants understand the concept.
02
See
Facilitators demonstrate the application.
03
Practise
Participants work with the tools.
04
Apply
Knowledge applied to a real business, skill or career objective.
05
Build
Participants leave with something practical they can keep developing.
Expected impact
Impact at three levels
Individual level
- New skills
- Increased confidence
- Greater digital awareness
- Entrepreneurial knowledge
- AI literacy
- New income possibilities
Business level
- Better digital visibility
- Improved marketing capability
- Greater productivity
- Better customer engagement
- New ways of using AI
- Improved business systems
Community level
- A more digitally capable population
- Stronger micro and small businesses
- Better equipped young people
- More entrepreneurship awareness
- Greater participation in the digital economy
- A more future-ready community
From our cohorts
Learning in action
Leadership, instructor, and learner support
Our Team
Folabi Oladapo
Covener, Arise and Ascend Initiative
Victor Adegbile
Head of Operations