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Best Digital Skills to Learn in 2023

By
Ojukwu Emmanuel
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There is no disputing the fact that the world is rapidly evolving and this has led to the rise of new digital skills.

Advanced technology is already shaping the world, which has brought a change in the way we do things. The business world has witnessed a paradigm shift as a lot of businesses are going digital to be able to keep up with the pace of today’s world.

In the workplace, the nature of jobs is changing, and the transition has influenced the growth of new skills (digital). Having a digital skill in today’s world cannot be overemphasized as it has become a necessity for one to advance his or her career.

There is no other better time to acquire relevant skills than now because for one to stay relevant, one has to possess a digital skill.

Being reluctant about acquiring a digital skill will only lead to redundancy in one’s career and also lead to so many missed opportunities as well as earning meager pay from low quality jobs.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that the number of jobs requiring digital skills will increase by 18 percent. Also, a report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), revealed that about 230 million jobs in sub-Saharan Africa will require some level of digital skills in 2030.

While some think that their level of digital knowledge is good for the workplace, research has disclosed that 52% of employees lack important digital skills. Before giving you a rundown of the five (5) best digital skills to learn in 2023, let’s define what digital skills are.

Digital skills

Google defines “digital skills as the skills needed to use digital devices, communication applications and networks to access and manage information, from basic online searching and emailing to specialist programming and development”.

Here is a list of Top (5) best Skills to learn in 2023

1.) Software Development

Software development refers to a set of computer science activities dedicated to the process of creating, designing, deployment and supporting software. It is the process programmers use to build computer programs.

A software developer is a person or company engaged in the software development process. Software development has been reported to be a high demand skill globally which comes with a very good salary. It can be faster to get a job as a software developer, compared to other skills, and one can easily monetize this skill on freelancing platforms.

2.) Data Analyst

Data has no doubt changed the face of our world over the last decade as businesses and organizations are increasingly depending on data to make critical business decisions, which is why Data analysis is a top demand skill to learn in 2023.

Data analysis has been rated as one of the top demand skills worldwide as data analysts are sought after by big organizations globally. Data analysts typically move on to higher positions like Senior data analysts, data scientists, business analysts, analytics manager, etc.

Higher responsibilities come with a substantial pay rise. It is reported that the average annual salary of data scientists starts at around $73,528. It is interesting to note that some of the world’s top companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google all have data analysts.

3.) UX Designer/ Product Design

The user experience (UX) design is the process design teams used to create products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users. It also involves integrating the product, including aspects of design, branding, usability and function.

The UX designer creates a friendly/compelling experience for users of a product. Reports reveal that the demand for UX designers is steadily increasing. In 2020 LinkedIn ranked it as one of the top 5 demand skills, while Glassdoor added it as one of the best 50 skills to have.

Also, CNN predicted that the demand for UX designers will grow by 13% from 2017-2027. In order to maintain a competitive edge in today’s world, a lot of businesses are being forced to invest more into their UX in order to maintain a competitive world. One of the best ways to search for UX design jobs, is to do some quick searches on sites like LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor.

If you are considering pursuing a career in UX design, be rest assured that your prospects as a new UX professional are promising, especially if you can cultivate a skill set that set you apart. The demand for the skill is high. UX designers are one of the most in-demand positions in technology, with 87 percent of hiring managers stating that acquiring UX designers is a top priority.

4.) Digital Marketing Specialist

A digital marketing specialist is someone who is responsible for developing and managing digital marketing strategies and campaigns. Also, a digital marketing specialist works alongside a company’s marketing team to identify a target market, create a brand image and also create and maintain a marketing campaign for the internet and for digital technologies.

This is a top demand skill, as every business needs to make more sales, as such, a digital marketer is needed to help promote software, websites and mobile app that has been built by the programmer. The digital marketing specialist role is among the top 10 most in-demand jobs, with over 860,000 job openings.

The most requested experience in digital marketing includes social media, content strategy, analytics, SEO,  and more. Globally, digital marketing expertise is the number one skill by marketers on their LinkedIn profile.

5.) AI & Machine Learning

AI is considered one of the top three skills for the future, as employers are always on the lookout for people who possess such skills. The aviator creating a machine learning algorithm is also a key skill for companies.

AI and machine learning jobs have jumped by almost 75 percent over the past four years and have been predicted to keep growing. Industries across the globe are already using AI and machine learning.

Conclusion

Having any digital skill in today’s world has become a necessity, as it helps to create financial independence and also helps to implement technology to advance one’s career

As the world is rapidly evolving, any individual with a digital skill has a better advantage over those who don’t. Through digital skills, most barriers are broken which enables one to communicate and deliver products without any restrictions.

Technology has come to stay. It is wise for one to ensure that they are equipped with a digital skill to be able to easily navigate the fast-paced digital world.

Politics and Prayer: New Insights from Osun 2022 Governorship Election Tribunal

By
Mutiu Iyanda
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Osun local government

Politics and prayer are siamese twins, whether in the global north or the global south. However, the forceful marriage of the two elements in the course of gaining power differs between the two global classifications of nations. There are also some differences in how prayer is used in relation to playing politics, particularly during election and festive periods.

From Ghana, a West African country, to China, an emerging superpower country in the global south, citizens are being called to participate in prayer sessions to end turbulent times and enhance development. This is also true for Nigeria, Kenya and other countries in the world. There is a National Prayer Breakfast in the United States of America, a Washington tradition that asks political combatants to set aside their differences for one morning. The United Kingdom, like the United States, has Prayer Breakfast, an annual prayer session at the start of Parliament’s activities.

In Africa, our analyst notes that call for prayer is usually initiated by politicians, religious leaders and people who hold certain traditional authorities in their respective domains. Our analyst specifically highlights the prayer offering trajectory, which includes new year celebrations, religious festivals, before election campaign, before swearing in, before beginning administration, after winning elections, being in tribunal, court of appeals, and supreme court towards regaining lost ballots. However, according to our analyst, politicians rarely call members of their political parties to pray after losing an election battle, which could be interpreted as a form of gratitude for what God has done for them.

While politicians usually consider religious leaders and citizens as subjects of their prayer offering discourse, religious leaders also consider politicians and people whose actions have the potential to destabilize peace and progress as subjects. In this regard, our analyst notes that there is prayer offering struggle. Apart from the establishment of prayer offering struggle through subject selection, our analyst observes that, as exemplified by the recent call for prayer by the All-Progressives Congress and the negative reaction that followed it from the ruling People’s Democratic Party in Osun State, Nigeria differs from the other countries in the global north mentioned previously where such practice was not discovered as of the time of writing this piece.

The party leadership uses one-way strategic organized persuasive communication, according to analysis of the statement made by the state’s APC chairman. Part of the statement reads: “It was necessary for the party to resort to supplications after having effected everything legally allowed at the tribunal for the retrieval of former Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s stolen mandate in the July 16, 2022 governorship election.” The chairman also enjoins members to pray for the state for the quick restoration of its lost and dwindling glory among the comity of other states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Further examination of the statement reveals that the party’s one-way strategic organized persuasive communication is laced with coerced consent. Since it is possible that some members will not participate in the fasting and prayer, our analyst believes that issuing the statement to all members rather than the key members who have benefited from the party over the years indicates coercion.

The chairman’s view that the state has lost its and is losing its glory compelled the members to exercise their “freedom to act.” However, one of the elements of deceived consent within organized persuasive communication is the inability to state categorically areas or sectors where the state’s fortunes have been dwindling. According to our analyst, the chairman successfully used a mix of white and black message construction.

An examination of the PDP chairman’s reaction reveals interpellation of the APC, its members, and God. In other words, the ruling party (PDP) regards the APC and its members as subjects of its reaction narrative.  “If APC is populated by true men of faith with spiritual capacity (deceived consent) to discern wave and efficacy of fasting and prayers, they would have accepted their fate foisted on them by God and man and moved on with their lives (deceived consent), instead of asking God to recount Himself after saying yes to prayers of the good people of Osun State, with the victory of Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke as Governor of the state. APC’s case as things stand in Osun state is like the law of nature promulgated by God Himself wherein; it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this judgment”.

DCG’s Subsidiary Company LUNO Global Holdings Announces 35% Lay-off

By
Paul Ugbede Godwin
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Digital Currency Group ‘DCG’ owned Crypto lending platform Genesis Global Trading filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy last week. Today, LUNO Global Holdings has announced it will slash 35% of its workforce— citing Crypto Market turbulence, LUNO is owned by DCG— alongside ZCash, Coinbase, Coindesk, Decentraland, Kraken, Lightening Network, Ripple, Etherscan, Blockstream and Ledger, et al part of these companies were invested on by DCG.

According to its LinkedIn page, Luno’s total headcount is about 960 people, which means more than 330 jobs will be affected. This follows a report on CoinDesk last week, that its cofounder and CTO had quietly resigned last year December.

Marcus Swanepoel, CEO at Luno Group Holdings said; LUNO has unfortunately not been immune to the recent Crypto Market turbulence, which has affected its growth and revenue numbers. In a letter to employees about the lay-offs, Marcus Swanepoel said some unforeseen and “very extreme events” have impacted the cryptocurrency industry.

As a result, we have to readjust our focus to maintaining our leadership position in our core markets, and continue to lay a strong yet sustainable foundation for the business as we prepare to come out of this current cycle in a very strong position.

This includes a global economic downturn coupled with an even bigger downturn in the tech sector overall. “And on top of that, not just an ‘ordinary’ crypto winter, but a series of shocks including Luna [Terra], Three Arrows, FTX and Alameda Research Implosion that have had an overall compounding effect on our industry”.

This impacted Luno in several ways:

On the capital side, a significantly more constrained funding environment, with the market’s focus shifting from long-term investment to shorter-term profitability.

On the operating side, a negative impact on market sentiment and consequently on growth and revenue for the business.

Swanepoel said it’s not only Luno Group Holdings that’s affected but all its peers and competitors.

While we anticipated a downturn and proactively planned ahead with a business and funding model that can be resilient to some of these factors, the sheer scale and speed of all of this happening, and all at the same time, has put significant strain on our original plan.

What this means in practice is that in addition to streamlining our strategy to focus on our core strengths, we need to also substantially decrease our cost base — which includes employee headcount in all of our markets — in order for us to be set up for success going forward.

In a related twist, Gemini Trading Co-Founder Cameron Winklevoss has said: Unless Barry and DCG make a fair offer to creditors, we will be filing a lawsuit against Barry and DCG imminently.

While we have been working around the clock to negotiate an acceptable solution, Barry Silbert and DCG — the parent company of Genesis – continue to refuse to offer creditors a fair deal.

Grayscale, DCG’s subsidiary holdings sued the SEC almost immediately after its proposal was denied, claiming that the regulator was acting arbitrarily in rejecting the applications for Spot Bitcoin ETFs when it had previously approved Bitcoin Futures ETFs.

Consequently, SEC is looking at the block pledge and subsequent sale of $GBTC affected by Genesis Trading and Gemini. “Blatant disregard for Reg. 144 and easy case that disadvantaged regular investors via both time and price considerations.”

Interestingly, Binance has reportedly eliminated DCG’s ability to TWAP trade and potentially trade altogether on its Exchange. However, with upheaval happening in the Crypto Industry, Price actions on Bitcoin, Ethereum and other solid Altcoins does not consolidate with these recent Crypto turbulent events.

Singularity, ChatGPT and Business – Join Us At Tekedia Mini-MBA

By
Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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LensProtocol Acquires Sonar to Stimulate its ‘Creator’s Economy’ Push

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Paul Ugbede Godwin
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LensProtocol, the blockchain social media network of lending unit Aave Protocol, has effectively acquired NFT mobile gaming app Sonar. But specifics of Aave’s initially merger have been stored beneath wraps. LensProtocol will integrate with Sonar’s avatar method – emoji “mojis” – to develop a new identity for their metaverse.

Users can accessibility Sonar applying Lens, the ad says. Listed Sonar at this time has twenty,000 month-to-month energetic customers and 1000’s of NFT holders.

Sonar’s NFT has raised a complete of 49 ETH in trading volume considering the fact that its launch in October 2021. This assortment has just more than one, 000 owners as of press time.

As portion of the deal, Sonar executives will “go to” Aave, proceed with the Lens develop crew, and produce other mobile social applications to launch in 2023.

In early May, Aave “ported” Lens Protocol to Polygon, not too long ago unexpectedly suspending the services to handle the higher gasoline tariff challenge on this blockchain. But today’s acquisition will assistance Lens broaden into mobile apps, raising marketplace share for its social media merchandise.

Ben South, Ex-Founder Sonar stated in his tweet on microblogging platform Twitter about the acquisition that; “It became clear to us that all the building blocks to transform the way we connect online are right there on Lens. We’re excited to help figure out the configurations that are approachable and familiar to anyone”.

LensProtocol is annexing the Creators Economy into its bidding, Lens user earns an average of $112 through an average of three posts along with mirror and follow revenue. If you have 1k+ followers and 10k+ tweets and are still not getting paid for the cool contents you publish, then you’ll have to switch tent or make reevaluation.

Revenue generated by “Collect Mirrored” is actually shared between the original post creator and mirror user. The referral fees that the mirror user received various on different posts, LensProtocol is less about the platform more about the creator.

Perpetually, LensProtocol lets you plug into a well-connected social graph for any dapp without the need for onboarding users and filling out profiles. The same team behind AaveAave also built Lens. Their goal? To be the last social media handle you’ll ever need.

The ability to easily source a social graph can’t be understated. Users can swap from apps like Lenstubexyz to Lensterxyz and bring all their followers, friends, and posts with them. This will change how we interact with social media as a whole.

LensProtocol also has the power to bootstrap non-social media apps. Web2 apps are forced to build out a social graph. Take Venmo, Spotify, Duolingo for example. Lens can replace all this and let users import their existing social network.

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