Providing capacity-building, vocational ICT skills is at the heart of the activities of the Digital Alliance. But the objective is not to fill the world with programmers, web designers or even network administrators. The aim is to help people learn how to use ICT's to improve their lives. In some cases that might mean careers in the ICT sector, in many other cases it means learning to use the Internet, cell phones or e-mail to improve the quality of their lives in a rural villages.

we have developed a series of skills and occupational standards that map to existing, recognized certification programs and best practices. It is important to note that the Digital Alliance only rarely trains ends or students directly. We are committed to the leveraged training model whereby we train local trainers who in turn train local populations in culturally sensitive and regionalized materials.

This leveraged training model will allow the Digital Alliance the ability to facilitate and coordinate the training of more than a 1,000,000 end users/students by 2017. Dependeding the on the needs of the community these students range from the secondary to the post secondary age range.

In all cases, the Digital Alliance cooperates with local governments and educational authorities to supplement existing programs and not attempt to replace them.

"If you give
a man a fish
he will eat
for a day,
if you teach
a man to fish
you will feed him for a lifetime."

- Chinese Proverb