Digital evolution now creating more career choices

The evolution of the digital world that has brought with it many changes in the communication and information world is opening doors to what would have seemed impossible 10 years ago.

The most impressive thing is the jobs that are now being created giving opportunity to youth to access employment.

This in the process has reduced the unemployment rate across the world as well as bringing about the desired social and economic impact.

Digital evolution has opened opportunities for consultation agencies, advertising agencies, Software Companies, mobile app and many others.

Speaking to Success, George John who is the co-founder of a startup tech known as ‘Dalali App’ says the digital evolution has given opportunity to innovative individuals to create projects which have created both temporary and permanent jobs.

George who majored in Computer Science is currently employed but together with a group of friends came up with the idea of the App which is something that he does as a side job to make ends meet. “Although it is something extra but there are people who have been able to develop a career out of the project that we have created and are able to earn a living for themselves,” says George.

According to George the App brings together individual who are either selling, buying or renting properties together with Real estate agents. Agents are required to register and upload anything they have available in the market and post them on the app, and an individual who hasn’t found what they are looking for can also place their orders.

This platform has opened opportunity a formal platform for them to be able to reach more people in short period, this has also established a career for most who were used to doing things informally”.

Reuben Mbwiga is the chairperson for ‘Dalali App’, he says the reason why he joined digital platform is because it provides opportunity for solution technology.

“Digital evolution provide easy solution for problems and can reach a wide range of people in only a short period of time, example in education, health or real estate at the same time building career for those in charge,” he said.

Reuben who is responsible for all the long term decisions for the startup said the digital evolution has established career grounds for different fields.

According to him for a digital evolution to even be possible there are different skills that are required to create careers in the field.

He believes digital evolution has opened opportunity for data scientist because they are the ones making the revolution possible.

“This group in the digital world are responsible for taking care of how much data is used, how is the data used and how much data is required, without the necessary data then the problem in question won’t be solved,” he said.

Reuben says both digital or technical engineers are now required more than ever before.

“These individuals are responsible for all the designs, hardware and software creation,” he says.

“Another career that has blossomed are researchers. Researchers make it possible for the data collected to be translated and also play an important role in collection of data,” he explains.

Marketing according to him is a key factor especially after the creation because the world has to know that the app exists.

Lilian Madeje the Co-founder of ‘Niajiri App’ the digital revolution has enabled her to start something which will help build and provide career opportunities as well as provide competitive candidates to companies. “I believe through the Niajiri App I will be able to bring changes in the world of employment in the country and I believe through digital evolution I will be able to reach a lot of youth and companies within a short period,” says Madeje.

Niajiri App provides placements for young people especially graduates by connecting them with companies who later introduce them to the graduate trainee or internship program. Madeje says the digital evolution in my case will not only help me establish my career but also the career of thousands of youth who will get an opportunity to be paced with different companies to begin their career journey”.

Janet Mwalemba an IT Specialist from Mbeya who believes digital evolution is a revolution, stating that in this era of digital transformation the opportunities created have fueled the growth of the economy.

“Digital revolution have significant impact on both the economy and society. It plays a great role towards economic growth, job creation, increased productivity, and have significant impact on inclusion and poverty reduction,” says Mwalemba.

According to her the building block toward achieving digital transformation is through availability of affordable broadband internet as well as capable individuals.

Explaining on how Tanzania catching up with the evolution of the digital world the University of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre (UCC) Branch Manager Mr Athuman Hamis said the country still has a long way to go.

According to him still there still people who do not have access to means that will allow them to use the technology and there are some who have access but lack the knowledge on how to use it.

“There are people who are very innovative and have creative ideas that can contribute a lot towards the digital evolution but it happens that most lack the knowledge on where to start or who they should consult in order to be able to work on their ideas,” said Mr Hamis.

Mr Hamis states that more emphasis should be promoted on the opportunity that are available and how digital evolution makes it easy for people to obtain certain information for more people to look at it breakthrough and not something that is only done by a few.

Speaking on how job have been created through the evolution Mr hamis said so far has created chances which without them a great number would have been in the list of unemployed.

“For the evolution process to even be possible there a number of people behind who makes everything possible, there individual who have obtained careers out of the digital system and something which was not there 10 or 20 years ago,” he said.

Furthermore Mr Hamis added that because of the emerging of digital evolution that is institution and centers such as UCC are available so as to provide knowledge to individual who will be able to create software, web programmers as well as people who will be responsible for maintenance.

“Us at UCC we are all here because of the digital evolution, it has enabled us to create career for our self and we are also using our knowledge to create careers for the younger generation all which would not have been possible without the digital evolution,” he said