Letshego launches digital academy
As part of efforts to help the economy and close the skills gap, Letshego has announced plans to open a digital academy next year. Letshego Board Chairman, Enos Banda said the initiative is meant to create a new generation of Africans who are future ready. Slated to open doors in the first quarter of 2022, the initiative dubbed Letshego Digital Academy, is expected to attract individuals with enthusiasm, energy and a sense of curiosity “We want our communities to be future ready, whether they work for us or not,” said Banda, adding that the project cannot be viewed as a corporate social responsibility engagement but sharing the company resources with communities. “It is an extension of our culture. We are not doing something that we are not doing for ourselves. We want to empower people in our digital journey that we have embarked on,” said Banda. With operations in eleven countries - Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Eswatini, Tanzania and Uganda , Banda said the pilot project of the academy will start with ten individuals in Botswana next year. Over the past two years, Letshego has accelerated its digital adoption level to 74 percent as at the end of June 2021 compared to 30 percent in the first half of 2020. The company has attributed the digitisation hike to the deployment of digital platforms, which include WhatsApp, Webforms, and LetsGo Digital platform. In addition, the company’s front line employees, Digital Eagles have also helped spur the increase through educating customers on digital access. The rise in Letshego’s digital drive also forms part of the company’s blueprint 6-2-5, adopted under the new chief executive officer, Andrew Okai, appointed beginning of 2020, to help transform the company in its 11 subsidiary markets. Under the new blueprint, on Plan 2, Letshego intends to increase investment into digital and strategic partnerships towards year end and into 2022, supporting further system and product enhancements. Meanwhile, Letshego has partnered with Panamax to rollout ‘LetsGoPAY Digital Account’ to customers across the financial services provider’s footprint with almost three million enterprise active customers by 2025.LetsGoPay is expected to be a comprehensive ‘digital account’ to enable customers to send and receive money, save and borrow instantly.