MTN Empowers Teenagers with Technology Skills

MTN Nigeria has reiterated its commitment to impact future technology skills to teenagers between the ages of nine and 14 years, through its MTN mPulse Planet programme that was introduced last year.

Running for the second year, MTN mPluse Planet is designed to expose teens with future technology like Robotics, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Online Gaming, Driverless Cars, among others.

Speaking at the second edition of the MTN mPulse Planet, which held in Lagos recently, the Chief Operating Officer, MTN Nigeria, Mazen Mroue, explained how MTN is impacting future technology skills on Nigerian teens through its solution called the mPulse.

According to him, “The plan is to give attention to teens between the ages of nine years and 14 years, to offer them future technology skills that are designed to expose the teens to digital skills of the future. Its one year after we launched mPulse and it has been very successful so far, hence we continued with it this year. We had over 5,000 participants this year that attended the the mPulse Planet and they were all exposed to the technology of the future which is Robotics, AR, VR, Online Gaming, among others.”

“Since they are teens, they are exposed to all the future technologies, designed to shape their thinking and prepare them for the future. The idea is to expose them to the new technologies that will help them make future decisions on their preferred choice of career,” Mroue added.

He noted that as market leader in the telecommunication sector, MTN would continue to take opportunity to enhance the foundation of teens and prepare them for the future.

“For us, connectivity is key to every Nigerian and it is our duty to provide connectivity to all Nigerians, and give them access to future technology.

Our role as MTN is to look at the different demographics and find ways to present new technologies to the people through our 3G and 4G enabled technologies,” Mroue added.

General Manager, Consumer Marketing, MTN Nigeria, Mr. Oluwole Rawa, said the essence was to impact digital skills on young Nigerians, which is a shift from the old ways of our educational system that is more of theoretical than practical.

According to Rawa, MTN had long discovered that children learn faster when taught with technology devices, which he said, informed the decision of the telecoms company to displayed different kinds of practical learning tools in this year mPulse Planet that attracted over 5,000 participants.