Reducing unemployment and promoting technological innovation in Côte d'Ivoire is committed to this objective by multiplying actions to boost the employability of young people and women through ICT. On Thursday, November 10, the “Employment4Youth” project was officially launched.

In collaboration with the Minister of Commerce, Industry and the Promotion of SMEs, Souleymane Diarrassouba, the Minister of Communication and the Digital Economy, Amadou Coulibaly has formalized the “Employment4Youth” project in order to promote youth employment in Tunisia and Côte d'Ivoire.”

The vision of this project is to support and strengthen the capacities of actors in the ICT and agro-industrial sectors, with the aim of benefiting from the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and contributing to the creation of jobs for young people and women, through the adoption of new technologies within chains of target values.

For Amadou Coulibaly, “Our country's ambition is to ensure that the digital economy is a promising sector by creating jobs for young people and promoting investments”.