OUR SOCIAL ACTION PROJECT STORY-NUML DIGITAL SKILLS SOCIETY

 NUML DIGITAL SKILLS SOCIETY

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

~Albert Pine

The last quarter of year has been really thrilling for us. With our fourth semester, we are heading towards the half-graduation of our four years bachelor program BS Public Administration and Governance. Social Action Project is our two credit hours compulsory course under the supervision of Dr. Athar Rashid, Assistant Professor G&PP Department, NUML, Islamabad. Social Action Project is a multi-purpose process undertaken to tackle a societal issue. Students through their actions contribute to the betterment of society and enhance their personal and collective efficacy.

After a struggling brainstorm, we finally coalited at the sparkling trend of the 21^st century, Digital Skills and Digital Literacy. Digital incorporates all the imaginable areas of our life. The importance of digital skills has never been conspicuous before the spread of global pandemic, amplifying the need for digital capacity building and skills development to cope up the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and the post pandemic circumstances. Post pandemic, the global job market culture has been remarkably changed shifting the paradigm from degree to skills. Skills development was the way forward at the time of crisis. It created self-employment and eradicated the job dependency empowering new vitalities for growth.

NUML Digital Skills Society is a Social Action Project with the sole motive of creating an enabling environment for youth towards the skill-oriented curriculum. It aims at empowering young people by magnifying their voices and enabling them to self-organize. The concept of reskilling and upskilling the youth paves a self-sustainable route with completely valuing the human labor. It highlights the importance of civic engagement in creative economy. We invest in mastering digital skills with confidence in easy and enjoyable manner to lead career prospects. NUML Digital Skills Society is in pursue of building a sustainable digital ecosystem and procurement of digital skills focusing SDG-4 and SDG-8.

We hope that our small step will stimulate the youth to develop best strategies to acquire benefit from this digital transformation. This initiative will serve as a steppingstone in our professional careers.

 “If a man would move the world, he must first move himself”. 

~Socrates