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Opportunity Description

Currently, applications are open to overseas students for various online courses. This self-study, online workshops, seminars, and capacity-building courses are offered in collaboration with national agencies, international organizations, regional development banks, and civil society organizations. International students can enroll in these online programs, which are available to all students, regardless of their degree.

Completing these courses can benefit you in several ways. For example, if you have completed an online course, you can upload and present that certificate when you apply for jobs, fellowships, scholarships, and other opportunities.

Upon finishing these online courses, you may be eligible to get a certificate of completion. Almost every academic discipline, course, and major is open to applications. The candidate applying for a short-term course will not be charged any fees. Examine free online courses covering a range of topics. Choose a course to find out more. You can find all the details regarding these programs below.

Brief Details

• Format: Online and in-person
• Deadline: Various
• Gender: Male and Female
• Course Fee: Free of Cost
• Type: Courses, Workshops, Seminars, Self-study, and capacity building
• Eligible Nations: Different Countries

Types of Courses:

Courses, workshops, seminars, self-study, and capacity-building offers from their partners:

• Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Divide
• UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in Action
• Fundamentals of regulation of digital markets
• Strive Community Ecommerce Training
• Digital Footprints Course
• Digital 101 – Digital Technologies
• E-Commerce: A facilitating guide for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
• Industry 4.0: An Introduction
• E-commerce Disciplines for Policy Makers
• Creating Quality E-commerce Content
• Empowering African Digital Diplomacy
• Introduction to E-commerce
• How to Access International Markets
• Internet Technology and Policy: Challenges and Solutions
• Advanced Diploma in Internet Governance
• E-Commerce for your B2B Business
• Internationalization of Digital Businesses
• E-Commerce for SMEs: An Introduction for Policymakers
• Cybersecurity online course

Websites and Information about Online Courses From eTrade for All:

1: Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Divide

Overview:

Infrastructure is vital for thriving economies, enhancing competitiveness, and boosting trade and investment. The digital infrastructure gap, exacerbated by COVID-19, is a significant barrier to economic development in the developing world and across the Commonwealth.

Type: Self-Paced Online Course

Offered by: The Commonwealth

Availability: Ongoing; enroll anytime.

Course Highlights

• Developed by the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda Physical Connectivity Cluster, led by The Gambia.
• Introductory-level, self-paced e-learning course.
• Aims to:
  • Explain the role of infrastructure in economic development.
  • Analyze the impact of the digital infrastructure divide.
  • Identify policy issues for post-COVID-19 digital infrastructure needs.

Benefits

The course is introductory level and aims to enable participants to:

• Recognize the crucial role that infrastructure, particularly digital infrastructure, plays in economic development.
• Analyze the effects of the digital infrastructure gap at the local, state, and Commonwealth levels.
• To execute the requirements for digital infrastructure at the national level, identify pertinent policy concerns for the post-COVID-19 recovery.

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2: UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in Action

The UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments course offers an in-depth understanding of the nine key principles guiding responsible digital payments. It is a practical guide for governments, companies, and international organizations to build trust, mitigate risks, and foster inclusive economies.

Type: Self-Paced, Online

Offered by: UNCDF

Course Duration: Each module takes 25 minutes, totaling 3-4 hours

Digital Certificate: Yes, participants receive a certificate upon course completion

Course Outcomes:

• Understand the significance of responsible digital payment principles.
• Analyze case studies from various entities.
• Identify solutions for applying the principles in different contexts.
• Propose strategies to address challenges and incorporate solutions.

Course Outline:

1. Treat users fairly
2. Ensure funds are protected and accessible
3. Prioritize women
4. Safeguard client data
5. Design for individuals
6. Be transparent, especially around pricing
7. Provide user choice through interoperability
8. Ensure clear, quick, and responsive recourse
9. Champion value change accountability

Note: Each principle is covered in a dedicated module. Participants can choose the order of modules.

Course Delivery:

• Videos explaining each principle
• Case studies on practical implementation
• Interactive tasks and self-assessment questions
• Final multiple-choice quiz

Target Audience:

• Policymakers
• Corporate representatives
• Community leaders
• Development sector professionals
• Aspiring professionals

Benefits:

At the end of the self-paced learning course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the guidelines for responsible digital payments and explain their importance.
• Examine the concepts for responsible digital payments used by other governments, international organizations, and businesses in the existing case studies.
• Find answers to your problems while putting the rules for responsible digital payments into practice.
• Identify pertinent approaches to problems and apply them to your context.

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3: Fundamentals of regulation of digital markets

Overview

The course is part of the Agile Regulation for Digital Transformation in Africa (A.Reg4DT) program. Agile governance shifts policymaking from reactive to proactive, adapting to the fast pace of technological advancements. This multi-stakeholder approach ensures policies are adaptive, human-centered, inclusive, and sustainable.

By embracing agile regulation, African policymakers can unlock the digital economy’s potential and drive digital development across the continent.

Deadline: No deadline

Course: Fundamentals of Regulation of Digital Markets

Type: Self-Paced, Online

Provider: WBG

Program Alignment

• Digital Economy for Africa (DE4A) initiative
• African Union Digital Transformation Strategy
• Partners: BMZ/GIZ’s Africa Cloud/atingi, Smart Africa’s Digital Academy

Key Focus Areas

The A.Reg4DT program emphasizes capacity building in five DE4A foundational pillars:

1. ICT Infrastructure: Connecting people, businesses, and governments.
2. Digital Platforms: Providing accessible digital products and services.
3. Digital Financial Services: Enabling digital payments and transactions.
4. Digital Entrepreneurship: Fostering a growth-oriented startup ecosystem.
5. Digital Skills: Developing a digitally-savvy workforce.

Benefits

• ICT infrastructure to bring people, businesses, and governments online
• Digital platforms to offer digitally-accessible products and services for all aspects of life
• Digital financial services to allow people, businesses, and governments to pay and transact digitally
• Digital entrepreneurship to create an ecosystem of young, growth-oriented companies
• Digital skills to develop a digitally-savvy workforce and foster competitive markets)

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4: Strive Community Ecommerce Training

Overview

Welcome to the Strive Community’s E-commerce Training Toolkit. In ten easy modules, you’ll gain the essential knowledge to ensure your business thrives online. The course offers practical information, tools, and exercises that you can apply immediately.

TechnoServe created this program, financed by Strive Community, a worldwide philanthropy effort founded by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Caribou Digital to help 5 million small companies worldwide develop resilience and expand.

Deadline: No deadline

Format: Self-Paced Online

Designed by: TechnoServe

Funded by: Strive Community

Learning Flexibility: Choose and focus on the modules that suit your needs, progressing at your own pace.

Activities: Complete module activities and share them on ecomConnect.org’s Live Feed for expert feedback. Post your questions in the community for prompt answers.

Modules

1. Focusing on the right customers
2. Selling on the right online channels
3. Helping customers find your online business
4. Developing effective promotion strategies
5. Creating a profitable pricing strategy
6. Converting visitors into customers
7. Building customer trust in online sales
8. Maximizing sales
9. Meeting customer expectations
10. Ensuring repeat customers

Benefits

• Support 5 million small businesses globally to build resilience and grow.

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5: Digital Footprints Course

Overview

We leave digital footprints online daily, creating a public portrait of ourselves. This course helps you understand these trails, their impacts, and how to manage your digital identity.

This course will teach you about the many trails you leave on the Internet and how they may influence you. While having zero digital footprints is impossible, the initial steps toward decreasing your digital footprint and maintaining your digital identity are straightforward.

Deadline: All year

Format: Self-Paced, Online

Provider: Internet Society

Duration: Approximately 20 hours

Languages: English, French, and Spanish

Course Objectives

• Understand digital footprints and their implications.
• Learn how daily internet use contributes to digital footprints.
• Explore the economics of digital footprints.
• Examine privacy concerns online.
• Discover differences in digital footprints by device.
• Manage your digital footprint effectively.
• Identify who tracks you online and their methods.
• Understand global privacy laws and their effects on digital footprints.

Who Should Attend

This course is for anyone who:

• Wants to understand digital footprints.
• Wants to learn about the impact and implications of digital footprints.
• Aims to reduce and manage their digital identity online.

Benefits

• You want to understand what a digital footprint is.
• You would like to understand the implications and effects of your digital footprint.
• You want to reduce your digital footprint and manage your digital identity online. So apply now

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6: Digital 101 – Digital Technologies

Overview

Digital transformation involves adopting business processes and practices to help organizations compete effectively in an increasingly digital world. It requires implementing new technologies and transforming entire workflows and organizational structures to build and sustain digital services.

This course aims to build capacity among stakeholders by enhancing their understanding of existing and emerging digital technologies and their potential benefits, threats, and pitfalls.

Deadline: No deadline

Format: Self-Paced, Online

Provider:  The Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB or IADB)

Course Highlights

• Explain the meaning of the fourth industrial revolution.
• Understand the challenges of digital transformation for governments.
• Recognize the importance of digital transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Digital Badges

• Fundamentals
• Analytics
• Mimicking the Brain
• In the Cloud
• Immersive User Experience
• Bonus badge for completing all learning paths

Participant Requirements

These are available to residents of LAC IDB member countries and Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) members. They are designed for organizational representatives, directors, and staff but benefit anyone interested in digital technologies. IDB staff can register via the Mylearning portal.

Benefits

Throughout the course, students will be able to:

• Explain the meaning of the fourth revolution.
• Understand the challenges of digital transformation for governments.
• Understand why digital transformation is important in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
• This course offers five digital badges associated with five learning paths: Fundamentals, Analytics, Mimicking the Brain, In the Cloud, and Immersive user experience.

There is also one extra digital badge when you complete all the learning paths available in the course.

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7: E-Commerce: A facilitating guide for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Overview

This course provides a solid foundation in e-commerce basics, promoting increased adoption among SMEs. It covers innovative solutions like IoT, cloud computing, AI, Big Data, and 3D printing, which enable participation in advanced industrial processes. These technologies transform production into smart, digital networks, facilitating real-time management and customization, defining the new industrial revolution.

E-commerce is a key component of this revolution, linking manufacturers directly with customers and driving rapid global growth in the B2B and B2C sectors. The course benefits SMEs, policymakers, NGOs, and consumers. UNIDO encourages participants to engage with e-commerce platforms to boost their business performance.

Deadline: No deadline

Format: Self-Paced Online

Course by: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Course Modules

Module 1: Introduction to E-commerce

This module provides a comprehensive overview of e-commerce in BRICS countries. Participants will:

• Define and understand various interpretations of e-commerce.
• Differentiate between e-commerce and traditional commerce.
• Outline the benefits of e-commerce for different stakeholders.
• Understand the basic principles of e-commerce models.
• Learn about the latest e-commerce trends and barriers in BRICS.

Module 2: E-commerce Business Models and Strategies

This module covers established e-commerce business models and web-based strategies. Participants will understand:

• B2B, B2C, C2C, and B2G e-commerce.
• Mobile e-commerce and reverse auctions.
• Webpage-design strategies.
• Types of e-commerce stakeholders.

Module 3: E-commerce Logistical Components and Considerations

This module provides an overview of key e-commerce components. Participants will understand:

• The Internet and supply chain management.
• Warehouse operations and client relationship management.
• Digital marketing, shipping, disputes, returns, and cross-border logistics.

Module 4: Standards and E-commerce

This module introduces standardization in Quality Infrastructure. Participants will:

• Define standards and their types.
• Understand the benefits of standards for different stakeholders.
• Learn the relevance of standards in international trade (WTO framework).
• Explore opportunities and challenges of standards for developing countries.

Module 5: E-commerce Laws and Regulations

This module covers e-commerce laws and regulations. Participants will understand:

• E-signatures, consumer protection, data protection, and cybercrime from a government perspective.
• Frequently asked legal questions (FALQ) on cross-border e-commerce from an SME perspective.

Module 6: E-commerce Payment Modalities

This module reviews popular e-commerce payment methods. Participants will understand:

• Card payments, digital wallets, and mobile payments.
• SWOT analysis of digital and mobile wallets.

Module 7: E-commerce Threats and Security

This module addresses e-commerce threats and security measures. Participants will understand:

• E-commerce, client, communication channel, server, and mobile payment threats.
• General security recommendations.

Module 8: Step-by-Step Guidance on E-commerce Platforms

This module guides using e-commerce platforms. Participants will:

• Register themselves/their businesses on various platforms.
• Gain information on e-payments.
• Manage orders and understand aftersales mechanisms.
• Identify common mechanisms across e-commerce platforms.

Benefits

• This training course is intended to give a solid foundation in the fundamentals of e-commerce, with the goal of increasing e-commerce adoption among SMEs. Other target stakeholders, such as legislators, NGOs, and consumers, can benefit from the material in the training modules. UNIDO encourages members to engage with e-commerce platforms to improve the performance of their commercial and business operations.

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8: Industry 4.0: An Introduction

Overview

The rapid expansion of digital technologies has ushered in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), also known as Industry 4.0. This training course provides a solid foundation in Industry 4.0, focusing on its implications for developing countries, especially Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Industry 4.0 revolutionizes industrial production, making systems more dynamic, flexible, efficient, and sustainable. While it offers opportunities for resource efficiency and environmental sustainability, it also presents challenges, such as the displacement of routine jobs and the polarization of the labor market. This course aims to help developing countries and LDCs adapt and leverage the opportunities of Industry 4.0.

This six-module online training course is designed for governance, institutions, policymakers, SMEs, and individuals interested in new technologies. No advanced knowledge is required.

Deadline: No deadline

Format: Self-Paced, Online

Offered By: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Course Modules

Module 1: Context of Industry 4.0

• Introduction to Industry 4.0
• Historical perspective, megatrends, and key concepts
• Relevance to development and UNIDO’s role

Module 2: Important Elements of Industry 4.0

• Emerging technologies and their impact
• Sectorial applications in industries like automotive, agriculture, and energy

Module 3: The Business Perspective

• Adjusting business models for Industry 4.0
• Smart factories, production, trade, and global value chains (GVCs)
• Strategies for SMEs and large companies

Module 4: Implications of Industry 4.0

• Impact on work, employment, education, and skills
• Government policies and societal changes

Module 5: The Developing Country

• Challenges and leapfrogging opportunities for businesses
• Examples of Industry 4.0 applications in developing countries

Module 6: The Way Forward

• Actions for developing countries to benefit from Industry 4.0
• Roadmaps and innovation systems for the new revolution

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9: E-commerce Disciplines for Policy Makers

Overview

A course to build Forum Island Countries Officials’ skills on E-commerce laws and regulations. Your source for practical materials to support policymakers in the negotiation and implementation of E-commerce provisions in trade agreements.

Deadline: No deadline

Format: Online, self-paced

Provider: Pacific e-Commerce Initiative

Course Modules

This course consists of nine modules as follows:

1. Introduction to the Course: Overview of the course’s aims, objectives, and modalities.
2. Introduction to E-commerce: Basics of e-commerce, types, key business models, and main players.
3. E-commerce Negotiations: Basics, modalities, and approaches in international e-commerce negotiations.
4. E-commerce Rules
   • Typologies: Various e-commerce disciplines agreed upon or considered.
   • Levels: Different levels of e-commerce regulation and their significance.
5. WTO Work on E-commerce
   • Work Programme: Introduction to the WTO Work Programme on E-commerce.
   • JSI: Overview of the WTO JSI on E-commerce.
   • Feedback: Insights from a co-convener on the WTO JSI on E-commerce.
6. Regional Work on E-commerce
   • Efforts: E-commerce rule-making in regional trade (USMCA, ASEAN ECA).
   • Mega-regional: E-commerce rule-making efforts in mega-regional, regional, and bilateral contexts.
7. PIFS E-commerce Developments
   • Status Quo: Overview of e-commerce developments in the Pacific.
   • Strategy: Introduction to the PIFS Regional e-commerce strategy.
8. Particular Areas Covered by E-commerce Rules
   • Electronic Transactions: Frameworks, contracts, authentication, invoicing, and payments.
   • UNCITRAL Instruments: Interplay between relevant UNCITRAL Instruments and their scope.
   • Paperless Trade: Disciplines and opportunities around paperless trade regimes.
   • Data Disciplines: Business Trust, Open Networks, Data Disciplines, and personal data protection.
   • Cybersecurity: Key e-commerce disciplines in cybersecurity.
   • Digitizable Products: Moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions.
   • Market Access: IT goods and services, telecommunications disciplines, and movement of people.
9. Development Paradigm
   • Concerns: Types and implications of development concerns in e-commerce negotiations.
   • Provisions: Development and enabling provisions in JSI submissions and e-commerce rules.

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10: Green and Digital Entrepreneurship for Women

Overview

This training is designed for start-up and scale-up women entrepreneurs to develop digital green entrepreneurship skills and enhance economic empowerment. It covers green business concepts, the circular economy, sustainability, digital green concepts, greening supply chains, and green finance.

Target Audience

Aimed at women entrepreneurs but open to all. The course includes case studies and interviews with women entrepreneurs.

Deadline: No deadline

Provider: ITU Academy

Format: Self-Paced, Online

Entry Requirements: Open to all

Methodology: The course includes e-learning modules, interactive activities, quizzes, video interviews, real-life examples, and additional resources.

Evaluation and Grading: To earn the ITU badge, participants must score above 70% on six quizzes.

Modules

1. What is Digital Green Entrepreneurship? What are its definitions and importance for women entrepreneurs?
2. Key Principles of Green and Circular Economy: Detailed exploration of sustainability and circular economy principles.
3. Greening Your Business: Strategies for greening supply chains and leveraging digital technology.
4. Developing a Digital Green Business Model: Key questions for creating and validating a business model with potential customers.
5. Green Branding: Elements of a Green Brand Identity.
6. Green Finance: Overview of green finance and investment in green businesses.

Benefits

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand digital green entrepreneurship principles.
• Identify opportunities and benefits in digital green entrepreneurship.
• Implement strategies for green businesses using digital technologies.
• Develop digital green business models.
• Access funding and green finance.

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For more information and details regarding these courses, kindly refer to eTrade for All’s website.