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c. Implement teaching of digital skills so that the youth could be qualified for the
present and future digital jobs;
3. Calls for schools in underdeveloped countries to receive funds or donations of
technologies, specifically computers, encouraging:
a. At least 0.0005% of each member State's GDP to be used to provide schools
with computers and train students and teachers in the usage of technological
skills,
b. Annual allocations amounting to provision of computers to at least 100 schools
in the country a year,
c. Private companies to donate used devices and offer a 27.5% discount for youth
who wish to buy devices,
d. Teachers to be trained in digital skills through NGOs;
4. Hopes for countries to subsidize technological companies within their country to lower
the cost of the technology;
5. Suggests collaborating with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to
equitably distribute and provide countries with advanced and adapted technologies,
while prioritizing the youth in terms of access, in order to make sure the youth has equal
access to advanced technologies, in other words, that there is no exclusivity and
inequality between States;
6. Supports the creation of annual conferences where at least 5 private companies must
be invited to promote and highlight the importance of this issue, funded by the UN;
7. Calls for the promotion of financial or material donations to develop digital
technologies in less developed countries;
8. Invites less developed countries to promote the creation of jobs that involve skills
relevant to the fourth industrial revolution such as digital skills or software development;
9. Invites member States and NGOs to come up with innovative practices that will provide
the youth with ICT based digital skills that will allow them to be qualified for jobs related
to the Internet of Things (IoT) such as platform development, data analysis, or
programming;
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