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Free beginner courses

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Intermediate

Maxing out the Middle: Know the basics but want to sharpen your skills? Then this is the course for you.

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Advanced

It’s time to change the game! Stand out of the crowd with this Digital Marketing course.

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Specializations:

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ABOUT

DigiCon Academy is the education subsidiary of Blu Flamingo Digital Africa- a Pan-African digital marketing agency. The academy was borne out of the desire to secure employment for youth.

DigiCon Academy is a digital programs Academy designed to get professionals hired in today’s digital job market, by getting them ready with an understanding of the full digital marketing ecosystem—from Social Media Content Marketing, Search Marketing, to Paid Advertising and Analytics.

Vision: 1,300,000 African Youth Trained in Digital Skills By 2030

Mission: Supporting Digital Transformation Through Skills Training And Education.

STUDENTS

Joan Generous Isa Asaba

With verbal and written communication skills, Joan has strong client service and account management skills. She is innovative, and a strong team player, that creates strategies and manage online campaigns.

Birungi Grace

Grace is a social media executive with social media marketing, blogging, and content curation skills.

Lutalo Jonathan

Lutalo Jonathan is has set up and implemented social media and communication campaigns for organisations to align with their marketing strategies. His powerful skills are photography and videography, graphics design, content creation and copywriting.

Busingye Manjeri

Busingye Manjeri runs her own business and also does part time accounting work. Her skills are ledger reconciliation, data analysis, social media management, communication, interpersonal relations, and managerial skills.

IMPACT

In order to address the challenge of the skill gap among industry professionals, we have;

Corporate Capacity Building

Digicon Academy offers training and up-skilling of industry professionals in the marketing and communication departments within several organizations in the form of Corporate Digital Media training / workshops.

100+
Professionals in the Marketing and Communication departments trained from 2015 to date

Entrepreneur Accelerator Programmes

In collaboration with several accelerator programs and associations, we work towards upskilling entrepreneurs with Digital marketing and Advertising skills to market their businesses / products online to tap into the online opportunities.
Some of our partners in this initiative include Shona Organization, International Trade Centre- Uganda, Human Resource Association of Uganda, as well as Makerere Incubation and Innovation Centre.

90
Entrepreneurs / start-ups trained under this initiative.

Learning Centers

Digicon Academy has also partnered with several Universities and institutions serving as our learning centers whose goal is to train and upskill youth in Digital Marketing and Advertising.
These include the Victoria University Uganda, Kampala City Council Authority (an employment service bureau And Management Training and Advisory Centre).

250+
Young men and women trained as part of this initiative.

20,000+
Youth in Uganda and Rwanda trained in partnership with Google under the Google Digital Skills for Africa project, in an aim to address the challenge of high unemployment rates in Uganda and Rwanda.