FOSTERING ENTERPRENEURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH DIGITAL EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL MARKET PARTICIPATION

By D. Ibrahim & A. U. Abdullateef

Abstract: The general purpose of this work is to examined “Digital Education: in fostering entrepreneurship to enlarge global market” Digital education is an umbrella term for any “education that is conducted with digital technologies. Recent definition of entrepreneurship is that form of complex economic activity, organised in the form of a business and directed to the production and commercialisation of products and services while, Digital entrepreneurship, therefore, differs from traditional entrepreneurship in that the business is entirely or predominantly online, i.e. based on the use of the Internet and ICT. The paper also, discusses Concept of Digital Education, Digital Entrepreneurship vs. Traditional Entrepreneurship, The entrepreneurial process, and Benefits of Fostering Entrepreneurship into Global markets. Suggestions were made among which are: There is need entrepreneur to be computer literacy to be cope in digital global markets; entrepreneur should be computer knowledgeable enough before they can switch from traditional entrepreneurship to digital entrepreneurship; also, there is need to be awareness of online cybercrime in order not to fall victim, creating of subsidized hardware loan schemes to students and staff to acquire affordable tablets or laptops, Curriculum integration of practical computer science and digital literacy should be made compulsory from basic education to tertiary levels.
Keywords: Digital Education, Entrepreneurship and Global Market