employment in services industry and will reduce the costs of hiring for companies. It is however critical that this is not done in isolation, but involve businesses, business associations and leading innovation hubs, across the country. Goal 7.2: Digital skills and knowledge enhancing programmes are available to all segments of the digital economy actors Several segments of the Myanmar e-commerce ecosystem, or niches, are benefiting from training and education allowing them to adopt or embrace new online business models and grab opportunities. Efforts should be made to bring knowledge and skills to masses, through programmes addressing different groups, before they can be mainstreamed in the education and vocational systems. Programmes targeting the youths, women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs outside Yangon should be prioritized, with co-funding of PPP options. No. Indicative action Expected outputs Priority level Potential support by: Related strategies High MoE, MCF/MCPA, DEA DER 5.1 Digital Skills and Inclusion, 5.1.1 Organize the lecture of the digital lessons for the primary, middle and high school students to use the internet safely Goal 7.1: Myanmar’s E-commerce and Digital Economy Curriculum are aligned with industry’s needs 7.1.1 Support the upgrade of public tertiary education providers’ curricula to include marketable knowledge and skills. Apps development, content management related curricula popular among ICT-savvy youth are aligned with industry’s needs. Increased marketability of young ICT graduates MSDP Strategy 3.7 Encourage greater creativity and innovation which will contribute to the development of a modern economy DER 5.1 Digital Skills and Inclusion, 5.1.8. Arrange the awareness trainings to be skillful in digital technology for youths and to understand the basic digital knowledge for public. DER 5.2 Digital Skills and Inclusion, 5.2.3 Update the Digital and Technological learning ability 45