The ICWFD is committed to bridging the digital divide in marginalized and disadvantaged sectors of society worldwide by providing training in vital job skills to reduce poverty and unemployment, enhance employability, empower youth to become productive citizens, enable entrepreneurship, stimulate broad-based economic development, and accelerate social transformation. The ICWFD provides access to over 500 state-of-the-art and certification-level information technology and professional development courses FOR FREE to the trainee end-users. The ICWFD’s “E-Skills360” e-learning platform equips the workforce with 21st century employability skills so that it is ready to compete in the global economy, attracting corporate investment into the local economy by cultivating a well-trained workforce base from which multi-national and local companies can hire employees.