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General Electric (GE), the world’s premier digital-industrial company, has launched an e-learning portal for its Lagos Garage advanced manufacturing training programme. The portal, launched at the 2018 Lagos Garage Week on Thursday, will extend the reach of the training programme to more people across the country.

The Lagos Garage Week is a year-end series of events held annually at the Lagos Garage, located in GE’s Lagos office in Victoria Island.

During the Lagos Garage Week, GE opens its innovation hub for interested entrepreneurs to register for carefully curated courses in advanced manufacturing and business development. The courses introduce participants to principles of 3-D printing and rapid prototyping as well as a range of business development skills in finance, personal branding, marketing and innovation.

“This platform will make the training on offer at our GE hub reach a much wider audience than ever before, thus increasing the number of beneficiaries and making it more impactful,” said Patricia Obozuwa, Director of Public Affairs for GE Africa. “Our goal has always been to reach the maximum number of Nigerian entrepreneurs in a short period, delivering valuable training that they would otherwise not have access to.”

She added that over 250 people have successfully graduated from the advanced manufacturing training program at the Lagos Garage.

Speaking at the portal launch, the Lagos State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Hakeem Fahm, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Kayode Ogunnubi, said, “Lagos state is at the forefront of ICT development in Nigeria and training programs like the GE Garage that equip youths with innovative skills is one of the ways we believe we can develop the economy of the state and by extension, the entire country.”

He also commended GE for being collaborative with the Lagos State Government over the years.

Launched in 2016, the Lagos Garage is a hub for advanced manufacturing-based innovation, strategy development, idea generation and collaboration. Till date, over 250 entrepreneurs have graduated from the program having been trained to use the latest advanced manufacturing technologies, including 3-D printers, laser cutters and computer numerical controlled (CNC) mills, as well as business development skills.