Small and Medium Enterprise Development Institute (Smedi) has trained businesspersons in digital financial literacy skills to help grow and protect their businesses.
Speaking on Friday at Mponela Enterprise Development Centre in Dowa during the training in digital financial literacy for trainer of trainers, Smedi acting chief executive officer Chezani Otaniele said embracing digital finance will help minimise the risks that come in the absence of digital platforms.
“When you embrace digital platforms you make life easier and these days things are much easier when you want to transact online,” he said.
He urged businesspersons to utilise digital platforms to grow their business.
On her part, United Nations (UN) Digital finance specialist Jessica Lee Masaie said the training was designed to promote resilience after the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Given that you are part of the digital world today and still operating in a world of cash, you are able to move quickly and communicate with your clients and track transactions that you make,” she said.
A participant Madalitso Mwapasa from Lumbadzi said the training will help her how to move her financial transactions to digital platforms to avoid the risks associated with handling hard cash.
“We will utilise these digital skills to ensure that our businesses grow and also minimise the risks that come along when one is using manual transactions to do business,” she said.
Smedi is running digital financial literacy programme with funding from the UN Capital Development Fund.
