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Read the science on this, it's not yet fully conclusive about what benefits come from these types of training.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/do-brain-games...
Besides teaching I could also recommend contributing back to open source projects and just getting active in your community.
I'll give the gtypist a go. If it's something I can consistently work at I'm pretty happy with doing and committing to this daily. Spent last two weeks learning to use emacs and emacs lisp.
http://www.sita.co.za/FOSS/FOSS1.html
A policy alone doesn't seem to help, as can be seen here: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
Legislation might be a better approach. I couldn't find the exact numbers now, but a country like RSA sends around 1 billion US out of the country for software licenses yearly.