The Ghana Digital Communications Funding Fund (GIFEC), via the federal government’s flagship One Million Programmers Programme, has handed over 400 laptop computer computer systems and their equipment to seven chosen coaching facilities in chosen municipalities and districts within the Japanese Area.
The coaching facilities are New Juaben South, Decrease Manya Krobo, Yiro Krobo, Afram Plains North, Afram Plains South, Higher West Akyem, and Higher Manya Krobo.
As a part of the federal government’s efforts to equip younger individuals with coding and digital literacy expertise, every coaching middle has been supplied with 50 laptop computer computer systems.
The gifted laptops have been the primary part of bodily distribution to facilitate the implementation of the federal government’s One Million Programmers programme.
educating and studying
It additionally aimed to strengthen data and communication know-how (ICT) educating and studying in these areas within the area.
Talking at a brief ceremony to formally hand over the laptops in Koforidua final Monday (Could 11), GIFEC’s Japanese Regional Supervisor, Ali Akyena Abubakar, stated the gesture was a part of GIFEC’s imaginative and prescient to bridge the digital divide throughout the area.
He stated this initiative is a part of efforts to bridge the digital divide by extending ICT infrastructure and providers to underserved communities within the area.
Mr. Abubakar stated analysis in ICT is completely important because the world turns into more and more digital and the demand for expert professionals within the discipline continues to develop.
digital economic system
Abubakar stated this system will present a strong, structured pathway into the digital economic system, together with internships and job placements with different accomplice know-how firms.
job creation
He additionally advised the gathering that the initiative will create extra alternatives for younger individuals to work as freelance net builders, cellular utility testers and software program assist assistants with out having to go to city areas in the hunt for greener pastures.
Among the laptops donated to the middle
Mr. Abubakar thanked President John Dramani Mahama for taking steps to launch the initiative in 2025, saying the initiative is an bold one geared toward equipping a million younger Ghanaians with coding and digital literacy expertise.
He suggested beneficiaries in addition to metropolis and district coordinators to make use of laptops responsibly to serve native residents.
accomplice
Japanese Regional Minister Rita Akosua Adjei Awati stated this system, being applied via the Ministry of Communications, Digital Expertise and Innovation, NIITA and international know-how firms, goals to supply a million jobs to youths.
She stated such applications would additionally assist native companies and councils profit from digital options developed by domestically educated programmers.
Mrs. Aweiti subsequently cautioned managers and coordinators in opposition to hoarding and misuse of apparatus.
Ilo Krobo Municipal Chief Govt (MCE), Mr. Francis Ado Akmati, who obtained the laptop computer on behalf of his colleague, counseled the federal government for fulfilling its promise to equip the youth with employable digital expertise to make them helpful residents of the nation.
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