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To this end, Rlg Institute of Technology, a subsidiary of Rlg Communications, had been contracted by government to train the teachers in the nationwide project. The leading Ghanaian ICT firm will also provide the teachers with laptops for the first phase of the project.

“Information and Communication Technology capacity building programmes for the youth should be organised at the district levels…with emphasis on how to use ICT to create jobs, subscribe to jobs and search for jobs online,” a 12-point communiqué issued at the end of the conference said.

General Overseer of SFMI,Pastor Eddie Letsa, said the training was to provide free ICT education for determined young men and women in various employable skills in information technology.

Speaking at the 10th graduation ceremony in Accra on Friday, he said some of the programmes undertaken by the students included computer hardware, networking, windows 2003 server, windows 2008 server, Cisco certified network Administration and Linux SLED.

She said the training was in connection with the Vice President John Dramani Mahama's initiative to support persons with disabilities to have knowledge in ICT since that was what was driving the world at present.

Ms Frimpong was speaking at a durbar organized to interact with persons with disabilities to know their problems and find out how best they can be helped.

Professor Oheneba-Sakyi said this at the first congregation ceremony for distance education programme at the University of Ghana’s Institute of Continuing and Distance Education in Accra.

He said greater opportunities would be opened for post-graduate E-Learning programmes via online and other technology-mediated learning for the school’s educational entrepreneurs for lifelong learning.

He expressed concern that the six months training programme in computer and mobile phone repairs were being conducted by the company free of charge but the youth in the region had failed to access such opportunity to upgrade theis skills.

Inaugurating a GH¢60,000.00 four-unit classroom block built for the Usifia Islamic Junior High School (JHS) in Kumasi, the MP said such a move would enable the youths to contribute meaningfully to the nation’s development process.

“The main challenges facing our nation today can be linked to our inability to praticalise ICT and bond it with technical and vocational skills training and development,” Mr James Gunu stressed.

“Information and Communication Technology capacity building programmes for the youth should be organised at the district levels…with emphasis on how to use ICT to create jobs, subscribe to jobs and search for jobs online,” a 12-point communiqué issued at the end of the conference said.

He said under the senior high school computerized project, some of the graduates would be integrated into the mainstream as ICT instructors or trainers while others would be maintained to repair broken down computers.

Mr Ernest Attuquaye Armah, Deputy Minister of Communication announced this at the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day observed in Accra on Thursday. It is on the theme: "Women and Girls in ICT".

He said the deployment formed part of the Ghana Public Service Information Technology and Information Management scheme of Service to guide and regulate the recruitment of personnel.

A major step taken towards the fulfillment of this dream is the construction of an ICT centre at Dambai the district capital.

Speaking to Ghanadistricts.com, District Planning Officer, Yakubu Mohammed Hardi disclosed that the facility under construction is expected for completion soon.

The multi-million cedi laboratories will be equipped with modern tools and equipment to facilitate the teaching and learning of ICT, science and mathematics in basic schools across the country.

The programme follows the rehabilitation and completion of about 52 training centres spread across regional and district capitals of the country and furnished with state-of-the-art training equipment.

The programme, which is being implemented by rlg Communications, in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare, is aimed at equipping Persons Living with Disabilities with the employable ICT skills to compete in the ICT job market in the country.

It is to train 150 poor and vulnerable youth on work readiness and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) skills and then employ those youth in BPOs to digitise government records.

A statement issued in Accra on Friday said the grant was being made through the Rockefeller Foundation’s Poverty Reduction through Information and Digital Employment (PRIDE) Initiative.

She said nursing was currently one of the lucrative professions in the international community, but practitioners without basic knowledge in ICT would be unproductive.

Mrs Gordon gave the advice when addressing 100 female students at the opening session of a three-day ICT Training Programme in Sunyani on Friday.

This, he explained, is as a result of the increasing role science education and technology is playing in shaping the global economy as the country positions itself as an ICT-driven economy.

“Ghana is committed to having an ICT-driven economy, and for this to be fully achieved requires high skill training of students in such fields and computer engineering is well-placed in the University of Ghana to provide the leadership role.

Hon. Kyeremeh said as government officials, they have been employed by the people and therefore attach great importance to concerns raised by citizens especially “when they relate to constructive engagement to improve public services”.

The Minister for Education, Ambassador Lee Ocran, who announced this said increase in budgetary allocations will enable government to pursue vigorous ICT education and learning in schools across the country, and ensure the country becomes an ICT hub for the sub-region.

The fully furnished facility is the seventh to be commissioned, out of the ten to be constructed in all regions across the country to offer opportunities for people in the rural areas to acquire training in the usage of ICT tools.

The other three are being constructed in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions and the total cost of the ten learning centres is 100,000.00 million US dollars.