She specifically urged them to use ICT to ‘revolutionize’ agribusiness in Ghana.
Madam Clarke gave the advice during an interaction with students of the Computer Science Department of Ho Polytechnic in Ho.
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The exercise, which is scheduled to begin anytime within this third quarter of the year will capture those public sector employees who could not be registered during the main biometric registration exercise carried out by the Ministry last year.
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He said according to experts, there would be two million more ICT jobs available than ICT professionals all over the world in the next decades.
“For this reason, we need to empower our school girls and young women alongside the young men to take up such job opportunities that ICT was creating”.
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He said even though ICT has become a lucrative sector in terms of job creation, business growth and rewards, career in ICT had somehow become mainly dominated by males.
Mr Vanpercy made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by Mrs Florence Martey, NCA Deputy Engineer, at a "Girls in ICT" Marathon training programme on Wednesday in Accra.
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He said even though ICT has become a lucrative sector in terms of job creation, business growth and rewards, career in ICT had somehow become mainly dominated by males.
Mr Vanpercy made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by Mrs Florence Martey, NCA Deputy Engineer, at a “Girls in ICT” Marathon training programme on Wednesday in Accra.
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