The Education Minister shared this view during a Monday, January 31 press conference organized to update the public on the progress of the government initiative, I-Literacy One-to-One Laptop Project.
Carty explained that it was necessary to educate children at all levels in ICT, in order to ensure the development of a successful economy.
“The young people we see in our classrooms today, from primary school to secondary school to the CFB College, are the people that we hope to be not just the employees of tomorrow, but we expect them to be the businessmen and women.
“We expect them to be our teachers, our leaders of academia in the future, and so it is quite appropriate if we are building as part of our economy the ICT sector that we reach out in a very special way to educate boys and girls at all levels in the education system,” he said.
According to Carty, the government is taking a realistic approach to making laptops available to students through the One-to-One Project. He indicated that at present the project seeks to put a computer system in the hands of each high school child, though consideration to extend a similar courtesy to children at the primary level will come in the future.
Carty avowed it was his hope that once exposed and trained in ICT, the creativity of the young people would become more pronounced, producing a firm ground for the development of the sector in the future.
As part of the I-Literacy Project, Government will make available to high school students and teachers Hewlett-Packard (HP) personal computers with Windows 7 operating systems, as well as the Microsoft Office 2010 Suite. Microsoft is partnering with the government to make the initiative possible by providing access to their products at a low cost.
Within the next week, 200 computers are scheduled to arrive in St. Kitts- Nevis, officially marking the fulfillment of the first phase of the I-Literacy Project. HP’s Caribbean Territory Manager, Ted Serrano, explained that the later-than-expected arrival was due to a delay in the assembly of the machines. He also informed that the remaining 1000 laptops will be shipped to the Federation at the end of February.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Teshell Samuel
Quelle/Source: The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer, 04.02.2011
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