The first batch of civil servants to be trained in information and technology under the Chipen Rigphel project, which plans to “ICTise Bhutan”, began yesterday.
Twenty-one civil servants in P1 and P2 levels started their five-day training at the training centre at the Royal Institute of Management that was inaugurated yesterday.
RIM’s program head Kinga Jurmey said the training would build IT skills among civil servants to understand the concept of e-governance and analyse data.
Civil servants in Thimphu will be trained in batches for six months, after which the training would be done at the district level.
The minister for information and communications, Nandalal Rai, who launched the training program, said, in an ICT era, computer skills have become a necessity to cope with the expectations and aspirations of the people.
“This skill building training program of information and technology will help our civil servants, who are the backbone of a government,” Lyonpo said. “The ICT revolution is assured to have a great impact, especially in the lives of the people.”
The Chiphen Rigphel project, which was launched by the prime ministers of Bhutan and India last year, plans to take ICT to about 25,000 Bhutanese in five years. These include 5,000 teachers, 7,000 civil servants, 200 leaders, 800 professionals, 1,200 vulnerable youth, 2,400 college youth and 8,400 youth.
Trainings, said project director Tandi Wangchuk, for each target groups are customized, with ICT officers learning the use of specialised software, while teachers would use ICT for teaching.
He said they are now developing curriculum for the monk body. “The project will train 240 members of the dratshang and also provide computers to the dratshang and nunneries,” he said.
Since its launch in April 30 last year, the project has held 10 batches of leadership training for190 leaders. It has also ICTised three vocational training centres, two electrical engineering institutes in Khuruthang, Punakha and Chumey, Bumthang, and a civil engineering institute in Ranjung, Trashigang.
In February this year, 145 schools have also started training some 50,000 students in ICT.
The project will also take ICT to 100,000 students in 168 schools, and educate trainees in vocational training institutes, to produce 10,000 IT professionals and 1,600 enterprises.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Dawa Dakpa
Quelle/Source: Kuensel, 23.06.2011
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