Communications and Digitilisation Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says the time has come to equip young boys and girls with digital skills even as the world experiences technological advancement.
According to her equipping these young ones with such skills is the only way to making them useful for the world of work in some few years to come.
“If we give our young people the right skills to enable them succeed in the digital world, they can and will provide the human resources for the global world of work within the next ten to thirty years.”
At a Graphic Business and Stanbic Bank Breakfast meeting on Tuesday May 15, Mad. Owusu-Ekuful therefore charged the private sectors to do their parts in ensuring their employees are also equipped as well.
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“Just as government employees are being trained to be equipped with digital skills, the private sector is encouraged to sponsor not only it employees but also its suppliers and agents, who may be in the informal sector to enhance business processes and delivery in the various value chains.”
On intervention by the government to ensure the ICT skills of the young ones are built, Madam Ursula Owusu said government is sponsoring coding clubs under the universal access fund of GIFEG to develop the talents of young boys and girls to prepare their pathways in innovating technological solutions.
This she said is in addition to ICT being core subject in the school’s curriculum from basic to senior high school level.
The Breakfast meeting was on the theme, “Digitisation: The key to unlocking the Ghanaian dream”
Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
