The Gambaga Girls Senior High School in the North East Region on Tuesday, November 16 hosted the climax of the Girls in ICT programme rolled out by government to bridge the digital gender gap in the country.
The event, on the theme: ‘Girls in ICT, connected girls creating brighter futures’ witnessed some 100 girls from 6 districts in the North East region receiving laptops for excelling during the training programme.
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The Girls in ICT is an initiative of the international telecommunication union (ITU) aimed at introducing young girls to ICT skills. It was adopted by all member states of the ITU of which Ghana is part.
Adopted in 2012, the initiative has become a flagship programme of the Ministry of Communication and digitalization.
The Central, Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Western, Western North, and Oti regions have all benefitted from the training program.
In a report filed by Akosua Akyeabea Sackey of ATL FM, she indicated that “In each of these regions, a 1,000 young girls are drawn and given the requisite skills and training in ICT and at the training, examinations are conducted and the first 100 girls are usually presented with Laptops and other ICT equipment”.
With poverty, electricity, and data being a major concern of the girls, Akosua Sackey said the policy planning and budgetary monitoring and evaluation of the communications ministry have started an evaluation process adding that “they are going back to all regions where the training have being held to find out where these girls are, what has happened to the facilities given them and how they have grown in ICT as well.”
The Minister for Communication and digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has also been striking the cords that parents should not dwell on these challenges and sell the laptops and ICT equipment given them.
The girls in ICT platform affords the females the opportunity to play their role as partners in the development of Ghana’s growth and also to enable them to catch up with the digitalization in the global world.
Source: Akosua Akyebea Sackey/ATLFMNEWS
