Bono East: GIFEC  Rolls Out Digital Training Programme For Teachers

One Hundred basic school teachers in the Bono East Region are undergoing a 5-day training of trainers workshop to further train 1000 schoolgirls in ICT. The training which started on Monday is expected to end Friday at the Valley View University, VVU, in Techiman

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The workshop which is under the theme Access and Safety forms part of activities to ensure quality training for Girls in ICT (GIICT) program. GIICT is one of the government's flagship programs to address the gap between males and females in technology and digitization platforms initiated by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation (MOCD) and supported by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications(GIFEC).

At the opening of the workshop, the Bono East Regional Director of Education, Mrs. Effuah Amoah, charged the teachers to justify their selection among their colleagues for such training.

Gloria Adjasah from MOCD disclosed that 5 regions, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah, and Northern, and that, the first 100 best-performing girls will take away laptops each as first best schools get their ICT centers to build or refurbished.

The Dean of MDCEs in the Bono East who is the MCE for Nkoranza, Daniel Owuredu, on behalf of the regional minister, Mr. Kwasi Adu Gyan encouraged the participants to take their training seriously so that they can impact well to the girls in the ICT program.

He observed that the program will help erased the wrongful perception that ICT is for males.

The Bono East Regional Coordinating Director, Mr. George Mensah Padmore charges the participants to ensure the region gets the first position among the other competing regions.

The facilitators are from Indiana-Ghana KAICE.