PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, 25th May 2005 @ Sunyani Secondary School, Brong Ahafo Region � Ghana.
Hon. Baffour Awuah, Deputy Minister of Brong Ahafo has advised students to make the Internet their companion and constantly visit it as a resource to transform their societies. According to him, government is tackling the issue of access as it relates to the development of infrastructure, upgrading of communication networks, local content and skill acquisition to enable the country to achieve benchmarks set out in the global action plan included in Geneva 2003. Hon. Awuah, gave the advice when he addressed students, teachers and heads of Institutions from Senior Secondary schools in the Sunyani Municipal Area during the Regional ICT Sensitization Outreach and Youth Trainers Camp tagged �Rural Youth National Information Campaigns (RYNICs)� in commemoration of African Union Day. The theme was �Youth Bridging the urban-rural digital divide� The Outreach that is part of Ghana�s youth as well as World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Youth Caucus� activities toward Tunis 2005 to be held in November aims at bringing together young people from every corner of the country to get developed, empowered and informed to deliberate on issues that could build a sustainable information society. The programme was organized by National Youth Information Society Campaign (NYISC) and Prime Resources in conjunction with Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), Science Education Unit (Ghana Education Service) and Ministry of Communications. About two hundred (200) students, teachers and heads of Institutions from seven Senior Secondary School in the Sunyani Municipal attended the programme. Mr Leopold L.L. Armah, Coordinator of the Outreach on his part said the best way young people on the continent can celebrate their heritage on Africa Union Day is to equip themselves on how to utilize ICTS for the benefit of their society because with ICT, the possibilities are limitless. He indicated that NYISC has a lot programs in ICT and youth development and expressed the hope that the government, private sector and the larger community would continue to support such initiatives and other programs that are aimed at helping the youth to acquire modern skills for accelerated development. Participants were trained on how to use the computer as well as the Internet. At the end of the Outreach, most of the students expressed their appreciation to the organizers for exposing them to the use of the computer for the first time and called for more of similar initiatives. Sources: NYISC Secretariat Wednesday, 25th May 2005 Accra - Ghana [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ycdo.takingitglobal.org/policy/projectview.html?ProjectID=1035&action=updoc#updoc ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
