[WSIS CS-Plenary] Young People in Northern Ghana Urged to Attach More Importance To ICT Studies

[Leopold L.L. Armah]

Attach More Importance To ICT Studies - Students Urged


Mr Chikpah Demuyakor, Northern Regional Director of
Education last Saturday advised students and their
tutors to attach more importance to the study and
teaching of Information Communication Technology (ICT)
to help transform their societies. He said ICT was an
area, which could enrich societies whether they had
natural resources or not and stressed its importance
in national development. 
 

Mr Demuyakor gave the advice when he addressed
students from Junior and Senior Secondary schools in
the Tamale Metropolitan Area at the National Youth
Information Society Campaign (NYISC) in Tamale last
Saturday. 

The campaign is aimed at bringing young people
together through ICT, as well as getting them
developed, empowered and informed to deliberate on
issues that could build a sustainable information
society in Ghana. 

The Northern Region programme is one of the regional
outreach programmes throughout the country to herald
the World Summit dubbed: "Phase 2 Africa Preparatory
Conference in Ghana" to be held in from 28th January
to 4th February this year. Some 500 school children
from 21 JSS and 19 SSS in the Tamale Metropolis
attended the programme. 

Mr Demuyakor said it was becoming increasingly
competitive in the technological world and very
difficult to gain employment in Africa without the
knowledge of ICT and urged students throughout the
country to pay more attention to its study. He also
called on the Ghanaian workers to always update their
knowledge in ICT so that redundancy does not catch up
with them in future. 

The Director appealed to the ICT experts to focus
their emphasis on educational institutions where the
youth could easily be located in order for the country
to make headway in ICT development. 

Mr Leopold Armah, National Campaign Coordinator of
(NYISC) regretted that the youth use their ample time
accessing pornography on the Internet instead of using
the facility as a study guide. He expressed gratitude
to students in the northern sector saying: "Northern
students can make it in ICT because last year's
national champion in ICT essay competition come from
Navrongo in the Upper East". 

He expressed the hope that students in the country
would all be ICT literates in the next five years and
advised them not to regard ICT as a boring field. 

Source: GNA 24/01/05 


	
	
		
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