Akwatia (E/R), Oct. 09, GNA – A programme to give free training in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for all form three students of Junior High Schools in the Kwaebibirem District has been launched in Akwatia.

It is being organized by the G2 Network, an Akwatia-based ICT Centre under the auspices of the Kwaebibirem District Assembly and the District Directorate of the Ghana Education Service.

Mr Mohammed Ahmed Baba Jamal, a Deputy Minister of Information, who initiated the project, said about 750 JHS three students would be trained in the first phase of the programme and that 20 Schools in the Akwatia Circuit had been selected for the program on a pilot basis.

Mr Baba Jamal said ICT had become a driving force behind national development and any person without computer literacy was seriously handicapped.

He said Ghana could not afford to lag behind the technological advancement hence the government’s determination to ensure the success of its programme to make every Ghanaian child computer literate with the “one laptop per child project”.

He asked the beneficiaries to be serious in their training and promised to donate a laptop to the best students.

The District Director of Education, Mrs Gladys Amoako Appiagyei, said that the world had become a global village and the only way of staying connected to the rest of the world was through ICT.

She said it was not surprising to see that parts of the world which have ardently adopted the use of ICT were far advanced and progressing in all sectors of their political