Savana Signatures concluded its ICT training in Ghana dubbed First ICT Clinic for Girls directed at motivating girls to have a positive attitude towards ICT and in turn enhance e-education in the region.
The clinic, which aims to motivate the girls to have a positive attitude toward ICT as well as to minimize school dropout, had 60 girls from different basic and junior secondary schools in the Tamale Metropolis areas trained on basic ICT skills.
Reports from the company indicate that the project is part of its move in ICT education. Already, schools from Tamale Metropolis and Savelugu/Nanton districts have benefited from computers, ICT training to teachers as a pilot project that will expand to other regions.
Savana Signatures executive director John Stephen Agbenyo said he was happy with the training and his company will work hard to ensure girls are in the same level with boys in an effort of improving ICT usage in schools.
He noted that girls have been neglected while the boys projected as superior in the ICT usage and applications which must be addressed for the country to forge ahead in achieving its ICT policy.
Through the training, the government would be able to implement ICT use in its departments.
Tamale Metro’s deputy director of education Hajia Samata Bukari Gifty advised pupils to take to ICT and work hard since it involves almost all aspect of their education.
Through it, they would succeed in other subjects, she said
She further noted that ICT had made teaching and learning simpler and students are expected to develop interests in the subjects by studying seriously, discipline, dedicated and to make maximum use of the available opportunities.
The clinic was co-sponsored by Google and Ibis to reduce the gap of inequality between boys and girls in the ICT sector as well as to increase the use of technology in schools
Agbenyo concluded by saying, the girl’s clinic in ICT would be an annual event to roll out to more schools in the country.
Savana Signature (also SavSign), a non-governmental organisation based in Ghana aims to empower youth and women through education by use of and Communication Technologies.
