Ghana’s Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation (MoCD) in partnership with the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (GI-KACE) and the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) will start training for the third batch of the Girls-In-ICT programme (23rd-28th October) under the third Phase with the aim of training 340 upper primary and Junior High School girls in Information Communication Technology (ICTs).
The programme also seeks to encourage young girls to take up career courses in ICT and develop an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
The training modules include; Introduction to Computer Programming, Cyber Security, Animation Development, Game Development, Coding, Scratch, and Website Design.
After the one-week training, the beneficiaries would be assessed through an inter-district competition where the outstanding girls would be selected.
The third batch of girls (340) were selected from eleven(11) districts, which include New Juaben North; New Juaben South; Akwapim North; Lower Manya Krobo; Upper Manya Krobo; Nsawam Adoagyiri; Suhum; Yilo Krobo; Akwapem South; Asougyaman and Okere.
This brings the total number of girls trained to a thousand (1000) in the Eastern Region, So far, the programme has trained 100 Teachers (2nd – 6th Oct. 2023), while 660 girls have benefited from 22 districts.
The First batch took place from 9th – 14th Oct. 2023 and trained a total number of 327 girls while the second batch started from (16th – 21st Oct. 2023) and trained 333.
The training is also supported by MTN Ghana, ATC Ghana, Ghana Education Service and the National Communications Authority.
