Ghana has to demystify Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Digital Technology as well as let its women likewise girls know that their jobs are not only in the Arts, Minister of Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has disclosed.
She made these remarks while touring a Girls-in-ICT project in some senior high Sschools in the Eastern Region on Friday.
The Minister said"We have to demystify and introduce more girls to ICT/Digital Technology"
"We have to let women know that their jobs isn't only in the Arts, but even with the Arts, they need some form of digital skills to be able to succeed"
"The way the world is evolving, we cannot develop without giving our young girls the chance to acquire digital skills"
"We seem to behave as if all things technical, mechanical, digital, engineering, science, mathematics, are a male thing so women cannot excel in it".
She stressed that such thoughts have contributed to the huge gap between men and women in ICT in Ghana.
"Thankfully, it is changing so about 10 or 11 years ago, the International Telecom Union decided that if we want to make a difference, and expose more girls to the wonders of ICT, we have to be deliberate, focused and introduced more girls to it.
Thinknewsonline.com has gathered that about fifteen (15) Junior High School students were selected in batches from 15 basic schools in the Akuapem South District in the Eastern Region to partake in the Girls-in-ICT program.
The JHS students wowed the sector Minister after they took terms to walk her through some codes, scribes, games among others they had developed.
The Minister who could not hide her joy also told Journalists that plans are underway to ensure that JHS and SHS have ICT centres where the students can access and acquire knowledge.
She also disclosed that measures are also being put in place to ensure that every JHS and SHS students has his or her own laptop.
The students expressed joy and thanked the sector Minister for such an initiative.
They assured that they will make good use of what they had learned and also educate their colleagues.
The Girls-in-ICT program saw the Minister of Communications and Digitalization together with her entourage toured the Aburi Girls SHS, Presbyterian Secondary School, Mampong, Regional Library, Koforidua and Ghana Senior High School, Koforidua, popularly known as GHANASS.
Story by: Joshua Kwabena Smith
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