Accra, Nov. 19, GNA
– Over 30 students from the Legacy Girls College have paid an educational visit
to Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) to familiarize themselves
with its operations.
This is in
recognition of GCNet as the ICT company engaged in the provision of electronic
solutions at the heart of government’s digitisation journey.
The students, who
were led by their teaching staff, had the opportunity to learn about the smart
integrated electronic solutions, which foster trade development, boost business
competitiveness and improve ease of doing business as well as increase revenue
mobilisation for national development for the benefit of the citizenry.
The students were
taken on a guided tour of the facilities of GCNet including its Tier III Data
Centre, Network Operating Centre, its new state of the art Cyber Security
Laboratory and allied infrastructure.
The students were
briefed on the critical role played by GCNet in the deployment and integration
of systems in the new terminal 3 project, which has transformed the maritime
industry in the West African sub-region.
Receiving the
students and faculty of Legacy Girls College, Human Resources Manager of GCNet,
Mrs Akosua Asamoah expressed the hope that with ICT increasingly being used
across the continent to empower women, it will engender increased participation
of girls, especially underprivileged females into Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to overcome the phenomenon of gender
stereotypes.
She recounted an
encouraging development in Rwanda where a group of adolescent girls go to
schools to inspire more girls to choose ICT as a profession.
Mrs Asamoah said
this would go a long way to motivate girls to make the most of the
opportunities that ICT skills and knowledge provide.
During a courtesy
call on the General Manager of GCNet, Mr. Alwin Hoegerle, he encouraged the
girls to take their studies in ICT seriously since the world was now revolving
around digital innovations.
The students also
expressed their gratitude for the opportunity given them and noted they felt
fulfilled with the visit to gain practical insight and looked forward to more
of such tours in the future.
In Ghana, the
Ministry of Communications has been spearheading a campaign to encourage more
girls to pursue life-long professions in the field of ICT with interventions
such as the National Girls in ICT Day, similar to the International Girls in
ICT Day, observed on the fourth Thursday in April every year with firm support
from the ITU.
GCNet has been recognised
as the Trade Facilitation Organisation and the pioneer Single Window operator
for the past 17 years at the centre of Ghana’s digitization journey with the
provision of the platform and infrastructure that networks all parties to a
single window platform, ensuring efficiency, transparency and security in the
trade facilitation and revenue mobilization ecosystem.
GCNet has continued
to leverage on technology to reshape the trade facilitation and revenue
mobilization space with an end- to- end smart e-solution for clearance at the
ports and a unique position to provide a broad overview of business
registration, domestic taxation and international customs duties.
GNA
