{"id":1269165,"date":"2022-12-22T22:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/build-capacities-of-children-in-ict-parents-urged\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:53:56","slug":"build-capacities-of-children-in-ict-parents-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/build-capacities-of-children-in-ict-parents-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Build capacities of children in ICT, parents urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Regina Benneh\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abesewa (Ash), Dec. 22, GNA -\u202fAlhaji\u202fYahaya Zakaria Usman, the Director\u202fof\u202fOperations of the Ghana\u202fIndustrial\u202fFund for\u202fElectronic Communication (GIFEC) has appealed to\u202fparents to encourage their children to\u202fbuild their capacities in ICT to\u202ffit into the digital society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He made the call\u202fat a\u202fceremony to climax a 10-day\u202fICT capacity\u202fbuilding\u202fand skills training programme under the Ministry of Communication\u202ffor\u202fmanagers and teachers of\u202fGIFEC community\u202fICT\u202fCentre at\u202fAbesewa in the Ahafo-Ano South-East District of Ashanti Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Transformation Centres (DTCs) project is in partnership with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Cisco and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Usman\u202fsaid the training of trainers programme aimed at identifying and training of Master Trainers and Instructors certified by Cisco who would support training delivery at the community level and aimed at increasing a digitally literate citizenry to boost their ICT capabilities to enable them to participate more meaningfully in the knowledge society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the participants were trained in Cisco certificate courses\u202fsuch as entrepreneurship, introduction to python, digital marketing, python programming, introduction to cyber security and were awarded with applicable certificates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Usman added GIFEC was ready to\u202finstall devices at available centres so that\u202fthe youth, particularly women would be\u202ftrained\u202fto become ambassadors\u202fat the rural level\u202fto be able to impact others on ICT\u202fknowledge and periodically monitor their progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concern about the gender inequality among the trainees and urged all to develop interest in the ICT programme, adding that illiterates, market women, school children and the entire population\u202fcould be trained to become beneficiaries of the programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later in an interview, a participant, Mr. Derick Fio said the programme was very useful and had updated their knowledge in ICT and expressed the desire to train other people in their communities to contribute in \u201cfighting\u201d cybercrime in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"b88f3fda8e3bbbc1f3d0165a-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; 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