Mr. Stephen Agbenyo, Executive Director of Tamale based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) called Savannah Signatures which is into the promotion of Information Communication Technology in northern Ghana has urged government to quicken its pace on the implementation of the one child per laptop policy.
He said any further delay in implementing the policy would mar Ghana’s aim of attaining universal basic education and to improve the study of computer literacy particularly at the basic level of education.
Mr. Stephen Agbenyo was speaking at a day’s capacity building workshop held in Tamale. It aimed at building the capacity of educational authorities on the Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development Policy.
Other thematic areas that were discussed concentrated on how to share ideas and to network for possible future collaborations in deploying ICT into schools.
He announced that Savannah Signatures (SAVSIGN) has advanced plans to secure enough computers and laptops for supply to schools in the Northern Region that lack ICT tools.
Speaking on Ghana’s ICT for Accelerated Development Policy document, Ken Kubuga of Boldsteps Foundation reiterated the need for policy implementers in the educational sector to concentrate on using ICT to facilitate learning within the educational system.
This, he noted would make Ghana’s educational system responsive to the needs and requirements of the development of information and a knowledge-based economy and society.
Ken Kubuga tasked government to transform Ghana into an information and knowledge driven ICT literate nation by making available enough computers to primary, secondary, vocational and technical schools.
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