The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has completed a two-week digital skills training for 30 female teachers in the Northern Region.
The training, geared towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (five), which seeks to address gender equality and empower women through digital skills development, was in collaboration with International Telecommunications Union, HP, Cisco and NORAD.
Participants were taken through lessons in digital awareness, use of computers and digital devices, introduction to cybersecurity, presenting data in Microsoft excel, introduction to artificial intelligence, scratch programming, python programming amongst others.
Participants received certificates, laptops each and some souvenirs to support their work as digital ambassadors in their communities as well as teaching and learning of ICT in basic schools in unserved and underserved communities in the region.
Ms. Francisca Adjei, Director of Corporate Affairs, GIFEC, speaking during the closing of the training at the Community Information Centre at Sagnarigu near Tamale, said it reflected the commitment of GIFEC to a strong digital transformation, inclusion and gender equality and nation building in technology.
She urged the beneficiaries to be digital ambassadors in their communities to help bridge the gender digital divide in communities.
Alhaji Yahaya Zakaria Osman, Director of Operations, GIFEC expressed confidence that the training would be a tool for the beneficiaries to engage their colleagues, students and community members to ensure an ICT-literate society to advance the government’s digital economy and inclusion agenda.
Samira Sabe Musah, English Language and ICT Teacher form Sang Girls Model Junior High School in the Mion District lauded the training and said she had gained valuable knowledge to better teach her students and community.
She said she did not have an ICT background but started teaching ICT when her school’s ICT teacher went on transfer, adding “The training has been an eye-opener; I was exposed to more detailed and complex versions of ICT.”
Mavis Osei, a teacher from the Sagnarigu Municipality, also lauded the training and said she was now confident to teach ICT as her capacity in the area had improved.
She said she would also engage traders on cybersecurity to ensure that they remained safe as they transacted online businesses.
Source: GNA
