Ghanaian Child Has Right To Access ICTs

The Accra Metro Director of Education, Mr James Nii Okaija Dinsey, has suggested that the right and access to Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) should be considered as a fundamental Human Right for the Ghanaian child so that it would be integrated into the school syllabi to enhance teaching and learning process in the country.

 
Explaining further, Nii Okaija noted that the whole notion of Basic Education has now taken a new dimension that students today have to learn to access, use and generate information for their own survival in this competitive world - noting that gone are the days when blackboard was hailed as revolutionary device to have impact on the educational process. 

 
Nii Okaija made these pronouncements at the commissioning and fund-raising ceremony for a computer laboratory for the Kanehie - Awudome 1&3 JSS Cluster of Schools in the Okaikoi Sub – Metro in Accra yesterday.

 
He commended the Government of Ghana for launching an ICT for Accelerated Development Policy among others, and consequently placing greater emphasis on ICT education in the 2007 Education Reform.

 
Nii Okaija added that this initiative of establishing an ICT laboratory at Kaneshie – Awudome 1 and 3 JSS would promote learning and teaching and support government's desire to deploy ICTs in the education sector to transform the culture and practice of traditional memory-based learning to a system that stimulates thinking and creativity, necessary to meet the challenges of the 21^st century.

 

Member of Parliament of Okaikoi North, Hon. Elizabeth Sackey, attributed the  indiscipline of the Ghanaian youth today to lack of education; noting that was the reason why Government has put in place national funds with the aim of reforming the education system so that the Ghanaian school child will be computer literate to compete with colleagues from the international communities.

 

The construction of the Computer Laboratory was initiated by the OIC of Okaikoi sub – Metro and sponsored by the Member of Parliament of Okaikoi South Constituency Hon. Nana Akomea, through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund). The cost was estimated to be over 20,000 Ghana Cedi.

 

Source: ISD (Daniel Agyiri)