‘Use Technology To Address Nation’s Challenges’
Thursday September 03, 2009
By GNA
The president of the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC), Dr Osei K. Darkwa, has urged policy makers to prioritise the use of technology to address the needs and challenges of the nation.
Any nation which failed to maximise the power of technology would be left behind in the global developmental agenda, he said at the closing of Tech Camp 2009 organised by the university for senior and junior high school students in Accra.
The six-week course aimed to expose the participants to a wide range of computing skills and information technology to give them hands-on experience with emerging technology and channel their energies to the solution of puzzling information technology challenges.
Dr Darkwa said GTUC had partnered Omatek Ghana Limited, a local computer manufacturing company, to set up a technology centre at the university to enable the students have practical knowledge into the assembling and manufacturing of computers.
He said the technology course would start in January, 2010 and urged parents to enrol their children in these specialised lessons.
Dr Darkwa also stated that GTUC intended to decentralise the Tech Camp programme to the other regions and will collaborate with the National Youth Council to use its training centres for the camping.
He said the next level of the Tech Camp meeting would focus on the application of the technologies acquired by the participants to the benefit of their communities.
Mr. George Adorshie, GTUC International Relations Officer, said the Tech Camp was carefully tailored to equip the students with the ‘tools’ to face the challenges of today’s knowledge based global system.
He encouraged the participants to continuously practice the skills that they had learnt and share their experiences with friends who could not take part in the camp.
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Jojo: I am sorry to say you are wrong about bringing in experienced expats to beef-up/manage the telecom sector. I have lived in Asia for 5 years, and witnessed countries like Singapore/Hong Kong/Malayasia etc., bringing in foreign experts to help elevate the level of their own knowledge. The question is, how long would these experts be retained, and what are their expected contributions to the areas their are contracted, in terms of capacity building. It is very unfortunate how Ghanaians easily wallow in emotions and attack such policies. The so-called slave mentality is prevalent in most countries Westerners influenced - from Asia to South America. We can do something about it through our kids. Yet the question is: What examples to we show them, since children mostly learn basic things from their parents and close families?
Please, was it necessary for the nation to have created Ghana Telecomm University and for us to ask Telecommunication engineers from Malaysia, Norway and recently Vodafone, England to come to our shores to run the nations Telecommunication Company. Unless we know, what education and training neans to a nations economic and social development,we will fail to confront the many challenges and difficulties facing our dear nation. We cannot put a slave in a new factory. We Can\\\'t get Ahead-Falling Behind. Al Jojo Dadson