Dr Osei K. Darkwa
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3rd September, 2009
‘Use Technology To Address Nation’s Challenges’
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.
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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