As part of bridging the
digital divide between the served and underserved communities across the various
communities in the Wassa East District of the Western Region of Ghana. It
is proved beyond doubt that, Daboase CIC has been of a great help to the entire
District.
The
center has been of tremendous help to the youth and school children the most.
For years, the center has been helping in the areas of software and hardware
lessons. This year alone a total of one thousand and thirty-nine (1039) pupils
from primary one (1) to Junior High School have been trained in the history of
computers, uses of computers, its maintenance and basic typing.
In
May this year, The Ministry of Communication in collaboration with GIFEC and the
Wassa East District Assembly organized two weeks coding program for girls. Sixty
Girls from six selected school in the district compete with nine districts in
the western region. Out of the sixty girls, seven girls were selected to represent the district and they
were awarded with laptops, MTN data for one year, tablet for free and the other
students were also given a certificate for participating , that shows that the CIC is really projecting the
image of GIFEC and the district as well.
Currently
one hundred and forty (140) students are in Coding Club in various schools in
the district which are running after classes.
Since the establishment
of the facility, about 60 – 70 percent of youth in the district have acquired
computer knowledge through training at the Centre.
I
am happy to say that some of the youth are currently into photocopy business,
mobile money business, mobile phone repairs, software and hardware installation
and many others.
Deployment of computers to nine schools in
the district have received ten computers each, projectors and scanner machines,
out the ten, two of the schools (Amponsanso basic and Essamang Basic school) have
a fully installed internet services.
The
District is also blessed with NABCO personnel at the CIC and some various
schools in the district to help pupil and the community in computer training.
The
CIC is still open to the general public to enroll in basic computer training to
help equip and break the gap of computer literacy in our district.
Below
are the schools that are yet to receive their computers
Break down are the various schools and its statues.
S/N
|
Name of community
|
School
|
Statues
|
1
|
Daboase
|
Kakakrom Basic school
SIPL/SOCFINAF
|
Lab is 100% ready
Lab is 100% ready
|
2.
|
SEKYERE KROBO
|
Sekyere Krobo Basic School
|
Lab is 100% ready
|
3
|
Sekyere Nsuta
|
Sekyere Nsuta Basic School
|
Lab is 80 %
|
4
|
ATEIKU
|
Ateiku D/A Basic School
|
Lab is 100% ready
|
5
|
EDWENASE
|
Ewdenase Basic School
|
Lab is 95%
|
6
|
EKUTUASE
|
Ekutuase D/A Basic School
|
Lab is 80%
|
7
|
Domama
|
Domama D/A Basic School
|
Lab is 50%
|
8
|
NEW SUBIRI
|
New Subiri D/A School
|
Lab is 50%
|
9
|
OLD SUBIRI
|
Old Subiri D/A School
|
Lab is 50%
|
10
|
Nsadweso
|
Nsadweso D/A School
|
Lab is 80%
|
Hoping by
the close of next academic year2020 90% of schools in Wassa East District will
be furnish with computers to enhance their academic performance.
