Ghana: 400,000 Laptops for Tertiary Institutions

Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection on Thursday said Government had accelerated the pace for equipping tertiary educational institutions with laptops, as part of the E-education project. She said government aimed at distributing over 400,000 laptops to both students and lecturers of tertiary institutions by the end of 2016, to inculcate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the country's educational system. Nana Oye Lithur said under the Better Ghana Agenda, ICT serve as a critical tool to aid both students and lecturers with the needed skills to build a modern economy. She said other components of the E-education projects include training teachers in ICT, as well as establishing ICT laboratories for clusters of schools. .

Nana Oye Lithur said this at the "Girls in ICT Day" forum in Accra, which was on the theme; "Mainstreaming Girls in ICT - The Critical Missing Link in Development". The Minister said ICT represented an important contribution to the mainstreaming of gender considerations in Ghana and that such an initiative was a great step. She said the initiative was an indication of Ghana's preparedness to empower women and girls in all sectors of the society, especially those traditionally classified as the preserve of men continued