MTN opens ICT Centre at New Ningo

By Bernard Yaw Ashiadey

MTN Ghana with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has opened an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) centre of learning at New Ningo in the Greater Accra Region to help boost the level of ICT education in the community and its environs.

The centre, which is the first of ten centres to be commissioned in the ten regions, is under the auspices of the MTN Foundation, which seeks to provide health and educational facilities to deprived rural communities.

Lord Paul Boateng, Patron of the Foundation, commissioning the centre encouraged both students and teachers of the schools in the community to take full advantage of the facility because the world is now being driven by ICT.

“Since the world is changing due to technological advancement everyday, teachers and students must learn how to use these computers in order to help the younger generation to be well equipped for the future.

“The youth of the community must take advantage of the centre to equip them and be abreast with developments across the country and beyond,” he said.

He added that members of the community should cultivate a maintenance culture in order to keep the facility in good shape at all times so that the children of today will grow up and still meet the centre as it is today.

The Deputy Minister of Education, Mahama Ayariga, reiterated government’s commitment to education and the provision of ICT infrastructure to help improve the level of ICT education in the country.

“Government will continue to invest in the ICT education at all level because ICT represent the future development of the continent.

“Government appreciates effort by the private sector to help promote ICT education in the country and also appealed to other organisations to invest in ICT education because it is vital to the development of the country.