Vodafone
Ghana has taken its recently launched National Coding Programme to the
Central Region as part of efforts to reach the entire country before end
of March 2019.
The telecommunications company recently announced that its new coding
programme is part of a unique strategy to ignite Ghana’s digital
revolution and will benefit 10,000 Ghanaians in five years. The
telecommunications company has already indicated a desire to equip the
Ghanaian youth to be
cometitive in the ever-changing global world of
technology through coding.
The five-day programme, which began last Monday August 27th at Adisadel College, is training 50 teenagers between the ages of 14–18 years.
Ebenezer Amankwah, Corporate Relations Manager at
Vodafone Ghana said: “The pace of growth in technology across the world
has made it imperative for countries like Ghana to become creators of
technology and not only consumers.
To make this happen, it has to start with the youth – and what better
way to empower them than through this initiative. It is more critical
for the beneficiaries of digitisation to, more than ever, understand the
language of the platform – and this can be achieved through coding. We
are excited to be leading the digital revolution agenda in Ghana”.
The programme is targetted at Ghanaian youth aged between 14 and 18
years with a passion for technological innovation and will typically
last for five days in each region.
The Ashanti Region is the next stop for the initiative, beginning on Monday, September 3rd 2018.
Already, the team has trained 50 youth in the Greater Accra Region at the Accra Digital Centre.
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