Directly following the developing computerized world, the Minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has forewarned the overall population to be careful about the expanding network safety dangers.
She said "the more we connect on advanced stages and the internet, the greater open door digital hoodlums need to penetrate our frameworks and truly hurt us. It is hence totally significant for the general population to learn the advanced framework, applications and frameworks in a no problem at all way, and safeguard our the internet and the residents."
The Communications Minister referenced digital harassment, porn and blackmail as certain violations that have become overflowing on the internet, particularly on programs that should act as instructive and amusement assets.
Mrs Owusu-Ekuful along these lines reaffirmed the government's obligation to tend to digital wellbeing issues for organizations and the populace, consequently the section of the Cyber Security Act in 2020 for the foundation of the Cyber Security Authority for severe authorization of the law. "We as a whole need to learn safe approaches to exploring the web so we can train others to remain safe."
She was talking at a get-together held in Sunyani to peak the Bono Regional form of the National Girls in ICT program. 1,000 young ladies chosen from the eleven areas in the district profited from the program which was under the subject "Access and Safety."
The Minister encouraged the young ladies to avoid practices, for example, putting away bare pictures on cell phones and other electronic gadgets as well as sharing them via online entertainment, focusing on that the training tends to demolish their future.
She likewise asked the little kids to foster interest in the investigation of science, innovation, designing and arithmetic (STEM) related courses. This she expressed, will furnish them with a wide scope of professional potential open doors.
The Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, MTN-Ghana, Georgina Asare Fiagbenu, in a meeting communicated fulfilment with the execution of the Girls in ICT drive, demonstrating that the point of MTN supporting the task to grow ICT access, particularly for youngsters was on course.
She recognized the Communications Minister, Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), and Regional Coordinating Councils (RCCs) and District Assemblies for their different commitments to the progress of the undertaking.
Mrs Fiagbenu noticed that notwithstanding the GH¢10 million sponsorship for the venture, MTN Ghana was likewise putting resources into infrastructural extension and advancement as well as arrangement of computerized admittance across schools to assist with accomplishing a definitive vision of spanning the computerized hole.
"The MTN Ghana Foundation has gone with a choice to give ICT labs to the vast majority of the schools it has been working as of late. We give traditional and advanced libraries to schools. Past this Girls ICT program, it is a responsibility that MTN has made to extend admittance to the advanced space," she said.
Grants
A 14-year-old understudy of Bandaman Islamic JHS, Hawa Imoro, was decreed awesome among the 1,000 young ladies. For her award, she got a check for GH¢3,000, a PC, a plaque and a declaration. Jessica Boahen of Drobo Demonstration JHS was the principal sprinter up while Emmanuelle Agyeiwaa of African Faith Basic School-Nsoatre put third. The first and second other participants brought back home GH¢2,500 and GH¢2,000, individually notwithstanding workstations, declarations and plaques.
The best 100 young ladies got PCs and instructors of the top ten young ladies additionally got PCs. The main 20 young ladies will have digital labs fabricated and prepared for their schools. Where there are no labs, it will be worked from scratch while those with existing labs will have them repaired.
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