More youths benefit from ICT training

Youths of Meten-Meer-Zorg and surrounding communities are the latest to benefit from Basic Information and Communications Technology Training, through a programme being conducted under the Office of the Prime Minister’s Industry and Innovation Unit and the Department of Public Affairs.

Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Public Affairs, Kwame McCoy delivered the feature address to students at the Nirvana Humanitarian Society on Friday afternoon, as the five-day training concluded.
He told the youths that they are being prepared for a great and exciting future.
“The skills that we have been teaching you, are making available to you are skills that are a part of the future of Guyana, and what exactly is the future of Guyana? Not only do we have plans, programmes and initiatives that will see us moving in particular directions and certain directions over the next year and the next year and the next year, but it is who will be moving with those plans, with the direction with the programmes, with the initiatives, it’s you,” McCoy is quoted by DPI as saying.
The programme is being conducted countrywide and hundreds of youths from various regions have already benefitted. McCoy said the programme is preparing the youths for the technological transformation of Guyana.
He noted that it was always the vision of the PPP/C Government to educate Guyanese in basic ICT, and the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme, introduced in the party’s previous term in office, was part of this plan.
The students were given basic training in web development, programming and coding and robotics, aimed at building the capacity of youths.