DELTA State government says that plans are underway to ensure full scale Information Communication Technology (ICT) in all public secondary schools and tertiary institutions in the State ahead of the proposed plan by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB’s to ask students to write examinations through the computer by year 2013.
Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on ICT, Mr. Sunny Ofili told reporters in Asaba yesterday that to achieve success in that direction that the state government had already inculcated the plan in this year’s budget, saying that “we want to make sure that our children are not left in the cold when JAMB goes ahead to implement the policy. If we do not act fast and introduce computers in our various schools they will definitely be left in the cold”.
Ofili, who is also they Head, Directorate of Science and Technology the state will soon commence the construction of ICT Park in the state with a capacity of training about 2,500 youths to become entrepreneurs to design web skills and other programme languages.
“Our goal”, he went on , “is to move them into sites and become entrepreneurs equipped with intellectual ability by replicating the Indian example. The Indian government is also assisting us in the Park. ICT Park keys into three 3-point agenda of this administration, human capital development. We are going to train the required manpower that will transform the State to a knowledge-based economy”, he stated.
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan had while presenting the 2012 budget remarked that “a key anchor of our diversification strategy is the deliberate stimulation of industrialization of the State.
To this end, this administration has established three special economic zones viz, the Warri Industrial Business Park, the Koko Free Trade Zone and the ICT Park in Asaba”.
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