{"id":174024,"date":"2015-12-13T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=174024"},"modified":"2015-12-13T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T10:50:15","slug":"five-upper-east-schools-benefit-from-ict-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=174024","title":{"rendered":"Five Upper East schools benefit from ICT project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five Junior High Schools in the Upper East Region have been selected to benefit from a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project dubbed, \u201cHands on Computer Classes for 1,800 Ghanaian Children Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The beneficiary Schools which are drawn from the Talensi, Nabdam and the Kassena-Nankana West Districts in the region are Kongo Dabore Junior High School, Yakoti Junior High School, Paga B Junior High School, Gaare-Gbane Junior High School and Pwalugu Junior High School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bUGqbCgMipcDylSN19WbdyDZl0aotVJU&#8221;]The project started in the Volta Region in 2013 and is now being extended to three regions in the country, namely the Western, Ashanti and the Upper East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is being implemented by the Electronic For Library (EIFL), a Non-Governmental Organisation in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also providing a Solar Panel, 15 laptops, a Unit Amplifier Speaker and a Projector with software that covers the syllabi of subjects in Junior High Schools and past examination questions to teach the students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Regional Director of GES in charge of planning, Mr Raymond S.M.K Abatanie, said the essence of the project would enhance the performance of ICT at the BECE level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Regional Librarian, Mr John Ayeseya, stated that his directorate with the Library Van in collaboration with the GES would move to the selected schools to teach ICT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Junior High Schools in the Upper East Region have been selected to benefit from a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project dubbed, \u201cHands on Computer Classes for 1,800 Ghanaian Children Project.\u201d The beneficiary Schools which are drawn from the Talensi, Nabdam and the Kassena-Nankana West Districts in the region are Kongo Dabore Junior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":174074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-174024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}