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The Deputy Administrator of Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, Mrs. Eva Andoh-Poku has urged young girls to utilise their peculiar skills obtained at the training of digital skills acquisition, as a tool for adding up to the economy’s buoyancy.

According to Deputy Administrator, imbibing in girls the needed digital skills would serve as a viable alternative for bridging the gap between gender disparities among girls in ICT.

She made these assertions while giving remarks at the Ashaiman Digital Transformation Centre, Accra and highlighting on the need for investing in the training of girl child’s literacy in ICT.

Mrs. Andoh Poku advised the girls who exhibited their digital prowess through some coding session that, the future is a digitally dominant space and it was prudent for these girls to constantly practice whatever they have been taught as part of the training.

GIFEC, together with its partners including, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and Cisco is introducing the Digital Transformation Centres (DTC), and some High Profiled dignitaries partook in the inspection dubbed “Inspection of Coding for Girls Project”.

The project, which forms part of a broader goal of building an inclusive digital society where lack of digital skills should not be a barrier to participation in the digital economy, have trained several girls in ICT.

Project implementing partners, who visited and inspected the training, expressed happiness to GIFEC for being a reliable partner to widening the digital training space in Ghana.