Chinese Ambassador inaugurates ICT centre for Tempane SHS
The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sun Baohong, has inaugurated an ultra-modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre for the Tempane Senior High School in the Garu-Tempane District in the Upper East Region.
The centre, which was constructed and equipped by the Chinese Embassy, has 30 computers and accessories, furniture, a projector and air conditioners.
Madam Sun explained that the China-Ghana Friendship ICT Laboratory project was executed under the 'China-Africa People-to-People Friendly Action' of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
She said since 2014, the Chinese Embassy to Ghana had aided in the construction of ICT labs for the Philip Akpo Memorial School in the Volta Region, Duong Junior High
School in the Upper West Region, Awutu Senya D/A Junior High School in the Central Region and the Tempane SHS.
Summit
"Last month at the Johannesburg summit of FOCAC which was held in South Africa, members adopted a series of new ideas, concepts, policy and initiatives to upgrade China-Africa relations to a new level of comprehensive partnership under five pillars and 10 cooperation plans."
Madam Sun said a total of US$60 billion of funding support was announced by China to African countries over the next three years and that FOCAC had mapped out a blue-print for the future development of the relations that would bring unprecedented development opportunities to Africa.
Advice
The Upper East Regional Minister, James Zuuga Tiiga, advised the students to use the facility to link up with the rest of the world to access and transmit information for development.
He entreated management of the school and the district assembly to put in measures to avoid the use of the facility to commit cybercrime.
Appeal
The District Chief Executive for Garu-Tempane, Mr Albert A. Alalzuuga, said even though the teaching and learning of ICT had become compulsory in junior high schools, the facility was the first to be inaugurated in the district.
He, therefore, appealed to the Chinese Embassy to consider providing a bus for the centre to transport students from other schools to access the facility.
