IICD supported project: Global Teenager Project - Ghana

The Global Teenager Project (GTP) Ghana links students from Ghanaian schools through a virtual network with 10,000 students in 32 to countries. In Learning circles they can share knowledge with each other. Alongside enabling classroom discussions, GTP Ghana gives secondary schools a kick-start in the use of computers and internet. The project enlivens the educational process as teachers incorporate new ideas and methods into their classes. One of the exciting activities linked to GTP-Ghana is the bi-annual Global Teenager Website competition, as a way of teach students how to develop a website. GTP Ghana is used by 350 teachers and students in 14 schools in 3 regions of Ghana namely the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern regions. IICD has supported the project together with Rescue Mission since 2003.

• The website http://www.globalteenager.org.gh/ is operational
• More than 1,800 trained student & teachers are trained in basic and advanced ICT skills since the start of the project
• More than 1,300 students are trained in web development.  Four students won international awards at web development contests
• Thirty schools and communities have participated in the project since its inception 7 years ago. About a third of the participants are female

The project will contribute to the development of Ghana by increasing the number of school-leavers. And provide them  with analytical, problem-solving, decision-making and information and communication technology skills coupled with a wider knowledge and awareness of global and cultural issues.

Read more about IICD’s Ghana Country Programme.

Interview with Mrs Emefa Ansah, GTP Coordinator

• To create the Global Teenager Project Ghana website
• To train Teachers in basic ICT skills
• To conduct Global Teenager Project ‘Learning Circle concept’ workshop for teachers
• To organise an event to showcase GTP Ghana and to award deserving Heads of School, Teachers, students and others
• To train teachers and students in web design skills
• To participate in GTP international Learning Circle
• To conduct web contest for the best adjudged schools in Global Teenager Project Learning Cycle (GTP LC)

Global Teenager Ghana’s low-tech, inexpensive, easy-to-use ICT package helps to bridge both the cultural and the digital divide between secondary schools in the developed and the developing world. The project also helps to catalyse exciting ICT initiatives in countries like Ghana. Potential partners are encouraged to come on board with a view to providing additional support to the schools currently taking part in the project. Not only will this help to consolidate the project, it will also strengthen its chances of becoming mainstreamed into Ghana’s educational sector.

Read more about IICD’s approach towards Education.

Interview with Mr Ebenezer Malcolm

Interview with Mr Emmanuel Ahugah, teacher at West African Senior High

Interview with Mr Gerard Bugasi, teacher at Wale Wale Senior High

Other Interviews with students at West Africa Senior High:

Interview with Seke Sandra

Interview with Jonas Adjei Kyeremaleng