IICD supported project: ICT Capacity Development Centre For Enhancing The National Portal - Ghana

This project establishes an ICT Training Centre for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation (MINO). In the Training Centre the staff of the Ministry and its affiliated organisations can acquire basic and advanced ICT skills. The project especially aims to train 230 Information Officers for the newly formed Community Information Centres (CICs). They will be trained in the development and management of content at the CIC. IICD supports this project at MINO since January 2007.

The training centre is officially opened in the last week of October 2008.

Information management and dissemination can be seen as an integral part of a structured and sustainable approach to development. Efficient management and dissemination of information is seen as a prerequisite for social and economic development, especially in a rapidly changing and an increasingly demanding national and global environment.

The establishment of an ICT Capacity Development Centre can help the government in Ghana to enable the necessary social and economic development by building the capacity of their staff in information management and dissemination.

Read more about IICD’s Ghana Country Programme.

• To establish a  Capacity Development Centre for the sector
• To identify ICT skills and knowledge gaps within the sector
• To design ICT training programs for the sector
• To construct an ICT Training Centre within the MINO Ministry building
• To conduct different computer and content development courses and capacity development workshops 

The users are the people trained at the ICT Capacity Development Centre. MINO wants to train at least 810 staff members (including 230 Information Officers). With the knowledge they gain, they are able to develop and maintain content of Community Information Centres that will affect the people living in these communities.

Read more about IICD’s approach towards Governance.

IICD Interview: Mr Alphonse Koblavie, MINO

The project is owned and implemented by the Information Services Department (ISD) of the Ministry of Information and National Orientation. The ISD mandate is to create awareness of government policies, programmes and activities using a combination of visual, audio, digital, print and face-to-face interaction.