Trainner of the Bolgatanga Start-Up Summit Louise Marie Atoluko Ayariga
Speaking in an interview with our Correspondent Emmanuel Akayeti in Bolgatanga, the Training Officer, a Computer Engineer and a fellow of the African Union Digital Information Field Louis Marie Atoluko Ayariga stated that, the penetration of mobile application is on the ascendency and mobile phones abound with a lot of Job opportunities for mobile App developers, yet such skills are low in this part of our world, adding that there is the need to equip the youth with such skill for them to be self-employed, create jobs and to also be relevant in solving societal problems in terms of ICT.
Mr. Atoluko said they had earlier on in
September last year trained 20 young ladies on mobile application development
for 3 weeks and the just ended one was 6 weeks and participants were given
skills on mobile app development.
A cross section of participants at the Bolgatanga summit
He added that the ideas generated after the
pitching by the trainees, if well carried out, will in the end help solve the
problems of our society.
He stated that they will be taken through
business development training which some of them could make a business out of
mobile applications while others too will go into an
internship to get a feel of
work before they are they then move into society.
The NEPP TEK Group that pitched first at the Bolga Start -up Summit
Nancy Avam Afelik who studied accounting in
school took part in the training, her group came first in the pitching with the
prototype app M-Ward a mobile application that will help parents and teachers
monitor their wards out in school.
With this, Ms. Afelik said the app will enable
parents to monitor their ward as they are in school, what they are learning,
assignments and attendance. Their group code name NEPP TEK intends to do more
research into the area to ensure that the app becomes more viable in the
future.
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