Addis Ababa — Neuronet, a local private IT company, has successfully accomplished the first ever held nationwide basic computer training programme given for over 3,000 high school teachers and government employees across the nation, company's Project Office Manager Getachew Wolde told The Daily Monitor.

Asserting the company's accomplishment, ICT program Manager of UNDP (which funds the project) Sirak G.Yohannes said that the standardized manual Neuronet has designed for the trainees, the way it conducted the training and the role it played to coordinate the training is appreciated.

UNDP had awarded the project for Neuronet, after screening technical and financial proposal of about twenty two IT companies, according to Sirak. Neuronet had agreed to undertake the project for 2.2 million birr.

About 80 percent of the trainees were teachers serving high schools across the nation while the rest come from woredas structured by the federal government through out the country.

Sirak said that the training program will extend up to 2006, where the trainees who took the basic training will also be given advanced courses.

"As the main objective of the program is to enable students and the community acquire the required knowledge and take advantage of the information technology, the program will also extend to elementary schools," Sirak said.

The 35 day, eight hour long training, carried out by Neuronet was finalized last Sunday.