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Cameroon: Adcome Wins Global Challenge Award
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The Post (Buea)
28 October 2007
Posted to the web 29 October 2007
Walter Wilson Nana
Cameroonian centre for Information and Communication Technology, ICT and Non-Governmental Organisation, ADCOME, has won the 2007 Global Junior Challenge Award worth FCFA 15 million.
The award took place in Rome, Italy, from October 3-5, sponsored by Digital World Foundation. The Global Junior Challenge Award is designed to young people and to schools to identify and reward best case practices on the use of ICTs in Education and Training.
A Communication agent at ADCOME, Calsidine Toufo, said ADCOME would use the money on ITC projects to help the Cameroonian youth. According to her, the project is aimed at bridging the gap between Information Technology, IT, and education. "We've sent a proposal to Rome already. We need more vehicles to access the country, buy more and good quality computers to improve on our services," she added.
The Human Resources Assistant at ADCOME, Frederick Tinefeh, corroborated; "We will take a step forward from the school milieu to meet other youths in the society who need to be ICT-oriented."
The award comes with more challenges for ADCOME, going by him. "We intend to continue to narrow the IT gap in our country."Tinefeh explained how ADCOME got to be part of the award; "They looked at how ADCOME has been implementing its ICTs projects to schools across Cameroon.
We employed software development components that facilitate learning processes in schools in Cameroon. That made us different from the other contestants. We prepared the feedback of the award and sent it with our colleague Julius Nganji who went and represented us. The finalists were selected by a committee and then forwarded to the President of Italy, who subsequently and officially received them for recognition. So, ADCOME was on the spotlight as one of the leading platforms of ICTs selected."
ADCOME is amongst the leaders of ICTs in Cameroon. It provides young people with access to Internet and allows them to discover and develop their potentials for a positive impact on the socio-economic landscape of Cameroon via ICTs.
It is planted in eight provinces of Cameroon and has so far engaged more than sixty thousand students, young people and teachers nationwide. In December 2007, ADCOME would be a centre in Bamako, Mali.
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University of Buea Journalism and Mass Communication and Management students on internship at ADCOME, are currently criss-crossing the country to prospect for schools that could be linked to the information superhighway technology.
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