Olwale Olaleye
20 April 2008
Lagos — A non-government and non-profit making organisation, Lagos Grassroots Legacy Foundation (Lag-LEF) is offering free information technology training for 20,000 beneficiaries across the state with a view to improving on the IT knowledge and skills of people living in the state.
The training which took off last Monday is the first phase of the private initiative designed to assist government in the education of people, especially in the area of IT which is the in-thing across the globe.
According to the Executive Director and Director of Media and Communications, Mr. Ismail Yahya and Hon. Rasaq Ajala respectively, the idea was conceived out of their burning desire to give back to the society, what they have received from it, adding that the project would go a long way in the life of the state. They said the programme is being carried out in partnership with iCarnegie Incorporation powered by Carnegie Mellon University , Department of Computer science, Pittsburgh , USA . The training, they also added would treat such courses as general computer appreciation, information and communication technology fundamentals, office automation and document management to include file transfer protocol. Specifically, they said their goal is to compliments efforts of the Lagos state government in actualising service delivery through information technology. They maintained that the foundation is positioned and well equipped with a state of the art training centre ready for use by the people of the state.
They further hinted that the foundation is challenged by the need to prepare the people of Lagos through a totally free training programme for the challenge of necessity to understand and grasp the workings of new technology-based innovations of the state government.
"More challenging is the low level computer appreciation of the people due to high poverty rate, incapacitating people from becoming informed about the basics of computer. But this vacuum, this free training will hopefully fill", they stated.
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