The Daily Observer (Banjul)
Aji Fatou Faal
23 November 2009
Kotu Senior Secondary SchoolÂ's Information and Communication Technology (ITC) club, on Thursday organised an inter-school quiz for ten seinor schools in the Greater Banjul Area and Western Region at Kotu Senior Secondary School ground.
Speaking at the occasion, Ebrima D. Darboe, coordinator of Kotu ICT club, said his club has been existing in the school for a long time. He noted that the main aim of the competition is to bring the ICT clubs together, to promote and encourage students towards information and communication technology (ICT) in all the schools in The Gambia. He said it is a challenge to all NGOs, private business entities and schools to come up with plans to save the future generation from being semi-illiterate.
He thanked the main sponsors of the event: Unique Solutions and Gambia Printing and Publishing Cooperation, for sponsoring the competition. Alhaji Abass Fullah, acting principal of Kotu Senior Secondary School, said that they had been flirting with the idea of a 100% computer literacy for all students and teachers as a means of empowering them for effective and efficient teaching and learning, through developing their communication research, collaboration and interaction potentials. He revealed that programmes like this do go a long way in helping the students to realise this dream. For his part, Sanna Sarr of Unique Solutions, advised students to take their work seriously.
He encouraged the students to take the opportunity to work harder in continuning their educational pursuit. Abdoulie Drammeh, president of NIC -Net, said the ICT club Network - NIC-Net - is formed by Freedom Camp International in her effort to bridge the digital divide and to make accessibility to ICT available to all students nationwide, so as to encourage the integration of ICT in the school system. He added that the forum is meant to unite all the IT clubs nationwide and also to serve as a point of contact with students, teachers, and experts in the field of ICT.
He then noted that these included dialogue, ensuring access to information required for advocacy, appropriate policy making and facilitating decision making. Â"TodayÂ's learners are tommorrowÂ's leaders, all these programmes are designed to equip teachers so as to produce great leaders of tomorrow,Â" he said. He thanked Kotu NIC-Net members, main sponsors, NIC-Net executives and Freedom Camp International for their participation. At the end of the competition St. PeterÂ's Senior Secondary School emerged victorious followed by Rev. J.C Faye and then the host school - Kotu Senior Secondary School took at third position. Certificates and prizes were awarded to the deserving students. Sulayman Baldeh, president of Kotu ICT Club, delivered the vote of thanks.
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