Activities and Initiatives
The Centre works with other institutions located in six continents, Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America, Europe and the United States. A public sector institution run on private sector lines with a strong emphasis on social development, AITI-KACE aims to represent the best in modern service delivery models.
AITI-KACE also offer specialised training courses to decision-makers and important social groups such as parliamentarians. Their outreach efforts are intended to stimulate interest as well as demystify ICT with special stakeholder groups including students in educational institutions throughout Ghana as well as important groups such as market women, taxi drivers, etc. The Centre also offers space to dedicated geeks such as the Accra Linux User Group. A special project the i2CAP (I Too Can Program) builds programming skills among students in Senior Secondary Schools.
Corporate training programmes are geared to improving productivity and profits towards overall competitiveness the three major areas of focus are Security including cyber-forensics; business simulation modeling and a set of specially targeted training for the sub-region's nascent Chief Information Officer (CIO) cadre including e-leadership, e-procurement etc.
Course participants at AITI-KACE can choose from a broad menu of course offerings in networking, web development and software training with an emphasis to developing practical hands-on skills. Special vendor partnerships with NOVELL, CISCO and ORACLE underpin offerings in those areas. Many core course offerings are based on curriculum developed by our partner in India, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. By popular demand course offerings in multi-media are being expanded to cover podcasting, blogging etc.
Both corporate as well as core programmes receive considerable interest from nationals within ECOWAS. A programme of outreach to Liberian refugees is in its second year. Specially designed courses for governments within the sub-region are to roll out within the next six months.
In addition to core capacity-building programmes, AITI-KACE offers consulting services designed to assist individuals, institutions and businesses to keep pace with the rapid developments in information and communication technologies. A software development team works to respond to demands for specialized software. The multi-media group works with top web developers to raise the quality and quantity of African content on the web. The research programme is building a West African network in supercomputing designed to help build bridges between specialist researchers within the sub-region. The primary focus of this work is climate modeling.
ICT for Development projects involve working with communities to test innovative ICT solutions in different rural and urban settings. This work is based on the premise that ICT is a tool for empowerment and for reducing all nature of divides between society's 'haves' and 'have nots'. A new dimension to the Centre's ICT4D work is the support to Ministry of Communications programme of launching Community Information Centres in every district in Ghana.
Additional principal focus areas for the 2005–2006 biennium included expansion of activities linked to Open Source solutions, Content Development, Geographical Information Systems, Creative Commons and Multimedia and Gaming.
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