ICT to Be Incorporated Into Nigeria's Primary School Level Nigerian
President Goodluck Jonathan announced that Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) will be incorporated into the National Education Curricular at
primary school level. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced that
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will be incorporated into the
National Education Curricular at primary school level (image: file) Jonathan inaugurated the presidential committee on
broadband, and said that children need to pe exposed to ICT. “We must therefore
start exposing our children to ICTs to encourage in them familiarity with new
technologies and the desire to
develop software programmes and applications.”
He added that it is necessary to include ICT in
the curricular if Nigeria wants to stay ahead in technology – which has seen a
tremendous upsurge over the last couple of years. “It is important to start
thinking of how to build a digital economy particularly in this era of the
knowledge economy. The critical factor here is that we are in the middle of a
digital revolution that has seen ICT transform the global economy.”
According to Abuja-based Leadership, “he pointed
out that broadband has the potential to facilitate the creation of new
industries and introduce significant efficiencies into existing ones, adding
that education delivery, health care provision, energy management, public
safety, government/citizen interaction and the overall organisation and
dissemination of knowledge will also benefit meaningfully from it.”
With the announcement that ICT will be included in
the curricular, Jonathan also added that Nigeria’s National ICT policy will aim
to increase broadband penetration by five-fold by 2017.