The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stressed the need to make access to digital devices a necessity, not a luxury, to make the country competitive in the fourth industrial revolution, hinged on digital technology.
“We have to take that approach by ensuring that we have availability of digital devices across our tertiary institutions,” he stated.
Speaking at the opening session of the Annual New Year School and Conference at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Dr Bawumia charged the university to be at the forefront of knowledge production in the development of groundbreaking and cutting-edge technologies tailored to respond to specific challenges and sectors to accelerate national development.
The Vice-President expressed the hope that recommendations from the three-day conference would put the country in pole position for accelerated development, enabled by technology and anchored on humanism towards a resilient economy for generations unborn.
Dr Bawumia, therefore, urged well-meaning individuals and institutions to contribute generously towards the one-student, one-laptop initiative, classroom modernisation and the construction of hotspot comfort zones at the university to provide ideal locations for the relaxation of students and the university community.