As the world gradually transitions into a digitized global village, many developing countries like Ghana are employing new IT skills to shape their environment. 

IT skills such as coding and web development have become the technological vogue of the day. 

NarrowLite International, an IT company, has been taking over 300 youth of Kumasi through fundamental concepts in IT including coding, website and app development. 

The programme dubbed: Coding 4 Ghana, is to promote coding and software development among the youth.

Some participants of the training program shared their experiences and how impactful the training has been.

Abigail Tuffour indicated the program has helped her grasp some fundamental concepts in IT. 

“This program has really made a great impact on my life. As a student, it has introduced me to a lot of things about IT. Example Website Development, PHP and Java script. 

“I’ve really obtained skills and knowledge in these. In my field as a Chemist, I can harness the website development to advertise drugs made by a pharmaceutical company,” she said. 

Another participant, Maxwell Asamoah Amponsah said the coding training would help him generate a database for farmers. 

“I’m hoping to use IT language in many aspects of my life. 

“As an agricultural science student, I believe I can harness coding to create more efficient agricultural database to help farmers,” he said. 

These skills when employed by the youth will aid them in developing technological concepts to positively impact the economy. 

Overseer of IT Centre at KNUST library, Raphael Amofah Baah indicated that the training would help reduce the steaming unemployment situation in the country, especially for the youth. 

“This training will help the youth not become necessarily a burden on government as they get equipped with these IT skills. 

“And, I’ll be very glad if government supports students organizing and taking up trainings as these. 

“It will help recruit a lot of people to be trained as IT experts to consequently make life convenient,” he said.