The Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has encouraged school girls to take advantage of the several opportunities that exist in the Information Communication Technology space globe to enhance their scope of knowledge.

According to her, IT and digital skills have become a tool to improve confidence in learning and at workplaces, hence the need to equip students in ICT.

The minister said this when she toured some of the training centres for Girls-in-ICT training in the Eastern region.

" IT and digital skills are a tool that we use to enhance anything at all that we are doing so you girls utilize it just as much as the boys also can. So don't let anybody frighten you to think that it is only boys who are text-up. There are a lot of amazing women who are doing wonderful things in ICT and I am looking forward to meeting some of you ten years from now tell me that you are also a woman in ICT doing amazing things in the ICT world," she stated.

The Minister used the tour to assess the ongoing training for selected basic school girls in ICT and spur them on to take up challenging tasks in the digital space.

The Girls-in-ICT program adopted in 2017 aims at bridging the gender gap in ICT.

As part of the program, the Ministry of Communication in partnership with its implementation agencies has equipped more than one thousand girls with basic ICT skills including coding, website development, cyber security among others.

She took her tour to the Aburi Girl's Senior High School, the Presbyterian SHS at Akuapem-Mampong, Ghana SHS in Koforidua and the Eastern regional library where she revealed over 115,000 teachers had been trained in digital skills, established a knowledge bank as well as revealing plans to established computer laboratories for about 300 schools to be funded by the world bank.