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UNDP supports development of local content in Ghana
Introduction
| Initiative Name: | UNDP Support |
| Author: | Emily Nyarko |
| Country: | Ghana [GH] |
| Theme: | Education |
| Capacity building | Content | |
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The Story
Background and context:
Information they say is power and can make or unmake a people or individuals depending on the uses to which they apply the information.
But for rural communities everywhere, it is difficult to access, let lone to apply the information for development. Now more than ever, people everywhere are realising the importance of information and its ability to empower them democratically and economically for development.
The United Nations as a lead world body is urging governments to build an informed society as part of efforts to develop and halve the world’s poor through the implementation of key development strategies including the application of ICTs to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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