It would be based upon the principles of voluntary social action on the part of the key community institutions that decide to take part. Each institution would be responsible for the storage and exchange of information. The result of the community computing demonstration would be an assessment of how Internet and computer tools contribute to socio - economic development. Producing the 5 outputs described above is expected to lead to the achievement of the overall objective of having institutions in Ghana make use of the wealth of pre-tested educational tools, curricula from schools and community colleges, etc. in North America and worldwide. Word processing utilization might be considered as beginning computer literacy.
Computer literacy is a means to an end.
A project, Ghana SchoolNET, has been initiated with the Ghana Education Service. We are building a computing center at Kokomlemle, where repairs and courses will be given. We are networking 50 School together by the end of March 1996 as a pilot installation to E-mail system only. We are still buying the neccessary networking equipments to connect to NCS in Ghana. I am a Public Health Physician from Ghana and I am just about to complete my Phd in London.