Supporting ICTs for Development
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Cameroon
- Staff Contact
- Mariam.Pangah@undp.org
- Project Title
- Supporting ICTs for Development
- Project focus
- Communication mechanisms for vulnerable groups
- Projct status
- Completed
- Entry Point
- 2,5
- Project summary
- The purpose of this project was to reinforce local capacity to fight poverty and to promote access to new technologies and information, especially by young people in both rural and urban areas and by vulnerable groups. Project activities centred around the establishment of an Internet Academy currently running eight teaching institutes throughout Cameroon. The Academy aims to enhance the national level of ICT expertise and employment prospects within the public sector.