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Solution Overview

Solution Name

ICT DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

One-line solution summary.

ICT Development Centre would stand in the gap of training young school children and school leavers in Lueku community of Ogoni, Rivers State.

Elevator pitch

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What is your solution?

ICT Development Centre is a program that is intending to impact the lives of young school children and school leavers in Lueku community of Ogoni, Rivers State. By bequeathing on them necessary 21st century ICT skills.

ICT Development Centre shall enroll and train young school children and school leavers to be fully endowed with computer knowledge and other information communication and technology (ICT) skills, with the use of computer systems and relevant ICT gadgets.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

ICT Development will solve the problem of computer illiteracy among school children and young school leavers in lueku community. This is because the community is remote and does not have any such facilities both in their local schools and within the environment, thereby denying school children access to computer knowledge. This said problem affects all young school children and young school leavers who reside in Lueku community. The consequence resulting from the problem is massive failure in computer-based tests ( CBT) during National Examination, such as Jamb, Waec, etc.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

the solution served young school children and school leavers in Lueku community who could not have access to computer training by giving them equitable access to ICT skills like their counterpart who are leaving and schooling in the morderm Communities.

ICT Development centre shall put in place a computer study laboratory hub that shall be used to train young school children and school leaver to be computer literates, and as well, get them readily prepared for CBT examination and also to improve their social living condition.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

The first step was trying to understand the needs of the target population through volunteer visits to schools in rural communities. The aim was to ascertain their core needs and while the massive failure in the national examinations, the above step proved that there is no computer training center both in their rural school and the Community where necessary computer training skills could be acquired. The second step was adopted in 2019 were a mini computer training hub was established with just a computer system though this could not be sustained due to large turn- out by young school children and school leaver in the community who are in desperate needs of the skills, and inadequate fund to procure more equipments.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

ICT Development centre, had been tested in 2019 and attracted so much focus and massive turnout by over 40 school children who were beneficiaries in Lueku Community of Ogoni. Though, the program paused based on financial constraints.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Team Lead:

Fidelis Doosia Biiranee