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AgriConnect Supports KNUST E-Learning Week 2024… Launches Agribusiness & Entrepreneurship Podcast and Two Masterclasses in Digital Literacy

The AgriConnect Team, Faculty of KNUST and the more than 100 students that attended the AgriConnect Session

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) invited AgriConnect to participate in its E-Learning Week 2024. On Tuesday 9th July, the AgriConnect Team led two learning sessions under the theme “AgriConnect… digitally empowering our youth to lead the modernization of agriculture in Ghana’. 

AgriConnect took the opportunity to launch its 4-part podcast focused on Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship. This podcast forms part of the AgriConnect supplemental course on Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship. The Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship podcast is designed around the 4 modules of the course as follows:

AgriConnect Girls in ICT Day 2024 Webinar held under the theme “EmpowHering Leadership in the Digitalization of the Agriculture Sector”

On April 25, over 200 young women participated in AgriConnect’s webinar titled “EmpowHering Leadership in the Digitalization of the Agriculture Sector” - a Girls in ICT Day 2024 event.  These young women participated online via Zoom, while some of AgriConnect’s participating institutions hosted events in their lecture rooms, computer labs to allow their students to join the webinar as a group. 

The main objectives of the webinar were to allow young women who are participating in AgriConnect to:

Testimonials

Yakubu Alhassan Mohamed, Wenchi Agric College

My brother in UDS informed me that he has enrolled in the Agriconnect program and has received his laptop and mifi for data. In fact we did not believe this program will be real so when he got his laptop and mifi, we were both very excited. He is able to do his research and assignments easily on the laptop and has been telling me about the course content he has been going through. I am looking forward to enrolling here in Wenchi so my brother will not pass me in the learning! We will both benefit equally from the project.

Frank Asamoah, KNUST

The laptop has given me the opportunity to be able to do a lot of things in addition to my school work. I do web development and search engine optimalization as a side hustle when I am done with school work and the computer helps me a lot.

Prof. Antwi, Head of Animal Science Dept. KNUST
Head of Animal Science Dept. KNUST

This morning as students lined up waiting to enter the examination rooms, it was a joy to see them engaged on their Agriconnect computers, studying before the exams. Previously, you will see them peering into their phones trying to revise. The Agriconnect project has improved the manner in which our students work.

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AgriConnect Innovation and Difference

AgriConnect promises: 

  • That the technology deployed and the capacity built through the supplemental course content related to value chain development, digital literacy and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector will drive the impact, scale and interest of youth, women, and differently-abled persons in the agriculture sector, and importantly bridge the digital divide. 

  • To address the urgent need to reduce the extent of labour under-utilisation among youth. 

  • To place focus on education and training to enable youth in agriculture to benefit from new and emerging opportunities in agriculture. The knowledge products that are being designed and disseminated through the devices will be innovative, culturally relevant, and fully aligned with the needs of the labour market and importantly capture the interest and imagination of youth in Ghana. 

  • That the activities and outputs of the Programme will in the near future support the modernization of the agriculture sector by boosting productivity and supporting the development of agribusiness, thereby creating the linkages between farms and plots and other economic activities such as manufacturing and agro-processing. 

  • To be innovative in its approach as the Programme is designed to bring scale and impact by allowing youth, women and differently-abled persons to align their educational qualifications in agribusiness, digital skills and value chain development with dignified and meaningful jobs that will allow them to maximise the potential of their entrepreneurial spirits towards improved and sustainable livelihoods. 

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