Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor, Jonathan Postel Award Honoree 2007, GIMPA Technology Week

9, February 2010.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 I apologize that I am not able to be at this event because I have to attend a UN Secretary General Advisory Group meeting on Internet Governance Forum (IGF) however Mr. William Tevie the first Internet Protocol (IP) engineer in Ghana has humbly agreed to deliver my message to you. I note that Mr. Tevie is a messenger of my “call for a sector reform” message and I am intellectually responsible for the material in this document.

 I thank the organizers for a very well planned program that brings meaningful attention to Information Technology (IT) education development in Ghana. The program has broad enough scope to give opportunity for frank and healthy discussion on the challenges facing IT education and IT professionals in Ghana. Given the well attended audience and the prominence of senior government officials in the program we must better address the more difficult and knotty issues not the peripheral issues, if we are to seek adequate policy Will.