Our Past Project

Since 2008, AIR has successfully undertaken a number of projects as indicated below:

November 2009: Global Partners Junior is an award-winning student exchange program that connects youth in New York City with students around the world via the web. It is sponsored by New York City Global Partners, the non-profit organization that connects the Mayor’s Office for the City of New York to cities around the world. This program fosters global understanding and communication through web-based exchanges and media projects. Global Partners Junior was the recipient of the 2006 Innovation Award for Youth and Education from Sister Cities International. AIR was authorized by New York City Global Partners to recruit a school from Ghana for the Global Partners Junior program since they have no schools or cities in Africa connected to this program. We were able to connect a British International School situated in East Legon to this program.

September 2009: AIR received a request from the Chief of Likpe Todoma through a Peace Corps volunteer to help them set up a Computer/Library center in their community. So we paid a working visit to Likpe Todoma in the Hohoe District. We held formal meeting with the chief and elders of this community, who showed great interest in the project.

August 2009: We converted the AIR office into an ICT training center, which enabled us to offer basic ICT training for 10 youth and teachers in Madina. The training course covered areas such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) as well as general web concepts such as navigation and searching.

June 2009: As part of our initiative to make ICT work for the poor, we started a project aimed at designing a community-owned ICT center. This center is intended to empower the poor people, especially in rural areas, with reliable access to ICT resources and facilities. AIR’s technical team reviewed the existing Community Information Centers (CIC) built by the government in the Dangme West District, Asikuma/Odoben/Brakwa and the Ajumako / Essiam Districts to evaluate their impact as well as identify the challenges facing them. The objective of this research was to obtain relevant data to plan our pilot ICT projects across the country.

October 2008: AIR received scholarship from Canadian Education and Training Awards (CETAA) for its Executive Director to undertake a two-month Certificate course in NGO Management at GIMPA. The Executive Director successfully completed this course.

September 2008: AIR, with support from CompTIA Foundation, conducted a training program for 10 students under the Creating Future Program. The training course covered areas such as A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, and Project Management for IT Professionals.

April 2008: AIR offered basic ICT training for 22 needy youth in Madina under its Catch IT Young Program. The training course covered areas such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) as well as general web concepts such as navigation and searching.