Ms Dorothy Gordon, the Director General of Ghana-India Kofi Annan International ICT Centre for Excellence, has expressed concern about the cost of hiring Information and Communication Technology graduates in Ghana.
She said the cost was too high and this discouraged businesses.
In spite of the high labour cost of hiring ICT graduates, Ms Gordon said, they sometimes exhibited bad behaviour and gave flimsy excuses for not meeting deadlines.
She added that they also showed bad attitudes towards the modern way of doing businesses as compared to their counterparts in Kenya and Rwanda who are aggressive in the business field.
Ms Gordon was contributing to an open forum on ICT entrepreneurship, business and the youth at the on-going 65th Annual New Year School at the University of Ghana Legon.
Besides the exorbitant cost of engaging graduates, she said, generally the cost of doing business in the country was also too expensive and served as a disincentive to the youth preparing to go into business.
Ms Gordon said: “The bank rate is high, interest rate is, labour cost is high, rent is high and utility bills are high.”
She said the youth ought to be given the maximum backing as well as the exposure to vigorous entrepreneurial and business training.
She urged local government authorities at the assemblies to give sponsorship to the youth to pursue ICT training at the Centre, adding: “the Centre is open to everyone, no entry qualification is required.”
The forum generated discussions as the 178 participants called for robust and systematic ways to implement ICT polices in all spheres of national life for sustainable development.
Some of them urged government to set up a bureau that would exclusively deal with concerns and needs of young entrepreneurs while others pressed on assemblies to allocate part of their Common Fund and Internally Generated Fund to promote ICT education in their localities.
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