Engaging Civil Society: Open Door Strategy
Schools and libraries will be developed as local resources centers,
opening their doors to the community after normal hours for the use of the
new technology. They should promote ICT and skills as an enabling tool:
empowering individuals and the institutions of civil society to better
achieve their current ambitions and broaden their horizons. The opendoor institutions should be distinctly branded, with recognizable logos and
signage, perhaps as ‘Grenada ICT Strategy Smart Partner’. The open door
itself might be adopted as a symbol for the new strategy.
This effort will give particular emphasis on:
a.
Remedial literacy teaching
b.
Specific Skills development
c.
Use of School and Community based facilities
d.
Involvement of NGO's
This bottom-up approach should lead to attempts to develop, value and
make more visible the cultural and environmental knowledge resident in
Grenada itself, and market this as appropriate;
The strategy should make special efforts to address the needs of the
relatively disadvantaged and socially excluded members of society. This
is another strategy element that not only embodies social justice but can
help ensure wider recognition and social legitimacy for the initiative as a
whole.
Delivering Curricular Change
There are enormous opportunities for sharing experiences at a regional
level at all stages of this strategy, but particularly in the development of
educational provision.
Properly structured dialogues involving regional
participants may be one of the most cost-effective routes to opening
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A STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN FOR GRENADA
Anurag Sinha