(i) IT literacy in Schools The Education initiatives in Secondary school has been a success. Those initiatives need to be deepened, and extended to the Primary schools. The original program will be evaluated and refashioned to achieve the specific ends of supplying marketable skills and competence beyond mere literacy. The implementation of widespread Internet access and the increased training of primary and Secondary school Teachers in Internet competences will also characterize the next phase of IT education. (ii) Life‐long learning There are major segments of the adult population which had had little or no exposure to digital literacy. If they are to be enticed to utilize the new services, relevant initiatives to educate them must be undertaken. Community level training will be intensified and made easily available on a large scale. The use of the schools Lab facilities after normal school hours will be embraced to widen and speed up the process. Basic literacy skills, e-literacy skills, Internet skills, the use of standard software packages will characterize the community level training. Vocational Training and Certification (iii) The IT literacy and competency training would be stepped up in a focused manner with a view to increasing the chances of employability of the unemployed segment of the population as well as providing digital literacy for those already in employment, thereby ensuring that the workforce will be prepared for the inevitable transformation that it will face in the coming years. Consideration would be given to providing incentives packages to firms that organize IT literacy courses for their own staff. Workers initiatives to 28 A STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN FOR GRENADA Anurag Sinha

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