UEM Land’s ICT Knowledge and Appreciation Programme seeks to create awareness on the importance of ICT usage and to develop IT skills amongst the upper primary and secondary school children. With the long term objective of helping to bridge the digital divide between the urban and rural communities, the programme focuses on IT literacy and the competent usage of computers.
Under the programme, activities organised include training workshops and ICT Carnival. The ICT Training was organised for UEM Land’s PINTAR School students and teachers. Students were trained to use IT software and to use the internet as a learning medium whilst the teachers’ training was aimed at improving their proficiency in ICT and empowering them to, in turn, train their students in ICT.
More than fifty PINTAR school teachers and 3,200 students from UEM Land’s PINTAR primary and secondary schools have benefitted from this programme.
The ICT Carnival for Nusajaya zone aims to expose the surrounding communities, especially the school communities, to the current trends in ICT and to showcase each school’s respective ICT projects. It was first organised in May 2009 at SMK Tg. Adang and SK Tg. Adang, Gelang Patah and had attracted over 1,000 visitors comprising students, teachers and members of the local community.
On 11th May 2011, the 2nd ICT Carnival was organised in collaboration with Johor Bahru District Education Department (PPDJB) and State Education Department (JPNJ). The carnival was also held in conjunction with ‘Semarak Mahkota Pendidikan’, one of the programmes planned by JPNJ to build closer rapport between the Palace and the students, by making His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris ibni Sultan Ibrahim Ismail as an icon to all the students in Johor and additionally to be the patron of the students’ programmes. The carnival, held at SMK Taman Nusa Jaya, saw the participation of more than 3,000 students and teachers from more than thirty schools around Johor Bahru.
