This past week students from a number of state-run secondary schools have been hosted by the local information technology firm Starr Computers as part of a commitment given by the management of the company to contribute to filling what the company’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Mohan describes as the “critical technology gap” the exists between Guyana and the developed world.
This week Mohan is taking time off from his substantive pursuits as head of one of the country’s technology marketing companies to play host to groups of schoolchildren drawn from a number of state schools to deliver a series of lectures based on the theme “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Up to yesterday, the Starr Computers’ Brickdam complex had hosted groups of students from various Secondary Schools including Charlestown Secondary, President’s College and St. Joseph’s High School to engage Mohan on his Fourth Industrial Revolution presentation and to familiarize themselves with the company’s hi-tech environment. Today’s encounter will see Mohan hosting staff of the Ministry of Education’s National Centre for Research and Development. (NCERD).