New UG teleconferencing suite to widen access to education

Minister of Public Telecommunications Catherine Hughes (right) cutting the ribbon at the commissioning of UG’s new Teleconferencing Platform with Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith (second, right), Dr Paloma Mohamed and Head of the e-Government Unit Floyd Levi.

University of Guyana (UG) students will now be able to access local and international courses without having to leave either the Turkeyen or Tain campuses due to the institution’s new teleconferencing platform.

The teleconferencing suite, which was a gift from Chinese company Huawei Technologies to the Government of Guyana in 2013, was set up and commissioned yesterday by the Ministry of Public Telecommunications and UG at the Centre for Information Technology.