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Ms. Dorothy Gordon, Director�General of Advanced Information Technology Institute Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), has paid a courtesy call on the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Professor John Nelson Buah. The meeting was to discuss collaboration with UCC in Information Technology and the possibility of AITI-KACE to partner the Department of Computer Science and Information and Communication Technology to build the capacity of lecturers. It also centered on AITI-KACE offering short courses in specialized areas in ICT for students of the Department. Welcoming her the Pro-Vice-Chancellor emphasized the need for UCC to tap the rich experience of AITI-KACE which can boast of the state-of-the-art facilities and that such a partnership would expose both faculty and students to the new trends in ICT. Ms. Gordon commended UCC for producing high calibre Computer Science and IT students, �I must say that UCC Computer Science products I have worked with have proved their worth�. She said as part of their mandate, AITI-KACE is expected to provide ICT training and capacity building to public institutions and organisations in West Africa.