The Web Development training sessions are in keeping with the Foundation’s mandates of promoting computer literacy, and also fostering positive use of computers and the Internet by our young people.

The particular idea of the training sessions was born out of the Cable & Wireless Childnet Academy, a wholly C&W-sponsored international web development competition based in the U.K.  In the 2003/2004 competition, a Jamaican entrant was among the 12 winners selected from 250 entrants worldwide (40 countries). 

Four other Jamaican entrants in Childnet were also selected by the international judges for special mention and The C&WJ Foundation decided that in addition to providing them with prizes, it would foster their talent, by providing them with further web development training.

In addition to these four, The CWJF therefore also invited a member of its first Cyber Club, which was launched at the Mona Rehabilitation Centre, two members of the Clarendon College team who won the Gleaner Go-Local “Show your community to the World” Competition, and several talented children of employees of C&WJ who wished to learn more about this area of technology.  Children from rural areas who did not have relatives in Kingston with whom they could stay are being accommodated by the Foundation.

According to Kamina Johnson, Legal & Regulatory Advisor at Cable & Wireless Jamaica, and member of the CWJF management committee: “The CWJF is committed to helping Jamaica’s young people develop the skills that will enable them to pursue the new careers which the development of the Internet has facilitated.  Web Development & Web Design are two such careers.”