Ghana’s Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) will focus on extending improved ICT access to rural areas, says Kofi Attor, the fund’s CEO.

Attor was speaking at a recent Commonwealth African Rural Connectivity Initiative (COMARCI) In-Country capacity building workshop in Ho in the Volta Region.

He said that by the end of this year, people in the rural areas “won’t be afraid of the computer”. Among other initiatives, GIFEC has erected 52 masts in areas that are inaccessible to telecommunications companies to enable them to provide services to the people.

In addition, 20 community information centres in the country will be equipped with computers to promote the learning of computer, 38 Colleges of Education will also be provided with ICT facilities to train students to acquire the necessary skills in the technology, and by the end of this year, all technical, vocational and youth leadership institutes will be equipped with ICT. ICTs will also be rolled out to 15 Post Offices around the country.

Next year, all Nurses Training Colleges and Secondary-Technical institutes will also be hooked to ICT next year.

Source: GINKS