The Ghana Funding Fund for Digital Communications (GIFEC) has skilled about 1,000 folks on the varied Digital Transformation Centres on the use and advantages of Info Communication Expertise (ICT) gear.
Individuals who benefitted from this coaching included college students, lecturers, girls and women, youth, and members of the communities who’re marginalized, in addition to head porters, college dropouts, and faculty leavers.
This system acquired help from the Worldwide Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Norwegian Company for Growth Cooperation (NORAD), and Cisco. Trainees in attendance had been opened and uncovered to numerous alternatives within the ICT eco-space.
The CEO of GIFEC, Mr. Prince Ofosu Sefah, made point out of the varied features of the lives of people the place ICT is taking part in an enormous position and these included schooling, well being, commerce, agriculture, and leisure.
He additionally stated that ICT is a serious instrument for the financial and social development of each nation, particularly as confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated the expositive impression of ICT in improvement.
Mr. Sefah stated all these are consistent with the federal government’s digitization agenda. An agenda with the imaginative and prescient of growing a extra strong infrastructure to incorporate everybody within the socio-economic improvement means of the nation.
GIFEC’s Rural Connectivity Programme with the Ministry of Communication and Digitisation has supplied 2,016 websites that join over 3.4million residents in underserved and unserved communities, thereby growing telecom community protection to about 95%.
GIFEC has additionally delivered computer systems and equipment to over 1,000 fundamental, junior and second cycle colleges throughout Ghana to assist in educating and studying of ICT.
He urged members to make use of the talents they’ve gained from the coaching to enhance their companies, employability, and residing requirements for financial acquire.
Nonetheless, he lamented over the inadequacy of funds to help the coaching and subsequently appealed to philanthropists and different non-governmental organizations for help.
Mr. Emmanuel Atta Ofori, Kwahu South Municipal Chief Government (MCE), praised GIFEC for the coaching and urged members to make use of the digital slots obtained as a instrument for contributing to the economic system and bettering their livelihoods.
He appealed to GIFEC to extend the variety of beneficiaries over time in order that extra folks may benefit from the coaching.
