Over
five thousand artisans nationwide are to receive Information and
Communication Technology training from the Ghana Investment Fund for
Electronic Communications.
The
programme which is being run free of charge under a Digital
Inclusiveness Project would soon be launched in Cape Coast in the
Central Region.
Potential targets include carpenters, hairdressers and auto mechanics, in collaboration with the respective artisan groups.
With
the help of Community Information Centers spread across the various
districts, municipal and metropolitan areas, artisans will receive free
ICT training within two weeks.
Administrator
of GIFEC, Kofi Attor, told Nhyira News the project will equip artisans
with ICT knowledge to boost productivity as they learn new and improved
trends.
“Within
two weeks, they [artisans] will have to go home with some knowledge on
how to use the ICT. We don't want the Community Information Centers to
just stand in there as a middle class thing. We want it to be relevant
to the economic needs of everybody. There's always the best practice
somewhere. If you Google carpentry in China, I am sure you will get
something. The people would not be paying for the training. We will be
pay for the training; go in there and use the computer to assist your
work within two weeks”. Mr Attor revealed.
GIFEC
has been implementing several ICT-related projects which seek to reach
and leverage the capacity of overlooked groups and individuals as it
covers underserved areas. He projects include Community Information
Center, Rural Telephony and School Connectivity.
GIFEC is also seeking to equip about 64 libraries across the country with e-learning materials.
A
part of the package, 28 librarians recently underwent training at the
John Agyekum Kuffuor ICT Center Nkwantakese in the Afigya Kwabre
District of the Ashanti Region.
Mr.
Attor believes the Library Connectivity Project, in partnership with
the Ghana Library Board, will make libraries more relevant. More than
fifty libraries have been connected so far under the project.
“What
we are doing to add some value to the library is to put computers into
the libraries so that people who are doing research and people who are
going to study can complement e-arrangement (electronic arrangement)
with the physical library. It makes library research a little more
interesting”.
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