Inmates OF 21 prisons centres in the country can now enjoy the luxury of learning Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as part of their reformative process.
This follows the establishment of computer centres at the 21 prisons outlets to enable inmates, especially those who willingly want to study computer and its related courses, to do so.
The setting up of ICT centres in the prisons was made possible following the intervention of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), which is a leader in the learning and promotion of ICT.
CEO of GIFEC, Mr. Kofi Attor, made this known during the closing ceremony of a training workshop for 27 ICT managers, selected from nine districts in six cocoa growing areas of the country, at Nkwanta Kesse in the Affigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region.
The programme was purposed to equip the participants with the requisite skills to manage ICT centers that would be constructed and equipped by GIFEC in their communities to help train, aside the prisons, school children so as to make them computer literate.
Mr. Attor said plans were in the pipeline by his outfit to set up computer centers in the remaining prisons facilities in the country so that inmates in those prisons could also benefit from the laudable programme.
He disclosed that GIFEC had also furnished most offices of prisons officers with computers, trained some of the prisons officers in ICT and set up a computer laboratory at the Prisons Headquarters Training School.
Mr. Attor said the training workshop held at the Catholic Information Technology Institute at Nkwanta Kesse, was part of a national programme for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa growing areas (NPECLC.)
Mr. Roland A Modey, Acting Chief Director of the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, in a speech read on his behalf, said NPECLC was under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations which is championing the fight against the worst forms of child labour in the cocoa producing sector of Ghana.
He entreated the participants to take proper care of the centers that they would be managing in their communities so that the children could benefit from it, thanking GIFEC for partnering the ministry to establish ICT centers in some communities.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr.
Quelle/Source: spyghana, 28.02.2014
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