General Overseer of SFMI,Pastor Eddie Letsa, said the training was to provide free ICT education for determined young men and women in various employable skills in information technology.
Speaking at the 10th graduation ceremony in Accra on Friday, he said some of the programmes undertaken by the students included computer hardware, networking, windows 2003 server, windows 2008 server, Cisco certified network Administration and Linux SLED.
A senior official of Africa Region Strategic Communications at World Bank Ghana Office, Kennedy Fosu disclosed.
The objective of the project, he said; "is to assist the recipient (Ghana) to generate growth and employment by leveraging ICT and public-private partnerships to develop the IT Enabled Services industry, and contribute to improved efficiency and transparency of selected government functions through e-government applications".
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Dr Omane-Boamah said in anticipation of this and in partnership with the internet community, Government was supporting the development of critical internet infrastructure by arranging for the supply of three additional switches for Internet Exchange Points and a Root Name Server to improve internet traffic, reduce its costs, promote local content development and, above all, reinforce its security to make it secure and safe for users.
Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, whose ministry is supervising and implementing the e-Ghana project, opened the e-Commerce Expo.
He said, “This e-commerce Expo is a welcome development in the promotion of ICT for our national development [because] it brings out the valued responses to the numerous initiatives that Government is putting in place to transform our economy and country from an agrarian raw-material-dominated production-base into a forward-looking, information and knowledge-based society that holds the key to our eventual prosperity.”
He said ICT had become the driving force for nation building across the globe and that Ghana could not afford to excuse itself from that fundamental development, hence the need to promote ICT education at all levels of the country’s development.