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Mr John Majisi, National Democratic Congress, Member of Parliament (MP) for Krachi Nchumuru, has donated 25 computers and 1,000 exercise books to the Krachi Nchumuru District Directorate of Education in the Volta Region.

The computers were secured from the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, at the request of Mr Majisi to facilitate the teaching and learning of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the district.

Read more: GH: MP donates computers to Krachi Nchumuru District

The Soul Food Ministries International (SFMI), has trained 876 youth in Information Communication Technology (ICT), under its “Free for all ICT training initiative”.

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.

Read more: GH: About 876 youth benefits from ICT training

The first ever Ghana e-Commerce Expo, which will exhibit the information and communication technology tools which can be used to enhance business transactions, has opened in Accra.

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.”

Read more: First ever Ghana e-Commerce Expo opens

The World Bank has so far disbursed $56.2million out of the $84.7million funding for the Government of Ghana to implement the e-Ghana project.

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".

Read more: GH: $56.2 Million Disbursed So Far for E-Ghana Project

With the massive investment by government in broadband infrastructure, it is expected that Internet usage will expand, especially with the increased capacity for the deployment of 4th Generation Applications, according to Dr Omane-Boamah, Ghana’s Minister for Communication.

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.

Read more: Ghana looks to e-commerce growth

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