Mr Attoh was speaking during the GIFEC Week celebration on the topic: “ICT for Sustainable Development”. The week was to show case the achievements of the Fund to the general public.
He said GIFEC was promoting ICT in all sectors of Ghana’s economy, namely, “security services, the disability, e-Learning, common communication facilities, the Last Mile Initiative and the School Connectivity projects.”
“The others are the e-Health, ICT Capacity building, Community Information, School Connectivity, Rural Pay Phone, Easy Business, Post Office Connectivity, the e-Fishing, the Public Education Electromagnetic Field exposure and Health and the Library Connectivity Projects.”
Mr Attoh said GIFEC had mounted communication masks with solar panels in rural areas in all the 10 regions at a total cost of $2 million.
He said GIFEC in April this year launched a device called “Eco-Finder” an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) device which facilitates the efficient location of shoals of fish in coastal and inland waters to improve fishing activities.
Mr Attoh said the project, one of the flagship programmes outside the core information technology deployment, was being implemented in line with Government policy to change the structure of the economy.
Mr Gideon Quarcoo, a former Deputy Minister of Communication noted that GIFEC had played a significant role in the promotion of ICT and called on the authorities to continue to educate and developed the minds of Ghanaians through ICT.
Nii Abeo Kyerekwanda, Chairman of the Canoe and Fishermen Council, noted that the device provided by GIFEC had improved fishing activities in the waters and appealed to GIFEC to provide more of such devices.
GIFEC is an agency of the Ministry of Communication to facilitate the provision of basic telephony to un-served and underserved communities in the country.
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Quelle/Source: Government of Ghana, 20.09.2012
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