China has made available to the country a concessionary facility
of US$30 million to support the first phase of Ghana's Information
Super Highway Project, the Ghana News Agency quoted President John
Agyekum Kufuor as saying on Tuesday.
The project, which starts from Accra and terminates at Tamale,
is designed to ensure effective connectivity to render quality
service delivery and balanced socio-economic development throughout
the country.
Kufuor, who was inaugurating the Ghana Telecommunications
University College (GTUC) at Tesano in Accra, said the government
was seeking additional credit for the rest of the project to be
executed without delay.
The GTUC was established by Ghana Telecom to train middle and
high-level professionals to operate, maintain and manage
telecommunications and Information Communication Technology-based
(ICT) services, which had become the backbone of the new business
landscape and innovation process in telecommunications and other
related industries.
Kufuor said he was hopeful that the training of students at the
University College and other technologically oriented institutions
would move in tandem with the project to bring about optimal
utilization of the infrastructure.
(Xinhua News Agency August 16, 2006)
