Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), Dr Rashid Tanko-Computer has assured that GIFEC under his leadership will resolve all network challenges in rural communities.
Speaking on Hot Issues, Dr. Tanko-Computer underscored the need for government to connect communities with network challenges to telephone network to aid in the government’s Resetting Agenda.
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“One of our major activities is rural telephony, the network challenges, communities that do not have network and all that.
“We zoom in there to make sure that they also joined internet and telephony highway. GIFEC will go into those areas, we want to make sure that all communities without network are hooked up and have a semblance of communication…GIFEC will solve all these problems,” he said on TV3, Sunday, March 2, 2025.
He further disclosed government’s plan to revamp Community ICT centres and equip the centres with modern technologies to support government policy of training one million coders.
“These our community centres, now we call them Community ICT centres, we are going to up it because of our one million coders that we want to train.
“Most communities will get these CIC and we will equip them with state-of-the-art ICT equipment so that our youth will get proper training of these coding system that we are going to do,” he added.
He said GIFEC has commence work and currently ensuring that its internal structures are in place and by second quarter of the year Ghanaians will experience the effect of GIFEC.
