Ghana Telecom University College, India to establish African IT Institute in Ghan

Ghana Telecom University College in collaboration (GTUC) with the Indian government have concluded plans to establish an Indian-African Information Technology Institute to cater for member countries of the African Union.

Apart from creating in depth knowledge in information Technology, the Institute would also delve into the areas of health and education as major components of accelerated development in the continent.

Mr Harish Arora, Counsellor of the Indian High Commission announced this when the Indian and College delegations called on Vice President John Dranmani Mahama at the seat of government,Osu.

He said students of the Institute would be universally accepted on account of the intensity of the courses and appealed to the government of Ghana to support them with adequate infrastructure to bring the project into fruition.

The Vice President Mahama gave the assurance that government would through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) support the University College to establish a permanent University Campus to relieve them of their current congested premises.

He said government would in the interim provide temporal structures to kick-start the programme

Vice President Mahama said the establishment of the Institute was timely as it would fit into government's agenda to scale up the economy to become an emerging one in this year.

Mr. Mahama expressed Government’s delight that the African Union chose Ghana to host such an important infrastructure.

He said Ghana’s economy is expected to grow to about 13.5% GDP this year and the new ICT technology coming to Ghana will help contribute to that agenda.

Chairman of GTUC Prof. Walter Sandow Alhassan, observed that the University College hosts a lot of courses but the coming on board of the Indian-African Institute of Information Technology will expand its frontier to accommodate and run more programmes.

According to him the Courses would help enhance the performance and advancement of activities of the AU and urged member countries to take advantage of the facility to develop their respective countries.







Story: Office Of The Vice President
27/1/11