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Shall we retrieve our remembrance beside this simply but thorny African saw which says: "If your down is black and you do not submit your go before to a Barber, common man will cut the coat for you." To wit: "No initiative, no end consequences." Information and Communication Technology ICT has not lone succeeded in transforming the worldwide into a microscopic community but has ready-made it possible for human race to be nonindustrial another abode place on the far side the moon in any case the celestial body Earth. But it seems to this novelist that the charge at which other continents are scrambling for outer space in the space, and the gait at which Africa is travel scientifically and technologically, it may transport different two centuries, that is, possibly in the 23rd century in the past Africa can content a set in the extraterrestrial. Fortunately for Africa, however, even still the Continent itself seems to be utter technologically, within are extensive individualist African citizens specked in all corners of the earth who are causative mechanically to furtherance of group into the celestial. This author can bring up at smallest possible one national of Africa - a Ghanaian to be literal by entitle Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollenu who is a Member of the NASA Mars Rover Mission in America. So, therefore, location is hope for Africa scientifically and mechanically.

In 2003, Ghana Government realised the compound of a all-embracing ICT Policy for the commonwealth. It is celebrated as Ghana Information and Communication Technology for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD). It was spearheaded by the Ministry of Communications. It may, however, be of historical interest to authorities in endorsement that the tough grind on the ICT Policy for Ghana in actuality started in October 1998 by the past NDC Government. A National Communications Policy Conference dubbed, COMPOL '98 involving all stakeholders in the ICT sector was held at the Accra International Conference Center in Accra. The line written material was finalized in October 2000 at Akosombe for the positive reception of Cabinet. However, due to officialdom the after Cabinet could not slip away the Communications Bill until that time elections 2000. Then in September 2001, the NPP Government too arranged other National Communications Policy Conference, control at GIMPA to reassessment and tidings the Communication Policy Document formulated by the foregoing Government. The outcome is what is nowadays referred to as GHANA ICT POLICY FOR ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT. It is worthy to notice that once one Government initiates a project or programme which is in the political unit interest, another Government will embezzle it up, inspection it, tidings and add to upon it alternatively of throwing it out nakedness. And it is recalled that it was on that fateful Tuesday of September 11, 2001 once the communicating meeting was wide-eyed at GIMPA that the tragical word of violent attack of the World Trade Center flashed decussate the planet. Within the frame work of ICT4AD, Ghana Government has embarked upon several projects as well as E-Ghana Project to alter Ghana into an numbers enabled social group for fluency supported scheme fostering. But the focussing of this wisp is on the Community Information Centers (CICs) hang over which is not individual humanitarian but underprivileged cracker-barrel dweller-centered as healed.

As a substance of fact, the CICs project too falls inside the framework of World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), wherever all nations are enjoined to realize secure targets, as well as the providing of ICT access and skills to the unfortunate and bucolic dwellers worldwide. And one real plan of action Ghana Government adoptive to realize this reference point was to ingrain Community Information Centers in all the 230 constituencies all through the administrative district. Beyond WSIS's large objective for all nations, Ghana Government set its own decipherable cut and specific objectives to use the CICs work to catwalk the digital divide linking municipality and countryfied dwellers in the province. Government aims at demystifying that patriotic symptom about Computers by attractive ICT to the doorsteps of underprivileged and ignored brothers and sisters in remote arcadian areas finished the Community Information Centers in in the order of 170 districts in Ghana. The CICs are to service as grounding centers where on earth attainment of ICT skills and cognition are provided for disadvantaged group. The CICs are to transport system work online mortal to the ethnic group at the grassroots. Rural educational institution pupils and students can access online room services from top helpful institutions in any slice of worldwide. In reality the CICs are to service as a hub in the provision of Wide Area Network for multiple division offices of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies as fine as close commercial entities, NGOs and Community Based Organizations, Women Groups in operation in bucolic zones of the bucolic. Government is finance the CICs labor finished HIPC funds beside assistance of the Country business office of the UNDP in Accra.

Ghana Investment Fund for Telecommunications (GIFTEL) below the supervision of the Ministry of Communications is facilitating the providing of property and transportation to the CICs that have been constructed at underserved/un-served and cut off areas. The Project is person enforced in concert beside the Ministry of Information and National Orientation (MINO) in position of glad nurturing of the CICs nation broad next to scientific and administrative siding with from UNDP next to unique mention to ICT capableness place for Information Officers in the land. For instance, relating May 2007 and April 2008, MINO was able to equip supporting ICT size edifice to ended 100 of its District Information Officers, Public Relations Officers and Journalists. Some of the areas bristling with finished workshops and seminars contain Computer Literacy, Online-Journalism, Content Development and Information Technology Management, gratitude to UNDP.

As of December 2007, GIFTEL was likewise competent to present groundwork for finished 300 those from suburbanized organizations in 22 church property districts in the rural area. These are the people habituated definitely to survive the CICs. Records as well bear out that Wide Area Network had been completed to broaden net property to cardinal (26) CICs. Further, 37 (37) CICs are currently aforementioned to be functioning near in depth praise of computers, Local Area Network and Wide Area Network. According to Mr. Samuel Mensah, Director of Administration at GIFTEL, a complete of one cardinal and ten (110) computers had been deployed at cardinal (22) new CICs in whatever selected districts in the land.

It is essential to clarity the thorn that much CICs are reportable to be at assorted stages of evolution which an ICT precise individual will be in a greater arrangement to portray or mention upon. But it is rewarding to facts that tardily but steadily, Ghana's Community Information Centers extend beyond is on flight path. And all material possession person equal, as this novelist was assured, H.E. President J.A. Kufuor will properly administrative body more than a few designated CICs res publica widespread back the end of the period of time 2008.