GT trains more eCARE entrepreneurs
Gilbert Boyefio
24/04/2007
The first batch of Ghana Telecom's eCommerce and Renewable Energy Project, Entrepreneurs for 2007, have successfully passed out at the GT University College in Accra amidst calls on entrepreneurs to live up to expectation.
Addressing the participants, the Principal of GTUC, Osei Darkwa, noted that one problem facing Ghana in particular and Africa in general was the poor transmission of information to the people. He explained that this is so because the people have not been part of the decision-making process but had always been recipients of information flow from the top to the bottom.
According to him, the entrepreneurs have been offered the opportunity of their live times to bring changes to their communities.
Dr Darkwa said the essence of the e-CARE project was to bring communication, information technology to the door steps of the community.
He mentioned that the university was ready to partner with eCARE to develop better programmes to deal with the challenges facing the rural people.
"Go to your respective communities, anybody who accepts the eCARE project, baptise them with the computer, telephone and the internet," he charged the entrepreneurs.
Joseph Abanyin, Project Manager eCARE, observed that the project hoped to train about 100 entrepreneurs by the end of this year.
He stated that the 24 trainees, who are passing out, formed part of the over 100 trained so far. The trainees were taken through a five-day training programme on marketing, book keeping, accounting and customer care to equip them in the day-to-day business of the eCARE Centre.
Other elements of the training include teaching on how to expand information communication technology businesses, how to use a phone system to conduct business, basic training on photovoltaic fundamentals and maintenance of the PV system for optimum performance.
Mr Abanyin said some of the impact of the project included creation of information access and sharing infrastructure for under-served communities, affordable communication for under-served communities and improved livelihoods of entrepreneurs and their families.
The eCARE Project provides suitable ICT infrastructure for information access in deprived communities using renewable energy, and it trains and provides financial support to entrepreneurs to deliver ICT products and clean energy services.
It currently had 52 centers in eight regions namely, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Volta, Western, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions.
It hopes to exceed the 2006 target by two, with an additional 17 centers to be established in April and May this year.
The Corporate Manager of Ghana Commercial Bank, the main financiers of the project, Justice Gaveh, urged the participants not to abuse the opportunity offered them but prove to the world that they were capable of changing their situation and those of their communities.
He was not happy with the Ghanaian attitude towards contracting loans and the management of the loans, he said..
Mr. Gaveh reminded participants that whatever loan they take for a project was not a free gift but that they must work hard to repay such loan.
On behalf of his colleagues Benson Kwadwo Adusah, a participant, thanked the management of GT and the eCARE Project for the opportunity offered them.
24/04/2007
The first batch of Ghana Telecom's eCommerce and Renewable Energy Project, Entrepreneurs for 2007, have successfully passed out at the GT University College in Accra amidst calls on entrepreneurs to live up to expectation.
Addressing the participants, the Principal of GTUC, Osei Darkwa, noted that one problem facing Ghana in particular and Africa in general was the poor transmission of information to the people. He explained that this is so because the people have not been part of the decision-making process but had always been recipients of information flow from the top to the bottom.
According to him, the entrepreneurs have been offered the opportunity of their live times to bring changes to their communities.
Dr Darkwa said the essence of the e-CARE project was to bring communication, information technology to the door steps of the community.
He mentioned that the university was ready to partner with eCARE to develop better programmes to deal with the challenges facing the rural people.
"Go to your respective communities, anybody who accepts the eCARE project, baptise them with the computer, telephone and the internet," he charged the entrepreneurs.
Joseph Abanyin, Project Manager eCARE, observed that the project hoped to train about 100 entrepreneurs by the end of this year.
He stated that the 24 trainees, who are passing out, formed part of the over 100 trained so far. The trainees were taken through a five-day training programme on marketing, book keeping, accounting and customer care to equip them in the day-to-day business of the eCARE Centre.
Other elements of the training include teaching on how to expand information communication technology businesses, how to use a phone system to conduct business, basic training on photovoltaic fundamentals and maintenance of the PV system for optimum performance.
Mr Abanyin said some of the impact of the project included creation of information access and sharing infrastructure for under-served communities, affordable communication for under-served communities and improved livelihoods of entrepreneurs and their families.
The eCARE Project provides suitable ICT infrastructure for information access in deprived communities using renewable energy, and it trains and provides financial support to entrepreneurs to deliver ICT products and clean energy services.
It currently had 52 centers in eight regions namely, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Volta, Western, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions.
It hopes to exceed the 2006 target by two, with an additional 17 centers to be established in April and May this year.
The Corporate Manager of Ghana Commercial Bank, the main financiers of the project, Justice Gaveh, urged the participants not to abuse the opportunity offered them but prove to the world that they were capable of changing their situation and those of their communities.
He was not happy with the Ghanaian attitude towards contracting loans and the management of the loans, he said..
Mr. Gaveh reminded participants that whatever loan they take for a project was not a free gift but that they must work hard to repay such loan.
On behalf of his colleagues Benson Kwadwo Adusah, a participant, thanked the management of GT and the eCARE Project for the opportunity offered them.
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