The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications is rolling out a free IT training for Ghanaians as part of efforts to expand internet usage. The first phase of the Digital Inclusive Program, to be run on pilot basis, targets government workers. Chief Executive of GIFEC, Kofi Attoh, says education, health and other professionals who lack basic skills in computer and internet will undergo a 40-hour teaching module. GIFEC has so far built 170 Community Information Centers across the country. Fifty more are expected to be completed by the end of the year. It has also supported some second-cycle and other higher institutions with computers and internet connectivity. Twenty-two selected teachers in ICT have attended a training session at the John Agyekum Kuffuor ICT Center at Nkwantakese in the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region. The beneficiaries who are expected to train people at the local level were introduced to computers, file management and digital life style. Mr. Attoh told the closing ceremony GIFEC wants to add value to people by encouraging them to patronize Community Information Centers. He says the programme will extend to the informal sector. “It’s a revolution. We are moving another step forward. What we do is to build the Community Information Centers and put 10 machines, then we train people to man them…If we don’t take time, the thing become static”. Mr. Attoh however announced GIFEC will soon withdraw its support for some institutions to fund payment of their own internet usage. “Internet is not free anywhere in the world, not even in America. We are taking the training colleges off by the end of the year because they have been charging some small-small monies…We are taken the technical schools off. We are taken the NVTIs off. We are paying huge dollars for them”. He explained.