The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Finance Electronic Communication (GIFEC), Mr Kofi Attor, has called on computer users, especially those in public offices, to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to fight corruption in the country.
This, according to him, would forestall instances of corruption in public workplaces and prevent the government from being negatively tagged as corrupt.
Mr Attor was speaking to about 24 librarians and managers of Community Information Centres (CICs) who attended a four-day ICT training at the JAK-City at Nkwantakese near Kodie in the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region.
He said computers were used in the advanced countries to check administration hiccups and as well prevent corruption by ensuring fairness in administration.
He said state institutions such as the ministries, departments and metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs), among others had been using ICT for ages but had failed in the fight against corruption.
Computers, to him, were pregnant with a number of input devices which when used properly and appropriately could fight corruption that had been an albatross hanging around the neck of successive governments.
Mr Attor, who is also a former Member of Parliament for Ho Central, urged the trainees to be humble and respectful to the people in their various localities, especially those who came to their libraries and CICs for computer training purposes.
He indicated that GIFEC would soon train hairdressers and artisans to use computers for their various businesses, saying that computer was not meant for only the middle-class.
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