Kofi Annan hails Ghana-India IT center
Friday, 12 December 2003, 20:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has hailed the opening of an India-funded IT centre named after him in the Ghanaian capital as a "vivid demonstration of South-South cooperation". He congratulated the nations for the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in information and communication technology (ICT), which had gone "from just an idea to the state-of-the-art facility". Annan, in a statement, hoped it would help bridge the digital divide by empowering people in Ghana and throughout Africa. "Too many of the world's people remain untouched by the information revolution," he said. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was to visit Ghana to inaugurate the centre but cancelled the trip, inaugurated the centre Tuesday through video-conferencing.
Source: IANS
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