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Biometrie

  • GH: Sunyani Municipality records low turnout in pilot biometric exercise

    Mr Samuel Boadu, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday said the Sunyani Municipality recorded the lowest turnout at the two centres opened for the pilot Biometric Exercise.

    He said publicity on the exercise went on well but it was negligence on the part of the electorate that contributed to the low turnout.

    In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, Mr Boadu said Sunyani Municipality and Tain District were selected for the exercise.

  • GH: Training In Biometric Machine Use Must Be Top Priority In Next Election - CODEO

    The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to actively engage electoral officers and all persons associated with the Biometric Verification Machines process in intensive education prior to future elections.

    According to the group: “if Ghana is to continue in the use of Biometric Verification System for voting, then the Electoral Commission must procure adequate Biometric logistics and associated protective measures and backups to forestall malfunction during polling.”

  • GH: Vote Transfer Will Be Difficult This Year - Deputy EC Chair

    A deputy chairman of the Electoral Commission, David Kanga has warned that transferring of voters from one polling station to another will be very difficult this year due to the introduction of the biometric register.

    Even though the Commission is working around the clock to find possible ways of dealing with the issue, Mr. Kanga cautioned voters to register at polling stations in their neighbourhood.

  • GH: Voters Register Ready, August

    The Electoral Commission (EC) has finished collating data of the 13 million people captured in the biometric voters’ register. The register is slated for exhibition in August, EC officials have disclosed.

    The exhibition will pave the way for a comprehensive voter’s register since voters would be given the opportunity to verify their inclusion in the register that will form the basis of the country’s new electoral database.

  • Ghana 2012 Elections to cost 243, million Ghana Cedis

    Elections 2012 estimated at 243, million Ghana Cedis

    Elections 2012 is estimated to cost the nation 243, 528, 305.00 Ghana Cedis, Electoral Commission (EC) Electoral Budget available to the Ghana News Agency at the weekend revealed.

    The budget estimates that the Biometric Voter Registration Exercise will cost 148,942,378.00 Ghana cedis; the exhibition of the Provisional Register 7,477,966.00 Ghana cedis and the Presidential and Parliamentary elections 87,107,961.00 Ghana cedis.

  • Ghana begins compilation of biometric voters' register

    Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) on Saturday began the compilation of a biometric voters' register that is expected to clean up the bloated voters' roll. The exercise which will end on 5 May is expected to capture the data of some 12 million potential voters.

    About 42,000 temporary personnel have been trained to operate the 7,000 digital registration kits for the exercise with the capacity to register between 100 and 150 persons per day.

  • Ghana Immigration Service To Keep Biometric Documentation On Migrants

    The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) will soon embark on a biometric documentation of all unregistered migrants from neighbouring countries, particularly Fulani herdsmen.

    The move is to enable the GIS to map their locations and make the monitoring of their activities easier while in the country to ensure that undesirable elements do not infiltrate the country.

    Director of Immigration, Dr Peter Wiredu, who announced this at the opening of the GIS Regional Commanders Conference in Accra said due to the ECOWAS protocol which allowed people from neighbouring countries to enter Ghana for 90 days without a visa, it had become very difficult for GIS to monitor them.

  • Ghana leads the world...

    … in biometric registration and verification of voters in the just ended election

    Ghana has scored another first in her democratic credentials by successfully using biometric system to verify over 11 million people on the same day.

    A few weeks ago, Ghana completed a successful election using the most advanced technology available to worldwide.

    The 2012 election marks Ghana’s successful sixth election since returning to Constitutional rule in 1992.

  • Ghana to introduce health biometric ID cards, pilot e-claims

    Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) will be introducing biometric ID cards to its subscribers and piloting electronic claims processing, reports Graphic Online.

    The NHIS plans to issue the biometric ID cards to its subscribers upon registration.

    The e-claims processing pilots will start this year and will aim at creating greater efficiencies. The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will be opening three more claims centers throughout the country, in addition to the center in Accra.

  • Ghana to register about 12 million voters biometrically in 40 days

    Ghana’s Electoral Commission has projected that it will biometrically register 12 million eligible voters in 40 days, for the country’s upcoming elections scheduled for December 7, 2012, when the much debated registration exercise takes off on March 24, 2012.

    Disclosing this Wednesday March 7, 2012 in Accra at a roundtable discussion organised by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), stated; “We will be doing our registration in 40 days and we do not expect to go far beyond 12 million”.

    The EC Chairman said the projection is based on figures so far received from the Statistical Service of Ghana on Ghana’s last census conducted in 2010.

  • Ghana to test biometric voter system ahead of election

    Ghana’s Electoral Commission will conduct a two-day test of its biometric voter verification system at selected polling stations from November 3 to 4.

    The exercise aims to ensure that biometric machines have been properly evaluated before the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.

    The machines will be used to verify voter identity before a voter is provided with a paper ballot, and is the first time biometrics will be used in a Ghana election.

  • Ghana: Biometric voting system by 2016

    Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, on Thursday said government had targeted 2016 for the implementation of biometric voting system in Ghana. "Government is ready to ensure that e-voting becomes a reality in 2016 but if things go well we may even start with it in 2012," he told a meeting of ICT and e-governance experts in Accra.

    The minister said this when he opened the maiden two-day General Meeting of the Africa E-Governance Academy (AEA). The academy, jointly established by the Open Society Institute of West Africa (OSIWA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was designed to develop and transfer knowledge and expertise concerning e-governance in West African countries as well as in Mauritania and Chad.

  • Ghana's Electoral Commission To Conduct Pilot Biometric Registration

    Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) is to conduct two pilot biometric registration exercises in Eastern Region (Province) between Feb 25 and 29 to test the various arrangements made for the main exercise.

    The exercise will be conducted in one registration centre in an urban area and another in a rural area, says Eric Mensah-Bonsu, the Deputy Eastern Regional Director of the EC.

    In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in this capital of eastern Region Monday, he said that for the urban area, the Nursing Training School Registration Centre in the New Juaben Municipality has been chosen, whilst the Akyem Abenase Presby Primary School Registration Centre in the Akyemmansa District had been selected for the rural area.

  • Ghana's Electoral Commission To Get Biometric Voter Equipment

    The Electoral Commission (EC) is to acquire biometric voter equipment by February next year to start biometric voter registration in the first quarter of the year, says Christian Owusu Parry, the EC's Head of Public Affairs.

    He said here on Wednesday that a committee was currently working on the technical aspects of the acquisition process, and added that the EC had agreed to introduce biometric registration since it would help check against double registration and eliminate names of fake voters in the Voters' Register.

  • Ghana's Electoral Commission Urged To Speed Up Biometric Voting

    Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) has been urged to expedite action on the registration and verification of the Biometric Voting process to ensure transparent and peaceful parliamentary and presidential polls in 2012.

    K. K. Sam, the Western Region (Province) Secretary of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Takoradi, the Western Region capital, over the weekend .

  • Ghana’s Electoral Commission builds ‘secret’ biometric data recovery centre

    The Electoral Commission (EC) says all data collected after the country’s biometric registration in May 2012 will be safe.

    According to the EC, it has established a data recovery centre outside its head office at an unknown location to serve as a back-up to its central database.

    The recovery centre will contain the same data as the central database at the EC’s head office in Accra.

  • Ghanaian prisoners will be registered to vote – Dr. Afari Gyan

    Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman, Electoral Commission of Ghana, has reiterated that Ghanaians incarcerated in the country’s prisons will be given an opportunity to vote in the upcoming general elections.

    He said in view of that steps have been taken to ensure they take part in this month’s biometric registration that will take place across the country.

    Answering a question on whether prisoners in Ghana would also be covered in the biometric register to vote during the country’s December general elections, after he had addressed a roundtable discussion held in Accra, Dr. Afari-Gyan said “Yes, the prisoners – we will register them and they will vote.”

  • Ghanaian public workers appeal to Finance Ministry to expand physical biometric registration centers

    Some public workers in Ghana have appealed to the Ministry of Finance to open biometric registration offices in other regions of the country.

    Currently, as reported in the Ghana News Agency, the only registration center is located in the Ministry of Finance in Accra, which means a lot of travel for those outside the country’s capital. In the interim, suggest the public workers, the government should increase the number of computers and workers at the existing registration center.

  • Ghanaians to vote biometrically in 2016 elections

    Ghana’s enthusiastic efforts to consolidate democracy are growing day by day as the government has hinted that plans are at foot for Ghanaians to vote biometrically in the 2016 general elections.

    To this end, the government together with other agencies will introduce a Biometric Voters’ Register soon to register all Ghanaians who are legitimate to cast their votes in the country.

  • Gov’t Biometrics Spending to Reach 8.6 Billion in 2020: ABI

    Market research firm ABI Research has released some new findings and predictions on the governmental biometrics market. The firm expects governmental biometric expenditures to reach $8.6 billion USD by the year 2020.

    In a statement, ABI Research Analyst Dimitrios Pavlakis pointed out that while the consumer electronics and enterprise segments of the global biometrics market are on the rise, “governmental spending still forms the largest portion of biometric expenditures.” He emphasized applications in access control, national ID systems, border control, law enforcement, and work force management as key drivers of the spending.

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