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He said the EC was still compiling the registration figures nationwide and also cross checking to find out areas of multiple registration and accidental multiple registrations.

Mr. Safo Kantanka said this at the opening of a one-day workshop in Koforidua on Thursday, to educate political party executives on the in-built integrity of Ghana’s electoral process.

Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, EC Chairman who spelt out the criteria in Accra said a prospective voter is required to provide their exact date of birth, their current residential address as well as their hometown address.

The applicant is also required to show evidence of eligibility to register by providing a birth certificate, passport, baptismal card, a driver’s license or a national health insurance card, the national identity card or the existing voter’s identity card.

According to the Electoral Commission, the names of the persons who registered more than once would be published in the dailies so they can come forward with the extra cards for the EC to determine why and how the double registration occurred.

The EC promised to release the register to the parties today at an Inter Party Advisory Committee held last week.

Studies presented at the World Heart Federation's World Congress of Cardiology on 5 May 2014 showcase new research on best practices in the design and development of healthcare mobile applications, in order to optimize usability and maximise impact in different populations across the world.

Mr. Anthony Oppong, Effutu Municipal Director of the Commission who made this known at the third Inter-Party Dialogue Committee in Winneba on Tuesday said the names of the offenders together with those from other parts of the country had been send to the Police headquarters for further action.

He said a total of 47,014 people registered in the area during the just ended Biometric Registration Exercises against 43,000 in the previous register.

Prospective voters wishing to take advantage of the proxy and the transfer of votes from one polling station to another would, however, have to notify the EC 42 days before the polls instead of the current 21 days.

The introduction of the biometric registration in 2012 elections, according to the commission, was to help check double registration and eliminate ghost names in the voters’ register.

The EC would acquire the biometric voter equipment by February 2012, Parry Owusu said.

This is because they believe it was one major way of ensuring free, fair and transparent elections in 2012.

This was contained in a communiqué signed by 10 representatives of the various groups at the end of a seminar at Wa.

To that end, the commission has called on the organizations that have the capacity to provide equipment for biometric registration to avail themselves of the opportunity.

This is in the line with the EC’s arrangement to replace the existing voters register that was compiled in 2004.

He said innovation of the public sector and e-governance, public sector management and employment, public finance and fiscal policy, regulatory policy and risk management, which were the tenets of corporate governance, were very critical in the total development of every country.

Among these agencies are Ghana Post, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and Ghana Police Service (GPS).

Huawei Technologies Limited handed the ultra modern state of the art service centre to the Ministry of Communications to facilitate the delivery of Government services to citizens under the e-Government programme.

“Information and Communication Technology capacity building programmes for the youth should be organised at the district levels…with emphasis on how to use ICT to create jobs, subscribe to jobs and search for jobs online,” a 12-point communiqué issued at the end of the conference said.

In addition to the English Language, the website employs Chinese (both simplified and traditional), French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish as its medium of communication. This, according to the Board, would enable GFZB to reach out to customers and potential ones in more than one language.

GeGov is a partnership between the Ghana Community Network Services Ltd (GCNet) and the Government of Ghana to automate business registration and tax administration. The government is represented on the project supported and partly funded by the World Bank, by the Ministry of Communications, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Registrar-General’s Department (RGD) and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA).

GeGov is a Public Private Partnership between GCNet and Government of Ghana, specifically the Ministry of Communications, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Registrar-General's Department (RGD) and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), to automate Business Registration and Tax Administration. The project is supported and partly funded by the World Bank.

GCNet has been mandated to design, finance, build, operate and transfer an eGovernment System including new applications for both the RGD and the GRA.

The institutions are the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) with the Minister as its Chairman, the National Communication Authority (NCA) with Mr. Eugene Baffoe Bonnie as Chairman and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), with Professor Nii Quaynor as Chairman.

He said apart from other benefits, the ETLS would accelerate the pace of industrialisation in the sub-region and pledged the Chamber's commitment to assist enterprises with their applications to obtain ECOWAS status for their products.

Mr Adjei-Baah was speaking at a press launch of the automation of the process of issuing certificate of origin to cover exports from Ghana.

The Healthcare Federation of Ghana is urging Private health Sector Players (PSP) to take advantage of the current trend of technological advancement or risk being obsolete.

According to the federation, the wave of digital transformation, which has revolutionized various industries, is now knocking on the doors of the health sector and is inevitable.

In this regard, private health sector players are expected to adopt digital health practices which, involve the digitalization of business processes, enabling patients to exchange personal health data, and fostering data-driven decision-making.

Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, the Minister of Trade and Industry, has advocated the establishment of a trade portal for the African continent.

He said the portal would help in trade facilitation and improvement in bilateral trade relations.

Dr Spio-Garbrah was speaking at the Swiss-Ghanaian Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s Breakfast meeting on the theme: “Innovations in trade facilitation and e-government” in Accra.