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Institute for eGovernment

The Second Lady, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur has called for the establishment of regional networks of digital libraries in Africa to accelerate the pace of research on the continent.

She said without any conscious effort to digitize the libraries and archives it would be difficult for the continent to harness its potential for accelerated development.

The company gave the announced this at the recent launch of the phase two of the e-government project in Accra.

Funding for the whole project comprise a US$150 million loan from the Chinese EXIM Bank, with a US$30million concessionary bit; a US$40million loan from the World Bank and recently, some €37million concessionary loan from the Danish government.

I think it had to do with publicity. The aged are by their radio and television sets all the time. The younger ones go off to work and may have missed the media announcements on the exercise.

The personnel unanimously and vehemently kicked against the system.

As part of efforts to get as many people to use the biometric e-zwich cards which can be used to perform various banking and retail functions, the government has ordered that henceforth all national service personnel should be enrolled onto the e-zwich system.

The ICT centre has been equipped with 18 computers which were donated by the Ejisu/Boston College (USA) Computer Literacy Project, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based at Ejisu, to boost computer education at the school which also.

Augustine Sefa, Deputy Commissioner, Training and Development at Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said staff of the Authority would from November 2022 receive information technology training through an e-learning platform.

Mr Sefa who was speaking at the official commencement of the GRA’s IT training centre in Tema said E-learning which was a feature of the centre would enable all its staff across the country to access the needed IT training without having to travel to Accra with its associated financial burden and inconveniences.

The stakeholders noted that the decision to spend such a colossal sum on the new equipment is only a waste of scarce resources which could be channelled into other productive uses.

They are more worried that at a time when government is cash trapped, such an amount would be wasted on a substitute equipment to replace an existing one which was donated, and is being maintained free of charge, by the American government.

He said for the ease of learning and meeting the challenges of the global world, it was imperative for students to use such facilities because their benefits far outweigh their disadvantages and tasked headmasters to have a second look at the situation.

It said the WACS cable, which was expected to go commercial in early 2012, had 15 terminal stations along route and was the first ultra high capacity submarine cable system deploying next generation technology to connect Ghana (West Africa) to Europe northward and southbound connecting along the continental coast terminating in South Africa.

The opening of the centre means residents of the region who want to acquire biometric passports do not need to travel to Accra to have their documents processed.

The Brong Ahafo Region is one of the six pilot regions in the country to benefit from the biometric passport application centre project, which is in line with the government’s e-governance policy to decentralise biometric passport application.

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.

An eight-member delegation from Tanzania, led by Mr Amon A. Mpanju, the Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs, is in the country to understudy the transformational agenda of the National Lotteries Authority.

The visit forms part of the efforts by the Tanzanian Government to restructure and transform its Lottery industry and operations.

A statement from the two organisations said GeGov was a Public Private Partnership between GCNet and Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Communications, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Registrar-General’s Department (RGD) and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), with support from the World Bank.

The laptops will be equipped with special Internet modems which will allow the teachers to share ideas on subjects and teaching methods.

Mr Mosses Anibaba, Country Director of the British Council, made the call at the inauguration of the “Nana Kofi Adjei Imbeah e-learning Centre” at the Anaji M/A School Takoradi.

The ICT centre is equipped with 18 computers and was sponsored by the British Council and Microsoft in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES).

She said government aimed at distributing over 400,000 laptops to both students and lecturers of tertiary institutions by the end of 2016 to inculcate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the country’s educational system.

On Saturday, the Ghanaian Times captured the Public Affairs Director of the Commission virtually pouring cold water on the biometric voting system. Mr. Christian Owusu-Pare is quoted by the state-run newspaper, as stating in a radio interview, that the people of Ghana might not be ready for the innovation in the 2012 vote.

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.”

She has suggested that more places be given to girls in terms of admission into ICT field of study at schools.

Madam Barikisu said this during the inauguration of an ICT Club for the students of the Tamale Girls Senior High School (SHS) in Tamale.

An international trade expert has described the UNIPASS Trade Facilitation Tool to be deployed at the country’s ports as being among the best holistic and comprehensive systems developed to boost trade facilitation and customs management in the world.

According to him, the Customs Uni-Pass International Agency (CUPIA) of South Korea, which designed and built the UNIPASS technology, has consistently been ranked among the top 10 on the World Bank Ease of Doing Business Ranking on the Trading Across Borders criteria.