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The project, which will begin as a pilot, is expected to also enhance transparency in the public procurement process; provide a common platform for use by public institutions in public procurement and public financial management; and enhance competition by facilitating increased participation of service providers for government contracts.

The Ghana digital ID program has started delivering multi-application credentials to citizens, the start of an ambitious effort that officials say will result in the issuance of cards to some 16 million citizens within a year. Eventually, Ghana’s ID card could outpace similar ones in Europe in terms of how people can use them, according to Cryptovision, a vendor involved with the project.

The first GhanaCard was recently issued to the Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. It offers identity verification and “will enable strong two-factor authentication as a password replacement for e-government services online and will be used for the digital signature of electronic documents,” Germany-based Cryptovision says.

Information available to Biztechafrica in Accra indicates that the government of Ghana, through the ministry of communication, is now expected to countersign the loan agreement and submit it to parliament for ratification. Ghana’s pursuance of a digital terrestrial transmission platform is expected to cost the country about US$95million.

The project sites are currently running on Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) which is providing about 30 to 40 megabit-per-second data rates.

Briefing the press July 30, 2013 in Accra, Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Dr Omane Boamah said “presently, the Ghana e-government platform project is upgrading existing WIMAX sites to LTE.”

The E-health initiative, a remote doctor/patient interface, allows a patient to see a doctor without leaving his home or office.

It does not seek to prevent patients from visiting hospital but to augment existing health care delivery services.

The Project, which is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between GCNet and the Government, would cover the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

A statement issued by the GeGov secretariat in Accra on Tuesday, named the Project collaborators as the Ministry of Communications, GRA, RGD and the National Information Technology Agency.

The ICT4AD that, was launched in 2004 by government identified health as one of the priority sectors in which the broad adoption of ICT could enable the government to achieve its developmental goals.

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.

Dr. Roger Koranteng, Secretary of GIDC, said the integrated software programme, which is yet to be introduced in Ghana, would collate data from every government sector and facilitate easy access to national information.

He said “this software has so many uses, and if it had been introduced earlier it would have helped address the voter verification challenges because it is a software that would have already captured data from the population census and identify people who have reached the voting age.”

The software when adopted would address issues including the voter verification problem in Ghana and the challenges facing the nation in the area of census data collection and analysis for effective implementation of policies and programmes.

Dr. Roger Koranteng, Secretary of GIDC, said a comprehensive integrated e-government technology solution was needed to address the government service delivery on a long-term basis. Dr. Koranteng was speaking at a workshop to introduce the software to various institutions and agencies in Accra on Monday.

The District was curve out of the Krachi West District by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in 2011.

The donation was at the request of Mr John Magisi, Member of Parliament (MP) for Krachi Nchumuru.

The award is in recognition of Ghana’s contribution to the development of Rural Telephony in bridging the gap between the rural communities and the urban centres.

The summit provides an opportunity for nations to rededicate their commitment to the WSIS documents signed in 2003 by their Heads of State.

Kathy Gibson is at ITU Telecom World in Durban – Ghana is open for business, and is creating an enabling digital environment to make this a reality. In fact, connectivity should be considered a civic right, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, minister of communications in Ghana.

He said developing the right human resources for the country would require that the nation shifted to technological training, as it was ICT that ruled the world of today.

Prof Dzidonu made the assertion at a meeting with some journalists in the Western Region to officially introduce the AIT Open University system and other programmes of the school to the region.

Equipment for the center has been customized to meet the needs of the visually impaired, which include translations and talking keyboards.

The Ghana Information and Communication Technology Directorate (GICTeD) launched the Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the E-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) projects to facilitate the exchange of data between government agencies, public institutions and other relevant sectors to improve public sector service delivery.

Ghana on Tuesday officially launched an online passport application service as part of its e-governance strategy.

Launching the project, Ghana’s Foreign Minister Hanna Tetteh called on Ghanaians to take advantage of the service as it would make it easier for them to apply and obtain a passport within the shortest possible time.

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.