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The Ghanaian government has formed two committees, the Inter-Ministerial Oversight (IMO) Committee and the Technical Committee of the e-Transform Project, all under the aegis of the e-Ghana project. The IMO committee has the core objective of guiding and ensuring that the e-Ghana project is well-executed. Minister for Communications Edward Omane Boamah said the government had been implementing the e-Ghana project with a USD 97 million World Bank support and that the project was expected to complete in December. He said the e-Ghana project was designed to increase competitiveness in the ICT sector and increase income generation in the ICT sector.

Weiterlesen: Ghana forms committee to complete e-project

National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card holders in the Asante-Akim South District are flocking the district office in a bid to switch to the scheme’s newly introduced biometric card.

The situation is not being helped by the current arrangement under which biometric registration of first timers and replacement of expired cards has been centralized and could only be done at the district office.

Weiterlesen: GH: Mad rush for NHIS biometric ID Cards

Two committees— the Inter-Ministerial Oversight (IMO) Committee and the Technical Committee of the e-Transform Project—all under the e-Ghana project were, yesterday, inaugurated in Accra.

The IMO committee, which has Ato Sarpong, Deputy Minister for Communication, as its chairman, has the core objective of guiding and ensuring that the e-Ghana project is well-executed.

In an address, the Minister for Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, said the Ministry of Communications (MoC) had been implementing the e-Ghana project with a US$ 97 World Bank support which was expected to be completed in December 2014.

Weiterlesen: E-Ghana Project To Be Completed in December 2014—Dr Boamah

Ghana says it will officially commission the completion of work on the fibre optic network connecting the eastern corridor linking Ho in the Volta region and Bawku in the Northern Region of the country by the end of December. According to Biztechafrica, all the necessary checks and testing have been carried out by the project contractors on the network. The news portal says the government has initiated moves to award the western corridor contract come the first quarter of 2015.

The Deputy Minister of Communication, Edward Ato Sarpong, told Biztechafrica that he believes the completion of a national fibre network in Ghana will present opportunities for the country's entrepreneurs to use it to improve not only their lives but also those of their communities.

Weiterlesen: Ghana set to launch first phase of fibre network