Under the scheme launched on Saturday, the school children will be enabled to add value to the subsistence farm businesses of their parents through the use of the internet and mobile phones.
The programme dubbed, Mobile Library Internet Service (MLIS) for Development, is under the auspices of the Volta Regional Directorate of the Ghana Library Authority (GLA), with funding from Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).
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He therefore directed the agencies to ensure that they process their salaries based on the data.
This was contained in a press release signed by the sector Minister and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Friday in Accra.
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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.”
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The NCR, made up of journalists specializing in the digital world, technology and telecom, hopes that the new pledge will assist in developing the knowledge and understanding of the ICT and telecom sectors in the country as the government pushes forward on a number of projects, including broadband expansion to rural areas and e-government initiatitves.
Under the agreement with NITA (National Information Technology Agency), Alcatel-Lucent will also manage network operations of Ghana’s entire ‘e-government’ program for three years commencing November 2012. The e-Ghana initiative is aimed at developing local IT services and improving the transparency and efficiency of government functions.
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