The exercise begun on Saturday March 24 and after 40 days of a fairly successful exercise, Statistics available by the end of the third phase of the exercise has it that about 10.5 million prospective voters have had their names registered and out of these about 8,121 cases of multiple registration involving 2,864 individuals had also been detected.
He said government in 2011 set out a-four-year Science and Technology Innovation Development Plan aimed at achieving some specific projects and its implementation.
These include establishing an ICT Park in Ghana, promoting access to computers, the internet and computing device, expanding and enhancing the capacity of ICT training facilities and promoting the productive application of ICT through activities such as e-teaching, e-commerce, e-banking and e-health and telemedicine.
Weiterlesen: GH: Government committed to promote ICT – Dr Mustafa
Professor Oheneba-Sakyi said this at the first congregation ceremony for distance education programme at the University of Ghana’s Institute of Continuing and Distance Education in Accra.
He said greater opportunities would be opened for post-graduate E-Learning programmes via online and other technology-mediated learning for the school’s educational entrepreneurs for lifelong learning.
Weiterlesen: GH: Boost capacities of Distance Education to deliver on ICT – Prof Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi
According to a source at the EC, with that provisional figure, the EC was on course to achieving a successful biometric voters registration, which ends on May 5, 2012.
The EC projected to register 13 million voters before the beginning of the compilation of the biometric voters roll.
Weiterlesen: GH: 10.5 Million Prospective Voters Registered In Biometric Exercise
Ghana has spent millions of U.S dollars on programs like National Identification program, Biometric Voters register and recently, Ghana had Population and housing census which results still remains in a Limbo .Apart from the millions of financial resources that have been spent on some of these programs without success, the magnitude of the various allegations that have been leveled against each other in the political dispensation in our country nowadays is not something to write home about. If a sustainable system is not implemented in the country, some few unscrupulous politicians and civil servants will take our dear country for ransom, thereby contributing to hopelessness of the future generation.