Ghana Dot Com (GDC), the current manager of the .gh domain namespace, is to begin the process of transfer of the management of the namespace to Government.
This is in line with the Electronic Transaction Act 2008 (ACT 772) which empowers the Minister of Communications to hold the name space and manage it in trust for the people of Ghana.
The project aims at modernizing key ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to support the provision of citizen-friendly services through ICT.
Three amendment bills, including the Registeration of Business Names (Amendment) bill 2011 and the Companies (Amendment) bill 2011 are before the House for amendment.
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This project is laudable because it falls in line with the general objectives under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for accelerated development (ICT4AD) which intends to provide ICT-related services to both rural and urban dwellers.
The e-government project is being implemented by the government of Ghana, under the sponsorship of the World Bank, to assist government to generate growth and employment to influence Information and Communication Technology and public private partnership.
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It is to train 150 poor and vulnerable youth on work readiness and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) skills and then employ those youth in BPOs to digitise government records.
A statement issued in Accra on Friday said the grant was being made through the Rockefeller Foundation’s Poverty Reduction through Information and Digital Employment (PRIDE) Initiative.
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