The offices would serve the needs of persons in those regions wanting to apply for biometric passports, bringing to an end the era where, would-be applicants had to come all the way to the national capital, Accra, to have their applications processed.
The Minister of Foreign, Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni, who was personally present at the Kumasi inauguration said, given the enormous interest shown by the Ghanaian public since the new system was introduced, they were compelled to speed up the decentralization of the system.
He mentioned, for instance, the use of e-forms which will enhance businesses as Ghanaians would have the opportunity to easily apply for passports, driver’s licenses, undertake their births and death registration and company registration, among many others, via the internet.
The Communications Minister said this to the Daily Graphic in response to how the ministry was going to help in making the year an “Action Year,” as declared by the President.
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The statement said these committees would be the first point of call for all breaches of their respective websites. NITA, an agency under the Ministry of Communications, responsible for all ICT implementations, standards and quality of service, said the directive made on November 30 at a meeting with representatives from selected MDAs to discuss the responsibilities of the committees, was part of the implementation of its e-government initiative. "While this is important, agencies have been cautioned against inappropriate acts on their websites such as copyright breaches, unauthorised use of images and personal information exposure." It said the website review committees were expected to ensure that these issues were prevented with accurate and up-to-date content before approving them for publication. NITA asked MDAs to ensure that the design, structure and content of their websites were based on stakeholder/citizen research while their web services were easy to find and use.
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This was to equip them with requisite skills to effectively utilise electronic systems being deployed under the e-Governance Project.
So far about 842 officials from the two institutions have been trained in Basic, Intermediate and Advance IT skills under the project.
The projects, provided under the National School Connectivity Project cost $45,000 for each college. They were funded by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) and are equipped with computers, a projector, an Uninterrupted Power System (UPS), printers, scanners and connected to the Internet.
The facilities are aimed at making all teacher-trainees ICT proficient to support ICT education which is now an examinable subject in all basic schools.
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