To that end, the commission has called on the organizations that have the capacity to provide equipment for biometric registration to avail themselves of the opportunity.
This is in the line with the EC’s arrangement to replace the existing voters register that was compiled in 2004.
Weiterlesen: GH: Electoral Commission Sets In Motion Plans To Go Biometric In 2012
The personnel unanimously and vehemently kicked against the system.
As part of efforts to get as many people to use the biometric e-zwich cards which can be used to perform various banking and retail functions, the government has ordered that henceforth all national service personnel should be enrolled onto the e-zwich system.
The program which is aimed at meeting a full national migration by December 2014 is informed by the International Telecoms Union’s deadline date of June 2015 for worldwide migration onto digital services, to improve both sound and picture quality and allow for some spectrum dividends such as the renewal and granting of licenses for more digital radio and television stations.
Weiterlesen: Ghana’s digital migration and E-governance makes progress
To be scrapped as used in the previous paragraph means that Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) will not use the 2008 voters register. An advert by the EC currently running in the media states in part that the EC “intends to use biometric technology to replace the existing Voters Register that was compiled in 2004 (emphasis ours).
Weiterlesen: GH: Biometric Voters Register For 2012: No More Rigging Of Elections
The exercise, which began in November, last year, covered 25 schools in Central, Brong Ahafo and Upper West Regions.
Speaking to journalists in Accra on Wednesday, GhIPSS General Manager in-charge of Project and Business Development, Archie Hesse said a second phase of the programme was underway and would continue till April.
Weiterlesen: GH: Nationwide e-zwich enrolment, 15,000 SHS students so far registered