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Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, on Thursday said government had targeted 2016 for the implementation of biometric voting system in Ghana. "Government is ready to ensure that e-voting becomes a reality in 2016 but if things go well we may even start with it in 2012," he told a meeting of ICT and e-governance experts in Accra.

The minister said this when he opened the maiden two-day General Meeting of the Africa E-Governance Academy (AEA). The academy, jointly established by the Open Society Institute of West Africa (OSIWA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was designed to develop and transfer knowledge and expertise concerning e-governance in West African countries as well as in Mauritania and Chad.

Weiterlesen: Ghana: Biometric voting system by 2016

I had the misfortune of visiting the department of immigration to have my work permit renewed a while ago. I was pretty amazed how the routine tasks in the process took the better part of seven days. We dropped off the passport and the standard processing time for a work permit lasted seven full business days, not to mention the almost one hour waiting to get the invoice and travel time to the bank in a different location to pay. Add the return trip with evidence of payment, back to the immigration office to get your interim work permit issued.

I know my experience is trivial when compared to the pain citizens in some other countries face. Hernando De Soto's phenomenal work titled "Mystery of Capital" states procedures to formalize a legally obtained home in Peru consist of five stages!

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Ghana’s enthusiastic efforts to consolidate democracy are growing day by day as the government has hinted that plans are at foot for Ghanaians to vote biometrically in the 2016 general elections.

To this end, the government together with other agencies will introduce a Biometric Voters’ Register soon to register all Ghanaians who are legitimate to cast their votes in the country.

Weiterlesen: Ghanaians to vote biometrically in 2016 elections

The Vice President of the Ghana Telecom University, Dr. Robert Awuah-Baffour has bemoaned the current state of the country's technological development, stating that the country's sense for the future in terms of her technological advancement was bleak.

He indicated that this century was a technology driven one and Ghana at her level of development cannot afford to lag behind in her technological development.

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