He spoke as the Twelfth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, entering its penultimate day in Accra, Ghana, held a round table on "Harnessing knowledge and technology for development", in which they weighed strategies to put the current information and communications technology boom at the service of poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
As a continent, our future and survival depends upon our willingness to harness the new information and communication technologies. A nation unable to join this new economic order, unable to harness the power of ICT, is effectively locked out of the new global economy, and forced to remain a marginal player on the world economic stage.
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This means that registration of businesses in Ghana would be fast-tracked and streamlined within a maximum of five days, compared with the 14 days stipulated by the World Bank.
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The first phase, which is dubbed the Southern Loop with an extension to Tamale, is currently on trial.
The Deputy Minister of Communication, Mr Frederick Opare-Ansah, who made this known in Accra, said the completion of the first phase would pave the way for ICT programmes to be undertaken nationwide and thereby bridge the digital divide between the rural and urban areas.
The Public Sector Reforms Minister, Mr Samuel Owusu-Agyei, , under whose ministry the e-governance is being spearheaded, has observed that, a proposal to set up a bilateral working group to work on the blue print for the pilot phase had been agreed upon by both countries.
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