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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001
Ghana's public sector, from pre-Independence days to date, has lacked the capacity, the structures, skills and the right incentives to be responsive to the country"s development needs. The delivery of better, modern public services has been on the wish list of several governments yet success has also not made that leap from the wish list to achievement.

Thus, in 2003, J H Mensah, as Senior Minister and in charge of public sector reform, remarked, "After five years of reform and experimentation … the public services have not enhanced their ability to deliver services.

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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Commonwealth Telecom Organisation (CTO), Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has said government expenditures in Africa can be electronically monitored to improve good governance, transparency and accountability on the continent.

Speaking at an E-Governance Conference in Accra last Tuesday on the theme "Utilising ICT for more efficient, effective and inclusive governance," Dr. Spio-Garbrah said "If governments' reports regularly on the state of projects and other expenditures on their websites, citizens will be able to know and monitor what is going on.

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Government on Thursday stated it would sustain its emphasis on the potential of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a tool to transforming the national economy.

Presenting the State of the Nation Address, President John Agyekum Kufuor said the ICT revolution was fundamentally changing the way the world worked and decreasing the marginal cost of production and raising productivity across industries.

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Professor Mike Oquaye, the Minister for Communications, has embarked on a project to extend fibre optic facility to all parts of the country.

This is part of the government's efforts to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband throughout the country. He said the first phase, which involved the upgrading of existing fibre optic within the southern triangle and extension of same to reach the middle part of the country, was underway and the second phase would extend the facility to the northern sector.

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Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama has suggested the need for producers of local smocks to use Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) innovations to enhance their product design to increase productivity.

He said the use of ICT could also facilitate the appraisal of various material colour schemes; investigate alternate competing products and how they were manufactured.

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