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A new Information Communication and Technology (ICT) centre, has been inaugurated at Effiduase in the New Juaben Municipality.

ICT-CentreIt is to be used by students and the public under the e-governance platform project of the Ministry of Communication.

The more than 30 computer- seater facility has other equipment such as LAN infrastructure, servers, switches, a printer and scanner as well as uninterruptible power supply.

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Our civil service has failed to deliver as many non-deserving civil servants got promotions but on the contrary deserved ones remained marginalized. Dr Ishrat Hussain, Dean and Director, Institute of Business Administration Karachi and former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan delivered a lecture on “How to ensure good governance in Pakistan?” under the distinguished lecture series, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Karachi on Thursday, February 19.

In his lecture, he emphasized on the e/government system and termed it as a major tool that could help to minimize the menace of corruption. He added that federal government should take care of all higher educational institutions; provincial governments should monitor colleges while district education boards must be set up to ensure quality of education at the primary school level.

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An e-government data centre with a capacity of 600 racks to store government and private sector data is scheduled for completion in March 2015, according to the Data Protection Commission.

The multi-million dollar centre, when completed, would integrate the nation’s information system, process, and people with data closely, and improve data exchange and information sharing effectively.

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Ghana’s quest to roll out its national digital terrestrial transmission project this year seems to be on course, with the help of a Chinese government loan facility. The agreement will help the government of Ghana meet the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) DTT deadline of June 17, 2015.

Information available to Biztechafrica in Accra indicates that the government of Ghana, through the ministry of communication, is now expected to countersign the loan agreement and submit it to parliament for ratification. Ghana’s pursuance of a digital terrestrial transmission platform is expected to cost the country about US$95million.

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