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ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States

  • ECOWAS to pilot biometric identity card in 2016

    ECOWAS citizens would, from 2016, be issued with the regional bloc’s Biometric Identification Card to ease movement and aid security in the sub-region.

    This follows a recommendation made by the ECOWAS Council of Ministers at the end of its 73rd Meeting in Abuja at the weekend, seeking the issuance of the biometric cards on a pilot basis in 2016.

  • AE: How Abu Dhabi is aiming to accelerate digital economy capabilities

    Abu Dhabi links up with Amazon Web Services for plan to launch of cloud technology region in the first half of 2022

    An Amazon Web Services region is being created in Abu Dhabi next year as part of the emirate's efforts to attract investments that build technology capabilities.

    Abu Dhabi Investment Office said Abu Dhabi’s digital economy will be boosted through the launch of the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region in the first half of 2022 which aims to accelerate cloud adoption and empower organisations to innovate faster.

  • Ecowas Commission Steers Towards Common E-Health Program

    The ECOWAS Commission has kicked-off a plan to develop an institutional framework that will drive the ECOWAS health care policy towards the establishment of a robust ICT-based Health Information System for the region.

    The system will drive the implementation of programmes for the sector at the regional level, the Director of the ECOWAS Community Computer Centre, Dr Monisoye Afolabi explained during a three-day meeting which ended in Ouagadougou on Friday 13th August, 2010.

  • ECOWAS ID Card Takes Effect 2016

    In the march to regional integration, through unfettered movement of citizens, the biometric identity card of the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to go into force in 2016.

    A communiqué after a three-day 73rd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers, which ended in Abuja at the weekend, said the document would replace the Travel Certificate currently in use.

  • ECOWAS Ministers of Telecommunication-ICT meet in Banjul

    Ministers in charge of Telecommunication/Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) in ECOWAS Member States are to meet in Banjul, The Gambia, on Friday, to discuss how to improve the sector and make the region more competitive in the global ICT market.

    In a press statement, received here Sunday by PANA, ECOWAS said the 12th ministerial meeting would be preceded by that of experts, themed “Bridging the regional ICT divide”, which will consider a series of measures , notably the proposed termination of taxes on incoming telecommunication calls to ECOWAS Member States.

  • ECOWAS To Introduce Biometric Identity Cards

    As part of efforts to eliminate barriers of free movement of persons and goods across the sub-region, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS said it would introduce biometric identity cards.

    This was disclosed by the ECOWAS Commissioner of Trade, Customs, Free Movement, Industry and Mines, Mr Ahmed Hamid, in Abuja at the opening of a two-day meeting on the review of the Protocols on Free Movement, yesterday.

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