The eGovernment project, which is being built by Huawei Technologies (Gh) Ltd, will enable the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve the activities of the country’s public sector organisations, when completed.
Among these agencies are Ghana Post, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and Ghana Police Service (GPS).
Huawei Technologies Limited handed the ultra modern state of the art service centre to the Ministry of Communications to facilitate the delivery of Government services to citizens under the e-Government programme.
He therefore reiterated the government’s commitment to continue to promote the deployment and mainstreaming of ICT in all sectors of the economy.
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Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said the release of the P600 million will fund the implementation of the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) that seeks to integrate all public management processes to push the transparency and accountability agenda of the government.
On 9th December 2013, Huawei Technologies Ltd was called in by the Ministry of Communication Ltd to expedite work on this important component of the First Phase of the e-Government Platform Project to enable the immediate online delivery of some government services, taking advantage of the broadband infrastructure being built to reach all parts of the country.
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