The ICT centre has been equipped with 18 computers which were donated by the Ejisu/Boston College (USA) Computer Literacy Project, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based at Ejisu, to boost computer education at the school which also.
The project will deploy portal infrastructure to provide a platform for content management, document management, workflow and e-Forms, service integration and information and application security for government agencies.
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The project, which is being sponsored by telecommunication service operators, has three components aimed at building the capacity of people to manage the centres properly, equip the facilities with computers, internet service equipment and also monitor and evaluate the project.
This is contained in the 176-page “written address of counsel for petitioners”, where they explained that on Election Day, the election official needs to be sure that the person arriving at the polling station, apart from the mere production of the required ID card, is the same person whose biometric details are captured on the biometric voters register.
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The project sites are currently running on Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) which is providing about 30 to 40 megabit-per-second data rates.
Briefing the press July 30, 2013 in Accra, Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Dr Omane Boamah said “presently, the Ghana e-government platform project is upgrading existing WIMAX sites to LTE.”
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