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The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) has introduced a project dubbed Communication Information Centres (CIC) project as part of efforts by the government to bring to the door step of every Ghanaian Information Communication Technology (ICT).

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.

Read more: GH: A New ICT Project For GIFEC Launched

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Ghana’s e-government project sites are now been upgraded to long-term evolution (LTE), a 4th generation standard for high-speed data, a government official has said.

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.”

Read more: GH: e-government project upgrades to LTE platform

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Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has called for the inclusion of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into the training programmes of the vocational and technical institutions.

He noted that ICT skills would be an advantage to the trainees given the fact that contemporary vocational and technical education had become more knowledge-based.

They would become better equipped to favourably compete on the job market, he said in a speech read for him at the inauguration of a computer laboratory built at the Ramseyer Vocational Technical Institute (RVTI) at Kyirapatre in Kumasi.

Read more: GH: An aggressive approach is needed in the promotion of ICT

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Ghana’s e-government project sites are now been upgraded to long-term evolution (LTE), a 4th generation standard for high-speed data, a government official has said.

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.”

Read more: Ghana e-government project upgrades to LTE platform

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is being used to educate pregnant women on their health throughout their gestation period to help reduce maternal mortality in the Northern Region.

It is being carried out by Savana Signatures (Savsign), a non-governmental Organisation (NGO), operating in the region.

Mr Stephen Agbenyo, Executive Director of Savsign, who announced these, said the NGO would use multi-media technology, voice and SMS messages to educate pregnant women on daily basis on what they were expected to do, their diets and general information to inform their health decisions.

Read more: GH: ICT help reduce maternal mortality in the Northern Region

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