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Mr Emmanuel Onyeje, General Manager of Microsoft Anglophone West Africa, has noted that Microsoft is enhancing its partnership with National Information Technology Agency (NITA) to improve upon information flow.

This, he said would lead to the creation of a national data centre for public administration.

The project, which commenced in 2006, has so far seen the completion of the first of three phases that is the network framework on which applications will be built and Microsoft’s presence is an added plus to the commencement of the second phase, which will take off later this year.

Read more: GH: Microsoft supports NITA to implement e-governance project

Mrs Matilda Amissah Arthur, wife of the Vice President, on Saturday said the free computer scheme for schools was to assist in training well-rounded students who would be able to run the emerging knowledge-based economy of the country.

She was speaking at the Sixth Congregation of the Holy Child College of Education at Takoradi.

Some 185 students who completed courses in Basic Education and Early Childhood Education in 2012 were presented with diplomas at the congregation.

Read more: ICT needed in Ghana’s knowledge economy – Second Lady

Teachers have been urged to shun the old techniques of teaching and adopt the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT)methods for teaching.

Mr Mosses Anibaba, Country Director of the British Council, made the call at the inauguration of the “Nana Kofi Adjei Imbeah e-learning Centre” at the Anaji M/A School Takoradi.

The ICT centre is equipped with 18 computers and was sponsored by the British Council and Microsoft in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES).

Read more: GH: Teachers urged to adopt new methods of teaching

It’s been barely 10 days since the first election with biometric verification came to an end. So far, we have enjoyed peace though there have been a few issues relating to the acceptance of the results by the minority party. This article, however, is not to debate on the results but to take a technological peep into the whole electoral process which has widely come to be known as the first biometric election in the world. Some say otherwise, though.

A few weeks to the Ghana biometric elections, I had the rarest privilege of working at the warehouse where the biometric devices were being assembled. Please don’t ask me how. It was a great experience, getting to work on the devices, sieving the malfunctioning ones, etc. Honestly, I was surprised to hear in the media that some of the devices had stopped working. They felt robust at the warehouse. But as you may already know, machines are machines.

Read more: A technological peep into Ghana’s biometric elections