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The Electoral Commission will allow proxy voting and transfer of votes during the 2012 general election which will be conducted with the Biometric Voters' Register.

Prospective voters wishing to take advantage of the proxy and the transfer of votes from one polling station to another would, however, have to notify the EC 42 days before the polls instead of the current 21 days.

Read more: GH: Elections 2012: Electoral Commission To Allow Proxy Voting

A total of thirty thousand youth have been selected to undergo a six month intensive training in Information Communication and Technology (ICT) under the expanded ICT Module of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).

The beneficiary youth are drawn from all ten regions across the country. The training is a collaboration between NYEP and the Rlg Institute of Technology, a subsidiary of Rlg Communications.

Read more: GH: 30,000 Youth Begin Six-Month ICT Training Programme

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has promoted ICT in the most deprived communities in the country in the last three years, Mr Kofi Attoh, Chief Executive Officer of Fund said. He said through transparency and accountability, GIFEC had promoted the use of ICT to help reduce bureaucracy within the public at large and provided individuals with a minimum level of ICT knowledge.

Mr Attoh was speaking during the GIFEC Week celebration on the topic: “ICT for Sustainable Development”. The week was to show case the achievements of the Fund to the general public.

Read more: GIFEC Promotes ICT In Ghana's Most Deprived Communities

Mr. Kofi Obeng, a polling agent at the just ended exhibition of the biometric voter registration, has lauded  the elderly for exhibiting devotion to the exercise.

I think it had to do with publicity. The aged are by their radio and television sets all the time. The younger ones go off to work and may have missed the media announcements on the exercise.

Read more: GH: Senior citizens outpace the youth in the biometric voter verification exercise