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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001
All the 65,186 teachers in public junior high schools (JHS) are to benefit from the supply of laptops under a special programme by the government to promote teaching and electronic learning (e-learning) in basic schools.

The laptops will be equipped with special Internet modems which will allow the teachers to share ideas on subjects and teaching methods.

Read more: GH: Teachers to go hi-tech with laptops

A deputy chairman of the Electoral Commission, David Kanga has warned that transferring of voters from one polling station to another will be very difficult this year due to the introduction of the biometric register.

Even though the Commission is working around the clock to find possible ways of dealing with the issue, Mr. Kanga cautioned voters to register at polling stations in their neighbourhood.

Read more: GH: Vote Transfer Will Be Difficult This Year - Deputy EC Chair

The Minister of Education, Lee Ocran, says in order to help improve ICT education, his ministry would soon be donating laptops to all teachers across the country, to make them competitive in discharging their functions in a ICT knowledge society.

The Minister made the announcement when he spoke at the launch of the rlg Foundation on Monday, during which His Excellency Vice President John Dramani Mahama was the Guest of Honour.

Read more: GH: Govt to Distribute RLG Laptops to Teachers

The Ghana International Development Consortium (GIDC), is ready to provide a technological solution for the ongoing e-government problems in the country.

It has therefore, proposed an integrated “All in One System“ solution, which includes a modern voting technology that can address the voter verification problem in Ghana and the challenges facing the nation in the area of census data collection and analysis for effective implementation of policies and programmes.

The Consortium is made up of some of the nation’s professionals in the Diaspora with the sole aim and objective of identifying and addressing Ghana’s developmental challenges.

Read more: GIDC seeks to provide e-government technological solution for Ghana

Ghana’s Electoral Commission has projected that it will biometrically register 12 million eligible voters in 40 days, for the country’s upcoming elections scheduled for December 7, 2012, when the much debated registration exercise takes off on March 24, 2012.

Disclosing this Wednesday March 7, 2012 in Accra at a roundtable discussion organised by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), stated; “We will be doing our registration in 40 days and we do not expect to go far beyond 12 million”.

The EC Chairman said the projection is based on figures so far received from the Statistical Service of Ghana on Ghana’s last census conducted in 2010.

Read more: Ghana to register about 12 million voters biometrically in 40 days

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