According to a source at the EC, with that provisional figure, the EC was on course to achieving a successful biometric voters registration, which ends on May 5, 2012.
The EC projected to register 13 million voters before the beginning of the compilation of the biometric voters roll.
Read more: GH: 10.5 Million Prospective Voters Registered In Biometric Exercise
Professor Oheneba-Sakyi said this at the first congregation ceremony for distance education programme at the University of Ghana’s Institute of Continuing and Distance Education in Accra.
He said greater opportunities would be opened for post-graduate E-Learning programmes via online and other technology-mediated learning for the school’s educational entrepreneurs for lifelong learning.
Read more: GH: Boost capacities of Distance Education to deliver on ICT – Prof Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi
This is being done with the launching of Ushahidi platform – Ghana Votes (ghvotes2012.com) to map incidents around the Biometric Voter Registration.
A statement issued in Accra on Thursday and copied to the Ghana News Agency said AEP is providing the leadership as part of its project “Enabling Peaceful, Transparent and Credible Elections in Ghana Using New Media Platform” funded by Strengthening Transparency Accountability and Responsiveness in Ghana (STAR-Ghana).
Read more: GH: AEP provides leadership in the use of ICT for Election 2012
Ghana has spent millions of U.S dollars on programs like National Identification program, Biometric Voters register and recently, Ghana had Population and housing census which results still remains in a Limbo .Apart from the millions of financial resources that have been spent on some of these programs without success, the magnitude of the various allegations that have been leveled against each other in the political dispensation in our country nowadays is not something to write home about. If a sustainable system is not implemented in the country, some few unscrupulous politicians and civil servants will take our dear country for ransom, thereby contributing to hopelessness of the future generation.
Mr Gilbert Akomea, Director, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department of EC, said such registrations did not follow any pattern, neither did they come from any particular part of the country or Region, but were widespread across the country.
Read more: GH: 4,000 multiple registration detected at on-going Biometric Voter Registration-EC