Mr. William Tevie, Director General ofthe National Information Technology Agency (NITA), disclosed this to about 500 participants drawn from various MMDAs at a conferenceyesterday at the Alisa Hotel here in the capital city of Accra. “It is in this light that NITA has invited you here to show you what services are available and to discuss the proposed pricing for these services before billing begins from 1st April, 2012,” said Tevie.
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This is an effort to improve on accountability, transparency and bring governance closer to the grassroots.
New Media is an interactive form of communication, which enable the citizenry and other stakeholders connect to reliable sources to find information relevant to the development of their localities.
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About 42,000 temporary personnel have been trained to operate the 7,000 digital registration kits for the exercise with the capacity to register between 100 and 150 persons per day.
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The biometric registration process which was scheduled to commence at seven o’clock, commenced at nine thirty at most registration centers in the Weija constituency in Accra.
Some of the centers in the constituency were Rect Academy, Holy of Christ church in the Kwashiebu electoral area, Toll- Booth registration, Gedan Tuba electoral area, Langma registration center and D/A Primary Dampase electoral area, were slowed down because scanning machines were not running at a fast pace.
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The supervisory body, Electoral Commission of Ghana, has given the assurance that they are poised to ensure a successful exercise that is aimed at curtailing electoral fraud such as double registration and voting among others.
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