The nationwide exercise was piloted in some selected districts to enable the EC establish challenges that may arise during the major one in March.
The EC’s Public Relations Officer, Christian Owusu Parry, said the identified challenges will be addressed ahead of the major registration exercise next month.
The beneficiary agencies included the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional integration, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Food and Drugs Board, Births and Death Registry, National Health Insurance Scheme, National Communication Authority, National Information Technology Agency, Passport Office, Minerals Commission and Registrar Generals Department.
Mr William Tevie, Director General of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) announced this at the stakeholder consultative meeting on the implementation of the e-payment systems in Accra on Tuesday.
She said the training was in connection with the Vice President John Dramani Mahama's initiative to support persons with disabilities to have knowledge in ICT since that was what was driving the world at present.
Ms Frimpong was speaking at a durbar organized to interact with persons with disabilities to know their problems and find out how best they can be helped.
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The four-day operation is intended to guide the EC to identify shortcomings and make amends before the actual registration which is scheduled to take off towards the end of March.
The exercise, which ends tomorrow, is being carried out in two centres of each of the 10 regions of the country.
The exercise will be conducted in one registration centre in an urban area and another in a rural area, says Eric Mensah-Bonsu, the Deputy Eastern Regional Director of the EC.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in this capital of eastern Region Monday, he said that for the urban area, the Nursing Training School Registration Centre in the New Juaben Municipality has been chosen, whilst the Akyem Abenase Presby Primary School Registration Centre in the Akyemmansa District had been selected for the rural area.
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