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.
Read more: GH: Birim North District to train disabled in ICT
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.
Read more: Ghana's Electoral Commission To Conduct Pilot Biometric Registration
According to the EC, it has established a data recovery centre outside its head office at an unknown location to serve as a back-up to its central database.
The recovery centre will contain the same data as the central database at the EC’s head office in Accra.
Read more: Ghana’s Electoral Commission builds ‘secret’ biometric data recovery centre
Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, EC Chairman who spelt out the criteria in Accra said a prospective voter is required to provide their exact date of birth, their current residential address as well as their hometown address.
Read more: GH: Qualification Criteria For Biometric Voter Registration Out
Elections 2012 is estimated to cost the nation 243, 528, 305.00 Ghana Cedis, Electoral Commission (EC) Electoral Budget available to the Ghana News Agency at the weekend revealed.
The budget estimates that the Biometric Voter Registration Exercise will cost 148,942,378.00 Ghana cedis; the exhibition of the Provisional Register 7,477,966.00 Ghana cedis and the Presidential and Parliamentary elections 87,107,961.00 Ghana cedis.
Read more: Ghana 2012 Elections to cost 243, million Ghana Cedis