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Government and the Electoral Commission have finally yielded to both domestic and international pressure and agreed to compliment the biometric voter registration with biometric voter verification at the polling station in order to enhance the integrity of the 2012 elections.

However, investigations undertaken by The New Statesman suggest that the ruling party, which has still not come to terms with biometric verification, is shifting the responsibility of funding the process to Ghana’s ‘development partners’.

Read more: GH: Biometric Verification is on

Many Ghanaian seemed never to look back since their country ushered in the constitutional rule in 1992.

The West African country has, if anything, received accolades for its political stability, peaceful transition from one political party to another and relative peace, making it an oasis of peace in a sub-region that rocked by civil wars and social disturbance.

Now many of Ghanaian have placed their hope on the biometric registration system for a free and fair national elections next year.

Read more: Ghanaians Look To Biometric Registration For Polls

The Rotary Foundation Global Grant, has established a Telehealth Project at Jirapa in the Upper West Region to provide video conferencing between medical staff to enhance patient care through professional development.

The 50,000 dollars project is a three- country Rotary Club initiative to broaden the knowledge base of medical practitioners and allied health professionals.

The project would provide interaction between healthcare providers in rural and resource poor areas where one doctor serves a population of 80,000, with their counterparts in advanced and developed countries, says D. Godfrey Bacheyie, Local Physician and Project Leader.

Read more: GH: Rotary Club unveils Telehealth Project in Jirapa

Two Commonwealth agencies, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), have entered into a partnership to explore avenues of co-operation to improve governance and empower people through enhanced use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The two agencies acknowledged that ICTs are a key tool not only in development but also to promote democracy and empower people. While Parliamentarians play a crucial role in facilitating the promotion and use of ICTs for development, through policy, legislation, and regulations, the very same ICTs open new vistas for citizens to engage in governance. Primarily a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will facilitate collaboration between the CPA and CTO to build the capacity of Parliamentarians in the adoption and use of ICTs for development and for the promotion of democracy. The MoU also paves the way for information exchange, including mutual access to the web environments of each party, sharing publications, participating in and promoting each others' conferences and holding joint events and capacity-building programmes in the future.

Read more: GH: New communications technologies to strengthen democracy