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A six member delegation from The Gambia has paid a visit to the Ghana National Data Centre as part of a five day tour to understudy Ghana’s e-government project in Accra.

The e-government project is being implemented by the government of Ghana, under the sponsorship of the World Bank, to assist government to generate growth and employment to influence Information and Communication Technology and public private partnership.

Read more: Gambian delegation visits Ghana national data centre

The Government in its 2010/11 budget has stated that it is going to provide commercial internet service in post offices for the public throughout the country.

This project is laudable because it falls in line with the general objectives under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for accelerated development (ICT4AD) which intends to provide ICT-related services to both rural and urban dwellers.

Read more: GH: Internet For Our Post Offices

The Acting Director of Public Affairs, Electoral Commission (EC), Christian Owusu Parry, has disclosed that the commission will start the biometric voter registration in March, 2012.

The introduction of the biometric registration in 2012 elections, according to the commission, was to help check double registration and eliminate ghost names in the voters’ register.

The EC would acquire the biometric voter equipment by February 2012, Parry Owusu said.

Read more: GH: Electoral Commission begins biometric registration

The ITES Secretariat of the Ministry of Communication has received an $882,000 grant for the implementation of the ITES/BPO Work Readiness Programme.

It is to train 150 poor and vulnerable youth on work readiness and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) skills and then employ those youth in BPOs to digitise government records.

A statement issued in Accra on Friday said the grant was being made through the Rockefeller Foundation’s Poverty Reduction through Information and Digital Employment (PRIDE) Initiative.

Read more: GH: ITES receives grant to train 150 poor youth

Dr. Frank Nyonator, the acting Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has said the provision of quality healthcare depends on the availability and efficient application of information at the appropriate time.

“Our ability to provide quality healthcare service delivery depends on quality information available at the right time in the right place to the right person”, he said.

Dr. Nyonator was speaking at the opening of the 10th annual general conference of the Medical Superintendents’ Group (MSG) Ghana, under the theme: “Quality hospital information management system; a tool for improved health care delivery” on Wednesday in Sunyani.

Read more: GH: Doctors says health care delivery depends on information

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