GeGov is a Public Private Partnership between GCNet and Government of Ghana, specifically the Ministry of Communications, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Registrar-General's Department (RGD) and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), to automate Business Registration and Tax Administration. The project is supported and partly funded by the World Bank.
GCNet has been mandated to design, finance, build, operate and transfer an eGovernment System including new applications for both the RGD and the GRA.
“We should not rush them into doing things that will cost the nation...Come election day, if we don’t take time we might actually plunge the country into total chaos and confusion, if we only depended solely on [the biometric voting]” he told Joy News on Friday.
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The parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the People’s National Convention (PNC) and the Convention People’s Party (CPP), all described it as a step in the right direction, especially when the implementation of the biometric registration would eliminate multiple registration and voting as well as deepen the country’s democratic culture.
Inaugurating a GH¢60,000.00 four-unit classroom block built for the Usifia Islamic Junior High School (JHS) in Kumasi, the MP said such a move would enable the youths to contribute meaningfully to the nation’s development process.
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He said in Ghana there was no reliable and accurate information on births and deaths but since the number mobile phone users has increased, it would be possible to access how many people have given birth and how many have been lost in the course of planning by using one of the network.
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