Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Communications Minister, who announced this, said, the focus of the project will be to provide a shared and secured interoperability of government IT architecture to ensure that, IT platforms is more effectively unified, managed and aligned to provide better support for Government applications.
He said, the Ministry in its bid to protect vital and confidential Government and public sector information is constructing a national data centre to which the national portal will be linked on completion.
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Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Communications Minister, who announced this, said the focus of the project would be to provide a shared and secured interoperability of government IT architecture to ensure that IT platforms were more effectively unified, managed and aligned to provide better support for government applications.
He said the Ministry in its bid to protect vital and confidential government and public sector information was constructing a national data centre to which the national portal would be linked on completion.
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A US$30m data center and Wide Area Network (WAN) in Ghana, being built for the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), is almost complete.
Once finished it will link all government agencies, including schools, hospitals, immigration and its police force, together on the one platform.
A report by the Ghana Business Review said both are expected to launch in July this year.
The Western Regional Licensing Officer of the DVLA, Mr Godson Wemegah, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Takoradi on Tuesday.
The Regional Licensing Officer said the biometric license is intended to check unscrupulous people from selling fake licenses to unsuspecting drivers as well as standardizing the registration of drivers.
It said the WACS cable, which was expected to go commercial in early 2012, had 15 terminal stations along route and was the first ultra high capacity submarine cable system deploying next generation technology to connect Ghana (West Africa) to Europe northward and southbound connecting along the continental coast terminating in South Africa.
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