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Officials of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) last Wednesday had a tough time convincing National Service Personnel (NSP) in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis to enroll onto the e-zwich platform.

The personnel unanimously and vehemently kicked against the system.

As part of efforts to get as many people to use the biometric e-zwich cards which can be used to perform various banking and retail functions, the government has ordered that henceforth all national service personnel should be enrolled onto the e-zwich system.

Read more: GH: Service Personnel Reject E-Zwich

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It looks like the era of double and multiple voting by Ghanaians are over. The voters register used for the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary elections is to be scrapped.

To be scrapped as used in the previous paragraph means that Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) will not use the 2008 voters register. An advert by the EC currently running in the media states in part that the EC “intends to use biometric technology to replace the existing Voters Register that was compiled in 2004 (emphasis ours).

Read more: GH: Biometric Voters Register For 2012: No More Rigging Of Elections

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About 15,000 Senior High School (SHS) students have been enrolled onto the e-zwich platform by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) as part of efforts to get more people to use the biometric card.

The exercise, which began in November, last year, covered 25 schools in Central, Brong Ahafo and Upper West Regions.

Speaking to journalists in Accra on Wednesday, GhIPSS General Manager in-charge of Project and Business Development, Archie Hesse said a second phase of the programme was underway and would continue till April.

Read more: GH: Nationwide e-zwich enrolment, 15,000 SHS students so far registered

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Ghana’s Communications Ministry has been embarking on a program called the Digital Migration Process to change radio and television broadcasting services in the country from analogue to digital.

The program which is aimed at meeting a full national migration by December 2014 is informed by the International Telecoms Union’s deadline date of June 2015 for worldwide migration onto digital services, to improve both sound and picture quality and allow for some spectrum dividends such as the renewal and granting of licenses for more digital radio and television stations.

Read more: Ghana’s digital migration and E-governance makes progress

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A biometric passport application centre has been inaugurated in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mr Chris Kpodo.

The opening of the centre means residents of the region who want to acquire biometric passports do not need to travel to Accra to have their documents processed.

The Brong Ahafo Region is one of the six pilot regions in the country to benefit from the biometric passport application centre project, which is in line with the government’s e-governance policy to decentralise biometric passport application.

Read more: GH: Sunyani Gets Biometric Passport Application Centre

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