The statement said these committees would be the first point of call for all breaches of their respective websites. NITA, an agency under the Ministry of Communications, responsible for all ICT implementations, standards and quality of service, said the directive made on November 30 at a meeting with representatives from selected MDAs to discuss the responsibilities of the committees, was part of the implementation of its e-government initiative. "While this is important, agencies have been cautioned against inappropriate acts on their websites such as copyright breaches, unauthorised use of images and personal information exposure." It said the website review committees were expected to ensure that these issues were prevented with accurate and up-to-date content before approving them for publication. NITA asked MDAs to ensure that the design, structure and content of their websites were based on stakeholder/citizen research while their web services were easy to find and use.
Read more: Ghana: Ministries, Departments and Agencies asked to operate functional websites
The projects, provided under the National School Connectivity Project cost $45,000 for each college. They were funded by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) and are equipped with computers, a projector, an Uninterrupted Power System (UPS), printers, scanners and connected to the Internet.
The facilities are aimed at making all teacher-trainees ICT proficient to support ICT education which is now an examinable subject in all basic schools.
Read more: Ghana: National School ICT Connectivity Project Inaugurated
Communications Minister Haruna Iddrissu who disclosed this to Joy News said the move was to help the MPs research into the issues that come up for debate in Parliament.
He said the laptops will also help deal with the volumes of papers MPs carry because of the unavailability of offices.
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He said the current situation where the ccTLD was being managed by a private company was not good enough to ensure efficiency in domain name registration in the country.
Mr Akumiah told the Ghana News Agency in an interview after presenting a paper at a forum organised by the Ghana chapter of Internet Society (ISOC) in Accra that ccTLD was very sensitive and represented a national resource, which must be protected.
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When the proposed infrastructure is completed, it will connect all public institutions to a single shared communications and computing infrastructure to facilitate effective delivery of government services to citizens, businesses and others.
Read more: Ghana: Ministries, Departments And Agencies To Operate On Single IT Platform