Speaking at an E-Governance Conference in Accra last Tuesday on the theme "Utilising ICT for more efficient, effective and inclusive governance," Dr. Spio-Garbrah said "If governments' reports regularly on the state of projects and other expenditures on their websites, citizens will be able to know and monitor what is going on.
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This is part of the government's efforts to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband throughout the country. He said the first phase, which involved the upgrading of existing fibre optic within the southern triangle and extension of same to reach the middle part of the country, was underway and the second phase would extend the facility to the northern sector.
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He said the use of ICT could also facilitate the appraisal of various material colour schemes; investigate alternate competing products and how they were manufactured.
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Presenting the State of the Nation Address, President John Agyekum Kufuor said the ICT revolution was fundamentally changing the way the world worked and decreasing the marginal cost of production and raising productivity across industries.
The IT superhighway will serve as a convergence point for the easy access of telephone and IT connectivity in the country.