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Tuesday, 16.09.2025
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Ghana government will begin the construction of a $90-million national Information Technology (IT) superhighway today to serve as a national fibre backbone for the country’s telecommunication sector.

The IT superhighway will serve as a convergence point for the easy access of telephone and IT connectivity in the country.

Read more: Ghana Government To Construct IT Superhighway

With Ghana set to host the Can 2008 tournament, a little effort has been put in place to solve the poor internet connectivity problem which for some years now have been a headache to my internet users within the regional capitals.

The desemination of information via the internet and other ventures such as the e-commerce and e-governance is recieving less or little attention from the populace due to the bad nature of some internet service providers and companies.

Read more: Poor Internet connectivity in Ghana hampers development

The Government of Ghana has accessed a World Bank loan to enable it to implement the electronic governance (e-governance) programme aimed at bringing efficiency into all sectors and improving revenue collection for development.

Professor Mike Ocquaye, Minister of Communications, said in Accra on Tuesday that to access the World Bank loan, the Ministry had to hasten the e-governance process for parliament's consent and that a committee had been set up to fine-tune its implementation.

Read more: E-Governance to begin in Ghana

The Minister of Communications, Prof. Mike Oquaye, has stated that government was enthusiastic about adopting encouraging initiatives, which when taken into cognizance, would re-engineer many services needed in order to benefit from emerging ICTs.

He noted that government has the "political will" to ensure that institutions make significant progress.

Read more: Ghana: ICT Initiatives Would Re-Engineer Gov't Services

Another team of technical experts from the Chinese government are doing a parallel study of their own following the signing of an e-government memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Chinese technology company, Huawei Technologies Limited.

Dr. Ham Mulira, the minister for communication and ICT said that when the two teams are done with their independent studies, they will come together to draw up a map that will show the government where the optic-fibre cable will pass.

Read more: Uganda: Government Has Commissioned Feasibility Study for a Fiber-Optic Backbone

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