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Thursday, 4.12.2025
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Government on Thursday stated it would sustain its emphasis on the potential of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a tool to transforming the national economy.

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.

Read more: Ghana: Gov’t. will sustain ICT for development

Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama has suggested the need for producers of local smocks to use Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) innovations to enhance their product design to increase productivity.

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.

Read more: Ghana: ICT in the Service of the "Northern Smock"

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

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

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

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