Most African countries have realized the importance of private investment and are experimenting with private sector partnerships for the construction, maintenance, and/or operation of capital intensive projects. Where they have succeeded, as with Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership (PPP), results benefit the entire society.
In April 2010, the Government of Ghana signed a public-private partnership (PPP) contract to reengineer business registration processes, deploy state-of-the-art application software and hardware, and employ best-in-class solutions for the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Registrar General’s Office. This was part of a broader program to achieve greater efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness in the delivery of selected government services using information and communications technology (ICT).
Read more: Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership and the value of long-term strategies
Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership and the value of long-term strategies
Most African countries have realized the importance of private investment and are experimenting with private sector partnerships for the construction, maintenance, and/or operation of capital intensive projects. Where they have succeeded, as with Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership (PPP), results benefit the entire society.
Read more: Ghana’s e-government PPP initiative and its benefits
An International Danish technology company, BlueTown, is set to introduce Internet connectivity into Ghana’s rural communities by July 2016, Footprint to Africa reports.
BlueTown establishes connectivity in areas where there is no Internet coverage or where 3G is too expensive to roll-out, and provides Wi-Fi connection at a very long range of 0.5-1km radius via a Microwave Link.
Read more: GH: BlueTown To Introduce Cheap Internet Connnectivity For Rural Communities
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) needs to be strengthened and be made to focused on demand driven initiatives in order to provide products to meet local needs.
Dr Kwadwo Ameyaw Korsah, Head of the Department of Adult Health, School of Nursing, University of Ghana said institutions such as AITI-KACE, the departments of Computer Sciences of the nation’s universities are challenged to produce the needed ICT professionals for the country.
Read more: GH: Kofi Annan Centre for ICT should be strengthened
A new biometric registration centre of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) for the Ghana Police Service has been inaugurated.
The centre would provide an avenue for serving and retired police personnel, as well as members of the public, to register or renew their membership cards while they seek for medical care at the hospital.
Read more: GH: NHIA inaugurates biometric registration centre