Mr. Kwami Ahiabene, Executive Director of Penplusbytes has admonished Ghanaians especially the youth to take advantage of the sprawling opportunities of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to deepen good governance and parliamentary democracy in Ghana.
Penplusbytes is a non-governmental organisation that seeks to promote citizen participation in democracy through the use of ICT He said exchange of communication was no longer a barrier and therefore people could use ICT to constantly communicate with their Members of Parliament (MPs), Ministers and other government appointees, and make their concerns known while demanding accountability from them.
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Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, the Minister of Trade and Industry, has advocated the establishment of a trade portal for the African continent.
He said the portal would help in trade facilitation and improvement in bilateral trade relations.
Dr Spio-Garbrah was speaking at the Swiss-Ghanaian Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s Breakfast meeting on the theme: “Innovations in trade facilitation and e-government” in Accra.
Dr Edward Omane Baomah, Minister of Communications has cautioned Ghanaian youth against cyber related crimes and instead use the internet for career and academic advancement that would inure to national development.
He said government was establishing a computer emergency response unit to deal with cyber insecurity, as it (government) would not allow its investments in the sector to be misapplied.
Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is alleging that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has access to the Electoral Commission’s database.
According to him, the process used by the NDC in the just ended biometric registration exercise shows that the party has been given access to the voters’ register data base.
Mr Akufo-Addo said this in an interview on Tamale-based radio station, Radio Justice during his two-day ‘Rise and Build Tour’ of the Northern Region.
The Second Lady, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur has called for the establishment of regional networks of digital libraries in Africa to accelerate the pace of research on the continent.
She said without any conscious effort to digitize the libraries and archives it would be difficult for the continent to harness its potential for accelerated development.
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