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Monday, 1.07.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001
The 66th annual New Year School and Conference opened in Accra on Monday, with the focus on exploiting opportunities in e-governance to improve information access to government business and better service delivery to citizens.

It was on the theme: “Improving the Performance of the Local Government System in the era of E-Governance,” placing information communication and technology (ICT) at the centre of government dealings with citizens.

Read more: GH: 66th New Year School focus is on E-governance

Airtel Ghana has since the introduction of its Airtel Money platform been successful in making the service more attractive and acceptable to all.

The platform has been instrumental in changing the way people transact business, and it is progressively moving towards achieving its target of helping to propel Ghana towards a cashless society.

Read more: GH: Airtel Money Makes Good Use of Govt’s E-Services Portal

Two committees— the Inter-Ministerial Oversight (IMO) Committee and the Technical Committee of the e-Transform Project—all under the e-Ghana project were, yesterday, inaugurated in Accra.

The IMO committee, which has Ato Sarpong, Deputy Minister for Communication, as its chairman, has the core objective of guiding and ensuring that the e-Ghana project is well-executed.

In an address, the Minister for Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, said the Ministry of Communications (MoC) had been implementing the e-Ghana project with a US$ 97 World Bank support which was expected to be completed in December 2014.

Read more: E-Ghana Project To Be Completed in December 2014—Dr Boamah

The Ghanaian government has formed two committees, the Inter-Ministerial Oversight (IMO) Committee and the Technical Committee of the e-Transform Project, all under the aegis of the e-Ghana project. The IMO committee has the core objective of guiding and ensuring that the e-Ghana project is well-executed. Minister for Communications Edward Omane Boamah said the government had been implementing the e-Ghana project with a USD 97 million World Bank support and that the project was expected to complete in December. He said the e-Ghana project was designed to increase competitiveness in the ICT sector and increase income generation in the ICT sector.

Read more: Ghana forms committee to complete e-project

National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card holders in the Asante-Akim South District are flocking the district office in a bid to switch to the scheme’s newly introduced biometric card.

The situation is not being helped by the current arrangement under which biometric registration of first timers and replacement of expired cards has been centralized and could only be done at the district office.

Read more: GH: Mad rush for NHIS biometric ID Cards

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