When the proposed infrastructure is completed, it will connect all public institutions to a single shared communications and computing infrastructure to facilitate effective delivery of government services to citizens, businesses and others.
Objectives of the project also include the extension of the national backbone infrastructure to all districts in the country and provision of a national data centre and a secondary data centre facility for disaster recovery capability, among other objectives.
In an interview in Accra, the Director-General (D-G) of NITA, Mr William Tevie, said the agency was currently putting up 30 towers throughout the country as part of infrastructure development for the project.
Mr Tevie stated that the project was being supported by a financial assistance of $44 million from the World Bank and $30 million from the Chinese government.
He said the NITA was established by an Act of Parliament, Act 771 of 2008, to regulate Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
He said the objective, according to the Act, included regulating and ensuring the provision of quality ICT, promoting standards and ensuring high quality of service.
Information available at the agency’s website indicate that in November 2008, Parliament approved a $30 million concessionary loan facility from China for the construction of the initial phase of a nationwide e-Government infrastructure for Ghana.
It is also to ultimately connect all public institutions, such as ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to a single shared communications and computing infrastructure to facilitate effective delivery of government services to citizens, businesses and others.
The target sites are intended to be reached via several different means, including direct fibre optic connectivity, high capacity microwave links, VSAT access over the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) VSAT network and leased terrestrial circuits from local telecoms and internet service providers.
This means the network can connect not just the district assemblies, but hospitals, schools, police stations, agricultural extension service offices, and any other public offices or institutions in all towns that are within the coverage areas of the network.
It pointed out that the e-Government network infrastructure will be built upon previous investments by MoFEP in fibre optic connectivity between key MDAs in Accra, and will utilise capacity from the national Communications Backbone Company, (NCBC) which is now a part of Vodafone Ghana.
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Quelle/Source: Accra Daily Mail, 07.10.2010
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