The move is to enable members of the public who are found wanting in any situation to call for immediate assistance.
Communications Minister, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, disclosed this to graphic.cm.gh, in an interview on the sidelines of the ongoing World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly (WTSA-12) in Dubai.
He made reference to the recent Melcom disaster in Accra, which he said was a wake up call for all to ensure that the use of mobile phones become part of human endeavors.
"Recent development in Ghana must awaken everybody to accept that mobile telephony is no more a luxury," he said.
He recalled how family members communicated with their loved ones and relations and how some of the trapped victims were also able to use their mobile phones to make contacts for the necessary assistance to be extended to them.
Mr Iddrisu said this means that national discovery effort can only be facilitated by ICT.
"It is against this background that I want to assure the nation that nation that the Government remains determined to mainstream ICT in all aspects of our national life", he said.
Mr Iddrisu said the government is also on course with its e-justice, e-immigration, e-procurement platforms among other similar initiates and said all those platforms should be delivered early next year.
On Ghana's lisiting as one of the top 10 dynamic performing countries in ICT for development, he said "I am encouraged by the revelation that Ghana did well in terms of the ICT initiatives, for me this will be a booster for the government to do more".
Ghana has been listed as one of the top 10 most dynamic performing countries in ICT for-development in 2011, according to the ICT Development Index (IDI) released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in measuring the Information Society.
The IDI is a composite index combining 11 indicators into one benchmark value.
The objectives of the IDI are to monitor progress in ICT developments in both developed and developing countries and to measure the evolution of the global digital divide.
It covers 155 countries with the results presented in comparison with 2010 performance.
The IDI is divided into three sub-indices: the access sub-index, the use sub-index and the skills sub-index, each capturing different aspects and components of the ICT development process.
According to the report, Ghana improved its global ranking by 4 places and its IDI increasing from 1.81 to 2.23 (average for Africa is 1.88).
In the overall ranking, Ghana placed 117 and sixth among the sub-Saharan African countries.
The highlights of the report revealed that there were around 6 billionmobile-cellular subscriptions by the end of 2011, and the penetration of mobile-broadband is expected to grow at double-digit rates over the next few years.
This therefore requires advanced fixed-broadband infrastructure, which is unfortunately growing more slowly, by 10 percent in developed countries and 18 percent in developing countries.
An analysis of the IDI for each of the six regions highlights differences in ICT development globally and regionally.
European countries ranked vey high in the IDI, with a regional average of 6.49; followed by the Commonwealth of Independent States, 4.43; the Americas, 4.26; Asia and Pacific, 4.02; Arab States, 3.77 and Africa, 1.88.
The Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluatin of Ghana's Ministry of Communications, Mr Issah Yahya, for his part said the ministry considers this as encouraging and expects that the performance for 2012 will post more impressive results as the infrastructure developments embarked upon over the years, have begun yielding positive results.
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Quelle/Source: GhanaWeb, 24.11.2012
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