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.
He said the e-Ghana project was essentially designed to improve the enabling environment, increase competitiveness in the ICT sector and increase income generation in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) sector.
In addition, he said, the project was also to provide e-government applications to improve the efficiency of government service delivery.
Dr Boamah said one of the major accomplishments of the project was the introduction of key legislations to improve the enabling environment for electronic applications.
This, according to him, would increase the competitiveness of Ghana’s e-economy in line with global best practice as well as protect and secure investment in the ICT sector.
He disclosed that legislation and regulatory instruments, including the Data Protection Commission Act and the Electronic Transaction Act, had been developed.
According to the Minister, the e-Ghana project would also go a long way to help the Judicial Service to reduce the period of time spent on a case before the delivery of judgement.
Furthermore, he said, under the e-Education project, there would be a teacher’s educational portal which would help teachers to interact with other teachers in other parts of the country, to share intellectual ideas on how to practice effective teaching via the internet.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Edem Agblevor & Naa Palm
Quelle/Source: Ghana, 25.11.2014
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