IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

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.

The project will also provide e-government applications to improve the efficiency of government service delivery. Boamah said one of the major accomplishments of the project was the introduction of key legislations to improve the enabling environment for electronic applications. He said the move will increase the competitiveness of Ghana's e-economy in line with global best practice, and 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 will also help the Judicial Service to reduce the period of time spent on a case before the delivery of judgement.

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Quelle/Source: Telecompaper, 01.12.2014

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