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The Ministry of Communication was created out of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. [2] Its mission is based on the following principles: [1] To promote rapid development and deployment of a national ICT infrastructure in Ghana. To strengthen the institutional and regulatory model for managing the ICT sub-sector.
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) was established as an implementing agency of the Ministry of Communications, in January 2004, with the formulation of the comprehensive ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy, which seeks to engineer an ICT-led socio-economic development process with the potential to transform Ghana into a middle income, information-rich ...
Ghana became the next country to have internet in the Sub Sahara. Internet services began in Ghana in 1995. [2] This was made possible through the collaborations between Network Computer Systems (NCS), Pipex International, The Ministry of Transport and Communication of Ghana, Ghana Telecom, and British Telecom. [3]
Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to connect to the Internet. [5] With an average household download speed of 5.8 Mbit/s Ghana had the third fastest speed on the African continent and the 110th fastest out of 188 countries worldwide in February 2014. [10] In 2009 the number of Internet users stood at 1.3 million, 93rd in the world. [1]
This is a listing of the ministers who are currently serving in the New Patriotic Party government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Ghana originally formed on 7 January 2017 following the winning of the December 2016 general election when Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party became president.
National Information Technology Agency. Its mandate includes identifying, promoting and developing innovative technologies, standards, guidelines and practices among government agencies and local governments, as well as ensuring the sustainable growth of ICT via research & development planning and technology acquisition strategies to facilitate Ghana's prospect of becoming a technology-driven ...
Ministry of Justice (Ghana) Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (Ghana) Ministry of Railway Development (Ghana) Ministry of Regional Reorganization and Development; Ministry of Trade and Industry (Ghana) Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs; Ministry of Works and Housing (Ghana) Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate
The National Communications Authority (NCA) was established by an Act of Parliament, Act 524 in December 1996, which has been repealed and replaced by the National Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Act 769). The Authority is the statutory body mandated to licence and to regulate electronic communications activities and services in the country.