LAGOS: To better deliver improved services to its citizens in Ghana, eleven Government Departments and Agencies will commence the e-government project, the government said on Wednesday. The agencies who are beneficiaries included Food and Drugs Board, National Communication Authority, Births and Death Registry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional integration, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Passport Office, National Health Insurance Scheme, National Information Technology Agency, Minerals Commission and Registrar Generals Department. The Director General of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Mr William Tevie, disclosed this at the stakeholder consultative meeting on the implementation of the e-payment systems in Accra on Tuesday.He stated that the meeting was set up to tackle issues concerning the online payment for government e-service that are being deployed in the varying stages of the implementation process.The e-government project ensures the presence of important and relevant government information on the web he noted. The e-services being developed are a Content Management System for managing hosted content on the government portal, a payment gateway to allow portal applications to receive payments from customers, e-forms and a document management application.The project is expected to provide a free flow of information between department and agencies, service providers and the public. He also stated that the agency NITA played a central role in the Government e-service such as the geGov currently being used by the Registrar Generals Department and the Ghana Revenue Authority, which was a Public Private Partnership.“An e-justice system, e-immigration, e-parliament, e-passport and e-Government Procurement system are envisaged,” he added. Tevie urged the participants to use the meeting to deliberate and come out with recommendations that would help establish an effective online payment system that would be of benefit to the economy. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/tEvpZ Tags: E-Government, Ghana, IT, Telecom Section: Tech, West Africa
