The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation (MoCD), Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has affirmed Ghana’s full dedication to the strategic plans of the Africa Telecommunications Union (ATU) which had invited the Member States to successfully take part in the Union’s programmes to improve Africa’s voice in the subject of info and communication expertise.
It was subsequently in opposition to this background that Ghana hosted the Africa preparatory conferences for the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly in 2020 (WTSA-20) and attended Africa Telecommunications Union (ATU) preparatory conferences for WTDC-21 in addition to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation’s (ITSO) General Assembly of Parties in 2022.
She additional added that, the nation sponsored not less than three consultants to take part in ITU Study Groups in all three sectors in addition to ATU Work Groups.
The Hon. Minister delivered this assertion when she led the Ghanaian delegation to attend the 2022 Africa Telecommunication Union Conference of Plenipotentiaries (CLP-22), at Algiers in Algeria, from twenty fifth to twenty sixth July, 2022.
The four-year cycle convention sought to deliver collectively ATU Member States to deliberate and solicit for concepts on methods to help the Union to enhance on its strategic positioning of facilitating the affect of Africa in world communications and ICT issues.
Stating the nation’s readiness for collaborations at convention, she reiterated that, Ghana remained out there to host and help ATU actions and occasions over the subsequent 4 years, “Indeed, we invite Member States for internships, benchmarking visits and capacity building on our ITU collaborated programmes on cybersecurity, quality of service, conformance and interoperability assessment, spectrum management and monitoring, digital literacy skills development, innovation incubation, and data market, among many others”.
According to her, the authorities of Ghana, underneath the ready management of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Co-Chair of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Group, was pursuing the Digital Ghana Agenda for a large transformation of Ghana’s financial system by way of expertise and broadband improvement.
Additionally, the Minister said that Ghana was at present specializing in enhancing the effectivity of service supply with explicit consideration to rural and underserved communities, therefore, the inclusion for girls to obtain gender parity, and alternatives for the youth by way of the nurturing of new companies, creation of job alternatives, facilitation of ICT-based entrepreneurship and securing the our on-line world for the realization of the SDGs. She stated as half of course of, Ghana has related over 2.3 million folks and would improve efforts to lengthen protection to 6 million unconnected rural populaces by 2023 by way of the Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Programme.
Speaking on the Girls-In-ICT initiative, she elaborated that the authorities, underneath the auspices of the Ministry, had expanded the annual Girls in ICT programme from 1000 women to 5,000 Basic School women and one other 5000 women in secondary, and tertiary establishments.
She used the event to name on the help of every African nation on Ghana’s candidature for re-election to the ITU Council and the election of Engineer Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko for Radio Regulations Board Region D at the ITU 2022 Plenipotentiary Conference which was scheduled to happen in Bucharest in September-October this yr.
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