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NITA Should Be The Heart Of Ghana’s ICT Ecosystem – Minister For Communication
06 Jul

NITA Should Be The Heart Of Ghana’s ICT Ecosystem – Minister For Communication

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The Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has emphasised the need to empower the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) with a Legislative Instrument (LI) to enable the agency effectively to regulate and enforce the laws in the ICT ecosystem in Ghana. She noted that there are laws intended to regulate ICT in Ghana but due to the absence of a backing of the Legislative Instrument, it is very difficult to operationalize them. “If you want to register service providers, they will ask you, how are you going to do it? We can’t just make it up if we go…
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Competition Is Needed To Make Internet Data More Affordable – NITA
05 Jul

Competition Is Needed To Make Internet Data More Affordable – NITA

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Director General of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Richard Okyere-Fosu has entreated the National Communication Authority (NCA), to spearhead competition among the telecommunication companies in order to help bring data charges down. He told Johnnie Hughes in an interview on 3FM Sunrise Morning Show that though the survey shows that Ghana has a competitive telecommunication industry, it is incumbent on the regulator to stimulate more competition which in turn will compel the service providers to reduce their charges. “From the last survey I saw, Ghana was competitive, and it can be better so obviously sometimes the way you do…
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