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Preamble
The Government of Ghana is committed to pursuing an ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Vision aimed at improving the quality of life of the people of Ghana by significantly enriching their social, economic and cultural well-being through the rapid development and modernization of the economy and society using information and communication technologies as the main engine for accelerated and sustainable economic and social development.
The main mission of the Ghana ICT4AD Vision is: to transform Ghana into an information-rich, knowledge-based and technology-driven high-income economy and society. Some of the key sub-missions of the vision are:
- To develop Ghana’s information and knowledge-based society and economy through the widespread development, deployment, and exploitation of ICTs within the society and economy.
- To transform the educational system to provide the requisite and educational and training services and environment capable of producing the right types of skills and human resources required for developing and driving Ghana’s information and knowledge-based economy and society.
- To develop Ghana’s research and development (R&D) capacity and capabilities with the potential to conduct and engage in advanced and cutting-edge R&D work required for supporting the development of a globally competitive information, knowledge-based and high-tech export industry and services.
The Government is committed to pursuing a number of key strategies towards the achievement of the stated missions of the vision. Key among them are strategies to:
- Transform Ghana into an information and knowledge-driven ICT literate nation;
- Promote the deployment and exploitation of information, knowledge and technology within the economy and society as key drivers for socio-economic development;
- Modernize Ghana’s educational system using ICTs to improve and expand access to education, training and research resources and facilities, as well as the improve the quality of education, and training and make the educational system responsive to the needs and requirements to the economy and society with specific reference to the development of the information and knowledge-based economy and society and
- Improve the human resource development capacity and the Research and Development (R&D) capacity of Ghana to meet the demands and requirements for the nation’s information and knowledge-based economy and society.
The Government as part of this vision acknowledges the key role that ICTs can play in educational delivery and training and the need for ICT training and education in schools, colleges and universities. The Government further acknowledges the role that ICTs can play in literacy education and need to improve the educational system as a whole.
The ICT Policy
Statement is designed to guide the process of the deployment
and exploitation of ICTs within the Ministries to support
its organizational activities and operations within the framework
of the national ICT4AD vision. |
