News:
July 29, 2011
The government is formulating a bill to provide a legal and regulatory framework for the protection of computerized information before the country adopts a full scale digital economy.
The proposed Data Protection Bill seeks to protect the right of all Ghanaians to personal data as well as those of corporate organizations.
Haruna Idrissu, Minister of Communication, announced this I an address read on his behalf at the launch of the “First Africa Digital Week 2011” in Accra yesterday and said the bill was currently before Parliament and would be considered when the House resumed in October.
The ceremony was organized by the Africa e- Governance Academy.
He said the ministry had been working with the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) and other organizations to pilot an e-mail and web management postal in the cloud platform.
The collaboration, he said, was also meant to evaluate security challenges by deploying policy makers, academics and solution providers to deepen government infrastructure in ICT development in the country.
He said the unethical practice of hacking which revealed government and individual private information as well as defrauding them, was a major concern to government , and the move would provide adequate protection to individuals provide information and also guard them from being duped.