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October 13, 2022
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said there are opportunities in Ghana’s ICT sector that South Korea can invest in especially for digitalization within the public sector which remain the backbone to fighting corruption. According to him if Ghana is able to get a Ghanaian public sector mainstream with ICT even Parliament itself would want to digitalise its records and Ghana can look forward to the relationship between itself and South Korea.
“In other to improve our digitalization regime generally, we would support the bond and relation that exit between both countries for the last forty-five years”, he said. The Minority Leader made this remarks when the Speaker of the Korean Republic National Assembly Rt. Hon Kim Jin-pyo, called on his Ghanaian counterpart Rt. Hon Alban Kingford Bagbin on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 in a sideline meeting at the ongoing 145th IPU Assembly in Rwanda Kigali.
The Minority Leader said he had been discussing with the Ghanaian Speaker the need to have a cheap imbedded passport which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration should take up, as the Republic of Korea has the best example in terms of cheap embedded passport. Mr. Haruna also touched broadband internet connectivity for Ghana, which he noted is low. “We would want to expand our fiber presence across the country in other to support our digital effort; that is also an area that Korean entities can look at. Ghana currently is concluding its migration from Analog radio and television to digital radio and television”, he stated.
He further stated that Ghana has not completed the process yet, hence the need to have set-up boxes for the purpose of completing migration into full scale digital radio and television. Again, with the effect of COVID-19 on our economy we expect that overseas development assistance through PPP can be increased for Ghana in the area of infrastructure development, he noted.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com/Rwanda/Kigali