News:
July 23, 2021
Spokesperson for Ghana on the upcoming Community Parliament delocalised meeting in Ghana, Mahama Ayariga said Information and Telecommunications play a major role in the lives of citizens within the West Africa sub-region.
According to him Tuesday, July 27, 2021’s delocalised meeting would invite experts to brief Community lawmakers in the Telecommunication and Information sector in terms of regulations and how to ensure there is some level of uniformity within the sub-region, in the use and application of technology.
Briefing members of the Ghanaian Parliamentary press corps, Mahama Ayariga member of the the Political Affairs, Peace, Security and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) further pointed out that, the meeting can then make recommendations and propose reforms to the Community Parliament for consideration on sub-regional legislation on developing regulations across the sub region.
Again, “we encourage, that meetings would be held in the various countries apart from the two statutory Ordinary Sessions that are held in Abuja, this is part of the efforts to reach out the Community, since there has been explosion in terms of the reach of telecommunications and expansion of infrastructure”.
Mr. Ayariga added that in every nuke and cranny of the sub-region almost every community citizen possesses a cell phone, there are mobile money platforms and it has revolutionized the banking sector in a short time, that amazes all.
And as a sub-region, in terms of politics, social media has become a major platform for political expression by citizens and a major organizing tool for the political actors and social organizations across the sub-region.
“We are also using all forms of technologies in our elections both in voter registrations and campaigns and in election itself”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com