{"id":171553,"date":"2015-12-02T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=171553"},"modified":"2015-12-02T20:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:29:41","slug":"digital-migration-govt-to-share-free-digi-box-to-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=171553","title":{"rendered":"Digital migration: Gov&#8217;t to share free digi-box to the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister of Communications Dr. Omane Boamah has announced a new pro-poor policy, following efforts to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new policy will see the government provide funds to buy digital TV boxes for distribution to poor households as part of Ghana\u2019s digital migration efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ud6fsGJeDftZG7xd8zoFy1cNo8YI1AL7&#8243;]Dr. Omane Boamah, announced the policy in Parliament on Wednesday but fell short of announcing how much the new programme will cost the tax payer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contributing to debates on the 2016 budget, Dr. Boamah reiterated that the full migration will be completed in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said despite several efforts by previous government in \u201c2006 and 2008 the migration did not take place\u201d adding that \u201cunder President John Dramani Mahama, the migration is taking place and by the middle of 2016, we would have completed the migration process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/man-sets-up-sattelite-dish-inZimbabwe-AP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-171569\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/man-sets-up-sattelite-dish-inZimbabwe-AP.jpg\" alt=\"A satellite television dish is adjusted on the roof of a house in preparation for the broadcast of election results,  in Bulawayo Monday, March 31, 2008. The slow release of official tallies, so far for just 24 seats, with results split evenly between the ruling party and the opposition, has heightened fears of rigging. The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change began announcing its own tally a day earlier and claims to be leading by a wide margin.  (AP Photo)\" width=\"575\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/man-sets-up-sattelite-dish-inZimbabwe-AP.jpg 400w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/man-sets-up-sattelite-dish-inZimbabwe-AP-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn terms of the distribution of the satellite boxes, government will make an intervention because as a social democratic government, we believe that the international agreement that is saying that we should migrate from analogue to the digital broadcasting must also be sensitive to the plight of the have-nots. And it is not everyone who can change the television receiving sense from analogue to digital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minster explained that such people would have to be supported with setup boxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As a result of that, government will procure some setup boxes and ensure that it distributes them to the have-nots and this is something that we promise transparency and equitable distribution,\u201d the Communications Minister added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ud6fsGJeDftZG7xd8zoFy1cNo8YI1AL7&#8243;]Dr. Omane Boamah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":105085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-171553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}