As at the end of July 2017, the total subscriptions of mobile data in the country was 22,103,467, with a penetration rate of 77.58%, noted to be one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa.

[contextly_sidebar id=”aRMa2DMTpjpWIHHCcVoXcYe6gFNP7t15″]But Mr. Andah noted that, Ghana needed to up its game as far as “providing affordable and accessible broadband is concerned, however, there is an offline version of this app.”

“The offline version is so heavy that if we release it to the public when you download, it will probably chop all your data. That is why we are using the online mode so that when you download, the amount of data that is consumed is insignificant,” he explained on The Big Issue.

This notwithstanding, the Communications Ministry also has teams on the ground “physically assisting people who don’t have access to a smart device or don’t have access to broadband to generate addresses from the offline mode,” Mr. Andah disclosed.

His outfit is collaborating with the National Commission on Civic Education to go “door to door, where there is no broadband access or access to smartphones, to drive education and drive awareness to assist people to generate their digital addresses.”

The Ghana Post offices nationwide will also have these offline mode devices to enable citizens to generate their digital addresses.

The National Digital Property Addressing System, also known as the Ghana Post GPS is aimed at providing an effective means of addressing every location and place in the country, using an information technology application.

The app, which government said cost the country $2.5 million has however been criticized by some experts in the technology space as well as some civil society organizations.

The $2.5 million covers the back-end solution, data analytics, firewalls, servers, the aforementioned Google license, marketing and publicity, technical support, among others.

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonine.com/Ghana

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Organised Labour declared its decision to embark on a one-day protest on Thursday, 24 July, 2014 and asked “all workers in the formal and informal sector to stay away from work and converge at designated locations in Accra and other regional capitals to demonstrate.”

The Federation of Labour has however expressed  disinterest in the intended  protest.

The General Secretary of the Federation, Abraham Koomson believes the TUC’s action is politically motivated.

He described TUC’s decision as “populist and politically motivated”.

But speaking on Citi FM’s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issues, Mr. Bokpin commended the TUC for its decision saying: “consistently TUC has shown that there are key stakeholders in the economy. They follow key development in the economy and they have made inputs into our economic development process”

He said the decision has become necessary considering the fact that government had “gone to bed”.

“We have come to accept excuses and I don’t think it’s good enough….it’s about time we let government know that there is a limit you can go,” Mr. Bokpin said.

He noted that the monitoring and evaluation in the public sector is gradually reducing as a result of government’s lack of concern.

The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe on the other hand asked the TUC to show a certain level of “responsibility.”

In his opinion, the TUC should rather carry out a retrenchment plan to prune out its unproductive employees than depending on government to resolve the current economic challenges.

“In as much as I agree with them that the government has done a lot of damage to the economy, let us also put a part of the blame on the TUC.

“They are too many, they are running around doing nothing…If the TUC doesn’t have the tools, they should stay home,” said Franklin Cudjoe

By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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