{"id":366712,"date":"2017-10-30T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=366712"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:44:02","slug":"integrate-ghana-post-gps-with-physical-addresses-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/integrate-ghana-post-gps-with-physical-addresses-franklin-cudjoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrate Ghana Post GPS with physical addresses – Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Policy Think Tank, Imani Africa, has emphasized the need for what they term a backward integration into the country\u2019s digital addressing system, Ghana Post GPS.<\/p>\n
According to President of Imani Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, government\u2019s quest to create a formal economy through the use of mechanisms such as the digital addressing system and the National Identification system, may be difficult, if there\u00a0is no means of verifying digital addresses physically.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”YsgoNH600arkCJYCvQkfWpDsliRmcp0H”]Franklin Cudjoe told Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that an integrated system with means of physical verification, should have been the basis for the digital addressing system.<\/p>\n \u201cThe conversion of such coordinates into unique codes as geographically defined for Ghana is in itself a unique thing, and I am saying that is what has been done. The backward integration, which will now mean that we would have to integrate physical addresses into the system, is something that ought to be done. I seriously believe that we should be working on those ones rather, especially when you want to now integrate it into national ID systems.”<\/p>\n His comments follow series of concerns raised about the functionality of Ghana Post GPS, as well as the annual license fees of four hundred thousand dollars, paid to global tech giant Google for navigational services for the addressing system.<\/p>\n Ghana Post GPS can withstand cyber attack -Ursula\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite these concerns, the Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu, has indicated that, the Ghana Post system is robust\u00a0to withstand cyber attack.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Speaking to claims by some tech analysts that the data of Ghanaians fed into the system could fall in the hands of hackers, Communications Minister; Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, said appropriate measures that come with the app make it almost impossible to hack.<\/p>\n \u201cThe proper firewalls and security features are being built into the system prior to it going live to protect against the very things that we all fear happening. I don\u2019t know what someone else is doing to try to breach the defences that are currently being built \u2013 they say the criminals are always one step ahead of us \u2013 but the knowledge on cyber security defences currently available today, wherever it is in the world are what we are employing in the system we are deploying.\u201d<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n The addressing system, which was launched by President Akufo Addo two weeks ago to provide an effective means of addressing every location and place in Ghana using an information technology application has been criticized by some experts in the technology space<\/p>\n