KOFI ANOKYE OWUSU-DARKO (BLOG 1)

INTRODUCTION E-government may mean different things to different countries depending on their level of economic development and therefore different lenses being used in assessing the effective and efficient use of ICT in delivering government business. A country that has an already developed ICT infrastructure and computerised government back office processes will have a different view about e-government that may be more service delivery bias to a country running a manual government back office which will be more oriented towards automation of the back office processes. The definitions of e-government can therefore be said to be within a continuum of automation of government internal business to an external interaction with its citizens. This has broadly been re-categorised by Timothy Waema Professor, School of Computing and Informatics, University of   Nairobi, Kenya) into e-administration, e-services and e-society and in practice it may be possible for different government bodies to

INTRODUCTION E-government may mean different things to different countries depending on their level of economic development and therefore different lenses being used in assessing the effective and efficient use of ICT in delivering government business. A country that has an already developed ICT infrastructure and computerised government back office processes will have a different view about e-government that may be more service delivery bias to a country running a manual government back office which will be more oriented towards automation of the back office processes. The definitions of e-government can therefore be said to be within a continuum of automation of government internal business to an external interaction with its citizens. This has broadly been re-categorised by Timothy Waema Professor, School of Computing and Informatics, University of   Nairobi, Kenya) into e-administration, e-services and e-society and in practice it may be possible for different government bodies to

Introduction In Ghana, biometric is currently being used in the workplace for access control to sensitive areas, financial e-transactions such as the e-zwich (charge cards) and by the government for passports, national ID and hopefully to be deployed in e-voting. This article intends to look at the dangers of holding such biometric database and then bring to fore what we may have to do to protect the Ghanaian as a data subject. As much as possible this article will be limited to provoking some of the legal implications for reflection. Biometric databases generally refer to storing digitized templates of biological information unique to an individual such as retina or iris, fingerprints, voice prints, and of face geometry which is matched with what is produced when a person physically presents herself at a reader.   There are basically two ways of storing such digitized templates, on a card which is under the control of owner (data subject) and centralized which is under the control of