Government is determined to have a digital Property Addressing System as well as a National Identification System by the end of the year, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated.
In line with this, provision will be made for the two systems in the maiden Nana Akufo-Addo government budget to be presented next month.
At a meeting with key stakeholders including Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, on Monday February 6, 2017, the Vice President announced the formation of two committees – Legal and Technical - to undertake the necessary legal, logistical and financial consultation, and design a roadmap for implementation.
The committees have two weeks to submit their reports, with the financial implications to be factored into the 2017 budget.
In Ghana today, MMDAs and other state agencies such as Electricity Company of Ghana, Ghana Water Company, Lands Commission and Ghana Post all have different ways of identifying properties, hinged on different technologies. The Akufo-Addo government has identified the implementation of a digital addressing system as key to harmonising all such systems into a single data resource to aid national planning and economic development.
In opening remarks at the meeting, Vice President Bawumia emphasized that in addition to unique identification for individuals, Ghana needs unique identification for properties, using the appropriate technology, to speed up efforts to formalize the economy.
“The technology exists. We need to leverage on them to leapfrog to the next generation of property addressing. This goal has to be achieved this year, in tandem with the National Identification System.
“It is clear where we’re headed. We’re going digital addressing. We can take advantage of existing systems and integrate into them.
“We need to formalize our economy, and this (digital property addressing system) will be a major legacy that we will leave for generations to come.”
Participants at the meeting agreed that the digital property addressing system would have to be anchored on a comprehensive mapping of the entire country, an exercise which has been hampered by a lack of funds over the years.
The last time Ghana was comprehensively mapped was in 1974, according to officials of the Lands Commission, even though such mapping is supposed to be undertaken every five years. The Land Administration Project (LAP), which began in 2003, has been able to map only 10% of Ghana’s landmass.
Representatives of the Ghana Police Service, Electricity Company of Ghana, Lands Commission, Administrator of Stools, Postal Courier Service Regulatory, Tema Development Corporation, Survey and Mapping Division, Land Valuation Division, and Land Administration Project were present at the meeting.
Also present were representatives of the Forestry Commission, National Information Technology Agency (NITA), and Ghana Post Company.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Ideas are not enough to transform the nation. Execution is. These ideas are not necessarily novel. We pray that it can be implemented and properly too. Things of this nature don't take a year to do and when he NPP promises to complete in a year I fear we will end up worse. We must remember these things have far reaching implications, some legislative. May Ghana win eventually,
this is brain at work. brain to create development for ghana. development in ndc is building structures and inflating prices. creating ***barred word*** and sharing. we are seeing development of great ideas and solid foundation. we are behind you.
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Wow, the news is refreshing. Ghana is now working again. When you have right leadership in the right place at the right time. Things will begin to work. That is why I voted for Change. Well from what I am reading I am gradually seeing change. Keep it Dr. Bawumia
this we go chop. akuffo addo's fulish government
Much as I would like to applaud Bawumia he has started on a wrong footing by saying Digital. Readers remember the bass word Biometric registration all this IT terminologies are just word used by IT men to ***barred word*** we the laymen. The right thing must be done first. That is to map the whole country first in away that you can number the lands or plots. Second Ghana need one institution to be called Birth, Marriage and Death registry to harmonise the data base to capture every one in the country in one register, for birth certificate, mirage certificate if you are married, and death certificate if you are dead. All these certificates are to be issued using the demarcated plot numbers as an address not (P. O. Box)numbers. This register would become the central data base for all other Agencies to link for their information on individuals in the country We all know we are in a digital age so for one to start saying digital registration is nothing new. The exiting buildings apart from the Real Estate developed buildings are not going to be easy to number . For any meaningful mapping it will entails a lot of compensation as peoples' properties would be affected. That is where the challenge is. Is easier said than done. There is a huge challenge ahead you will not even finish one quarter of the country by the year you are envisaging.
The so called street naming project under the previous administration was a complete failure. There are so many communities in the Ga Central Constituency that do not have street names. An investigation must be carried out to finf out what happened to the funds. CHOP CHOP or what?
This is what we called good governance .....this NPP government has vision and goals not like bogus previous govt
This is the beginning of our nation's development.
He had definitely studied the system in these 3 developed country and know how beneficial it will be to Ghana. Dr Bawumia lies wearing suit oo, kweerr hahhahah. They guy dey chop the post well well. Kudos.