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Ghana-Card is now recognised as an e-passport by ICAO


  10 Février      110        Society (33411),

   

Accra, Feb.10, GNA-Ghana’s National Identity Card, the Ghana
Card, is now recognised as an e-passport in 44,000 airports
worldwide.

This follows the recognition of the Ghana Card globally as an
electronic passport that can be read and verified in all International
Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) compliant borders.

At a ceremony held at the headquarters of the International Civil
Aviation Organisation in Montreal, Canada, Ghana was officially
presented with the certificate to make the Ghana-Card an e-passport
to be accepted at 44,000 airports globally.

Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada, Mr Ransford Sowah,
symbolically received the ‘key’, which signified Ghana’s entry into the
ICAO family.

This implied that the Ghana-Card, which is the unique biometric
identification card, will be accepted as an e-passport in 197 borders
and 44,000 airports.

Additionally, Ghanaian diasporans who are holding the Ghana-Card
would not obtain visas to travel to Ghana.

In November last year, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, while
delivering a public lecture on the impact of Government’s digitalisation
initiatives at the Brekuso Campus of the Ashesi University, in the
Eastern Region, announced efforts being made by the Akufo-Addo-
led government to make Ghana-Card recognised as an e-passport by
ICAO.

On 13th October 2021, Ghana officially became the 79th member of
the ICAO Public Key Directory community.

The ICAO Public Directory is a central repository for exchanging the
information required to authenticate e-passports.

This will allow border control collaborators to confirm in less than 10
seconds that the e-passport was issued by the right authority.

Vice President Bawumia noted that digitalisation held huge prospects
for the Ghanaian youth to embrace it to propel national development.

The lecture, with the hashtag « DigiTimeinGhana » was on the topic:
« Using Digitalisation to Transform an Economy-The Ghana Story. »

The lecture attracted students from the University of Ghana, Islamic
University, Wisconsin University, the academia, media practitioners,
Ministers of State, and policymakers.

It provided a platform to ask the Vice President questions on the
digital economy.

« There is a growing body of empirical evidence that illustrates the
capacity of digital technology to create jobs, significantly boost
productivity, increase income and support wealth creation. »

« I am excited about the prospects of the nation we are building; the
brilliant minds being nurtured who are contributing towards this vision
and I look forward to all of you playing a role in making our nation
great and strong, » Dr Bawumia emphasised.

The Vice President mentioned progress the Government had made
over the past four years in the areas of unique identity cards
(Ghana-Card), digital address system, mobile money interoperability,
drone medical delivery system, e-passport, Ghana.gov portal, and
many other government services, saying, more was being done with
the youth in mind for them to be the driving force.

« Having put together these large databases as a result of digitalisation,
our focus would now turn, inter alia, to data analytics through big
data, artificial intelligence, machine learning to provide solutions to
many challenges we face, » he said.

« We will leverage on the progress we have made with digitalisation to
drive innovation for the youth.

« We are not yet where we want to be, but we have made a great start
and there is a lot more to come. There is also more to be done to
embed these major digital reforms in the everyday lives of Ghanaians
as adoption and usage of digital technology increases. »

The Vice President urged all Ghanaians to commit to embracing the
digital initiatives for maximum impact in the coming years.

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