The Ghana government in collaboration with World Wide Web Foundation (WWWF) has announced plans for a Ghana Open Data Initiative to make government data more available.
William Tevie, Director General of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), signed a memorandum of understanding between the government and the WWWF, a nongovernmental organization, in Accra on Jan. 26. The foundation website includes a n of the initiative and meetings held recently in Ghana.
Tevie noted that Ghana made a commitment to join the Open Government Partnership. The action comes despite parliamentary reluctance to pass a right to information bill officially supported by the Ghana administration, which has a majority in Parliament. (See previous FreedomInfo.org reports.)
Jose Alonso, Data Programme Manager, WWWF, said the initiative will “increase citizen participation and inclusion through extended offers of services closer to them and new, innovative uses of data in a ways that owners of data would never have thought of,” according to a report by the Ghana News Agency.
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