Techno Legal Support for E-Governance and Implementation Challenges in Ghana

• Autores: Peter Asare Nuamah, Darko Emmanuel Agyepong
• Localización: SOCRATES: An International, Multi-lingual, Multi-disciplinary, Refereed (peer-reviewed), Indexed Scholarly journal, ISSN-e 2347-6869, Vol. 4, Nº. Extra 3, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: SPECIAL ISSUE - SEPTEMBER- FUTURE OF E-GOVERNMENT:LEARNING FROM THE PAST), págs. 47-57
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Government of Ghana has taken various steps and initiative to provide speedy and quality services to Ghanaians through e-governance but in our legalistic societies, the success of e-governance depends of the availability of legal frameworks and policies. The objective of the study to review and understand the various legal policies and framework that support e-governance in Ghana as well as the challenges of implementing e-governance initiatives. To satisfy the objectives, secondary data were retrieved, reviewed and used for the study. The findings of the study indicate that several polices and frameworks support e-governance in Ghana but their implementations are burdened with social, cultural, political and legal constraints. The study provides some recommendation that are necessary to tackle the challenges of e-governance implementation.