NITA to hold a brainstorming ICT stakeholder conference on Legislative Instruments

The National Information Technology Agency (NITA) is to hold a brainstorming ICT stakeholder conference from July 5th to 7th 2023 at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence to review the draft content of two Legislative Instruments (LIs) for the NITA Act, 2008 (Act 771) and the Electronic Transactions Act, 2008 (Act 772) which are being prepared to be put before Parliament. The conference is meant to take the input of players in the ICT space to fine-tune the draft LIs.

The Director General of NITA, Mr. Richard Okyere-Fosu expressed how important this exercise is, not only to the Agency and the government, but also to all players and consumers in the ICT sector. He said, “NITA has existed for 15 years without these key legislative instruments (LIs) which are considered essential operational tools needed for NITA to function fully and effectively”.

“We want to hear the voices, we want to consult with them and get their opinion on what we are trying to do with the LI, and as you said Ghana is a country of laws, NITA was established by a law, the NITA act , act 771 and in fact electronic transaction act is also one of our underlying acts, act 772, these were the primary acts and typically by law after you bring the primary legislation you must come up with the secondary legislation to help you with your operations” Mr. Okyere told 3FM.

“If someone is sitting in their bedroom, using online and ordering goods or services from China, Amazon, Alibaba or whatever and he is selling it, there is no recourse for it if something goes wrong with the product. So, we must know whoever is in the system, who is doing something with ICT so that at least we know the eco system, be able to quantify those who are in the different sectors and be able to provide these sorts of information to GRA as and when they need it” he stressed.

By Gertrude Ennin|3news.com|Ghana

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