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Item e-Government Services in Ghana — Current State and Future Perspective(Proceedings - 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2017, 2018-12) Tchao, E.T.; Keelson, E.; Aggor, C.; Amankwa, G.A.M.Current trends have proven that services provided by Electronic Government (e-Government) are helpful in the realization of good governance objectives. These e-Government services leverage on modern Information and Communication Technologies to provide an effective electronic public administration platform through which citizens and a government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) interact with one another. The openness of these e-Government services enhances a government’s ability to achieve transparency, citizen tr st and participation, while c tting down on the cost of governance. It is for these and many other benefits that the Government of Ghana has placed in pragmatic efforts in enacting e-Government policies and deploying pilot projects in several parts of the country. These deployments have mainly been spearheaded by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA). These pilot projects, to some extent, have achieved objectives such as creation of external relations (e-society); refinement of governance procedures (eadministration); and connecting nationals (e-services and e-citizens). Whilst these pilot projects have improved governance structures, dissemination of information and growth of the economy, lack of good infrastructure and sustainable funding schemes for these projects have been identified as major challenges that have affected the full realization of the set goals. This paper investigates the key mitigating factors associated with the pilot e-Governance projects in Ghana by evaluating the existing systems and then looks towards the future.Item Mobile Phone Usage Among Senior High and Technical School Students in Ghana and Its Impact on Academic Outcomes – A Case Study(Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2020) Aggor, C.S.; Tchao, E.T.; Keelson, E.; Diawuo, K.There are currently over 7.6 billion mobile phone connections in the world, which is approximately equivalent to the world’s population; as if to say that everyone in the world is hooked up to mobile telephony. By the next decade, it is estimated that the number of mobile phone subscribers would increase by a billion with 90% of this growth coming from developing countries. This exponential growth coupled with its ubiquity highlights its essentiality in all spheres of human endeavour. Despite the fact that many sectors in developing countries worldwide are embracing its usage as an effective tool, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has placed a ban on the use of mobile phones in senior high schools, technical and vocational institutions. Bearing in mind that most of these institutions provide boarding facilities for their students for long periods of time – spanning over several months; the teaching and learning experience is denied access to mobile phones over this long period. This study administered a survey to determine whether this denial has any impact on educational outcomes and what the impact would be if done otherwise. Using variations of selective and random sampling methods on a sample size of 150 respondents from the Nkoranza municipality, results from the study showed that the use of mobile phones in the Ghana educational system will have a positive impact on the teaching and learning process. Teachers and students would have easy access to up-to-date educational materials. However, the study recommends that for this to be effective and sustainable, proper usage supervision must be provided especially for students in order to avoid negative influence that stem from some social media. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.