SOCRATES
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 3

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

  • Author:
  • Peter Asare-Nuamah1, Darko Emmanuel Agyepong2
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 47 to 57

1PhD Student, Pan African University, Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde II, Soa, Cameroon

2Masters Student, University of Ghana Business School, Ghana, E-Mail: nana.agyepong@yahoo.com

Online published on 12 May, 2017.

Abstract

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 is necessary to tackle the challenges of e-governance implementation.

Keywords

E-governance, policies, legal frameworks, Ghana, Government of Ghana