This effort was launched in May 2000, when five Ghanaian senior telecommunications regulatory and policy officials joined colleagues from Uganda and South Africa in an intense two-week training program on all facets of regulatory practice. The program was followed by visits with private sector entities such as the Corporate Council on Africa, the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and the National Telephone Cooperative Association.
Additional efforts are currently in planning stages.
The Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Sciences in Accra and the Navrongo Health Research Institute in northern Ghana have established Internet and voice communication through dedicated satellite dishes with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and the World Health Organization in Geneva to facilitate a malaria vaccine development project. The Ghana Chapter of the Internet Society is promoting the expansion of the Internet in Ghana in all related areas including infrastructure, value-added services, content, use, and technical advancement. Data services, paging, and Internet services in Ghana have all undergone varying degrees of liberalization. The airwaves have been fully liberalized to support over 50 radio stations. Ghana's policy objectives in the telecommunications sector include increasing the overall quality of public services, improving public access in both rural and urban areas, expanding mobile coverage, managing fair telecommunications tariffs while maintaining reasonable user costs, generating employment opportunities in the telecommunications and IT sectors, and encouraging foreign investment in the broader telecommunications infrastructure.