Access to information making voices count
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Access to information making voices count
- Country of focus:
- Ghana
- please vote for my innovative idea to win 65,000 dollars. click on the link and vote, voting starts 16 december 2013
Innovative idea / concept & how does it promote transparency and accountability?:
In northern Ghana, a large number of communities don’t have access to
information as compared to the cities and the southing part of the
country. One way we can promote access to information and promote
citizen participation, is to introduce community information centers.
The community information center will not cost more than 10, 000 US
dollars with horns they can broadcast to the whole community even if
they don’t want to listen, they will be to listen because it is
broadcast in the whole community. The communities will link up with
radio stations to provide information to the people also pick
information from the District Assemblies office to educate the community
on what government is doing and how they can also make their plight and
other challenges known to the government through forwarding complaints
to this information center.
What does your government engagement strategy entail?:
The government disseminate information through District Assemblies
information services department and National Commission on Civic
Education (NCCE) but these organizations not have resources to go deep
into the communities to re-double efforts in its information
Dissemination policy. must district complaints about gadgets and funds
which hinder their activities because the Assembly is engage in many
areas. not much attention is given to making information accessibly to
the people
Your idea/concepts’ effect on gender equality, disadvantaged groups and/or grassroots? :
There many communities in the northern Ghana where bad cultural
practices are still going. I believe with the introduction of
information centers community members can get information as to how to
end this practices. Most of the negative culture practices go on in
these communities because they don’t have access to information.
Organizations can also take advantage of this to organize advocacy
programs at the information centers to broadcast to the people.
Why should YOU win?:
i believe i should win this project because my idea can help change
lives in deprive communities in the northern part of Ghana. these
community needs help by letting their views heard and participate in
decision making in the country, when this is done they will be recognize
and their plight solve.
Access to information and transparency are considered a
vaccine for ensuring good governance and countries must gear up for this
vaccine to ensure accountability and prevent corruption. this
innovative idea will help sen information to rural folks
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