Information of Ghanaians not handled by an amateurish firm – Selorm Branttie trained

The application form being used by the various Telecommunication Networks in the country was not produced by a Kenyan amateurish business like IMANI Africa’s Vice President Selorm Branttie searched for to portray. “In creating the Central SIM Sign up, there was a need to also create a systemic registration solution which may easily facilitate the selection, transmission and collation from the data. The Common Platform suppliers therefore designed a SIM Registration App for use simply by Operators. It is therefore not true that the Kenyan company developed this. KelniGVG, just like any other Ghanaian company, is at Liberty to employ staff from other Countries. ”According to some post shared by Handling Director for Accra Electronic Center, the Application used for the procedure also came at no cost towards the Government of Ghana since it’s being propagated within the public domain. In a write-up this individual shared on his Facebook web page, Kofi Ofosu Nkansah pointed out that “It should be mentioned that Government has not authorized any contract with the Application Developer. The App reaches no cost to the Government which the SIM issuing businesses will be paying for the use of the particular APP via License charges arrangements. All the Network workers have in place Commercial contracts with the App developers and so are expected to have SLAs included in the agreements”. Read His Complete Post BelowResponse to Selorm Branttie’s post on the SIM Registration ExerciseSelorm Branttie need to learn to ask the right queries and understand the issues before you make unfounded allegations against the Authorities. BackgroundThe planning and execution of this SIM Registration continues to be very collaborative, so any kind of attempt to act as an counsel for any stakeholder to malign the process may end up revealing the failures of that stakeholder. First and foremost, he has to note that it can be a false to state it is not the responsibility of an MNO to ensure its subscribers are usually properly registered. The SIM Registration Regulation 2011, LI 2006 states in Legislation 1 that:
”A network operator or even service provider shall not switch on a Subscriber Identity Component for a subscriber unless the particular subscriber, Completes registration from the Subscriber Identity Module according to these Regulations; and Conforms with the directives given by the particular Authority under the Act as well as the National Communications Authority React, 2008 (Act 769) for the registration of the Subscriber Identification Module. It is therefore a system operator’s responsibility to ensure most of its subscribers are authorized in accordance with the law and all strategies and cost required for this particular remains the responsibility of the MNO. Secondly, he should remember that the planning, scoping and execution of the SIM Registration Physical exercise was not done by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation alone. From July 2021, meetings were held with all the current project stakeholders (NCA, NIA, NITA, Electoral Commission, Ghana Immigration Service, Registrar General’s Department, MTN, Vodafone, AirtelTigo, Glo, and the BWAs) permitting the development of this application from the beginning. Taking their inputs into consideration, the Ghana SIM program was successfully launched upon 1st October, 2021. The first consideration for implementation included the use of physical devices (hardware) for biometric verification in the point of registration. With all the shortage of those devices across the world because of the pandemic; the massive cost of their acquisition as well as the risk of transferring that will cost to Ghanaian clients, there was a need to consider alternative ways to implement the particular SIM registration within the quickest time possible and at no charge for Ghanaians at broker locations, as stated in the Minister’s communication. If the Government and this case, the Ministry and NCA used BVDs, this same Selorm Branttie would have spewed all sorts of accusations against the Government as they often do. Choice of TechnologyBiometric catch using a mobile application had been selected by all the aforementioned stakeholders as the optimum plus cost-effective technology to be used to get deployment. This necessitated that the mobile application be created to aid in this process and to have the ability to implement this within the least amount of time.
Ghanaians are all aware of the deceptive and criminal activities that are to be perpetrated and the fact that the safety services can not trace all of them. All the details captured with the SIM Registration App are kept in a secured database on the National Information Technology Agency (NITA). NITA has been designated from the Hon. Minister for Marketing communications and Digitalisation, to establish the Central Subscriber Identity Component Register in accordance with Section 2(1) of the EI 63. The particular biometric data captured on the second stage for confirmation purposes is therefore not really stored by the MNOs yet another other private entity. Agreement SuspicionsIt should be noted that will Government has not signed any kind of contract with the App Creator. The App is at complimentary to the Government and that the particular SIM issuing companies is going to be paying for the use of the APPLICATION via License fees preparations. All the Network operators possess in place Commercial agreements with all the App developers and are likely to have SLAs as part of the contracts. Again, the Central SIM Register has been provided without cost to the Government. Who developed the App and precisely why was there the need to create the SIM Registration Application? In developing the Main SIM Register, there was the need to also develop a systemic enrollment solution which would easily assist in the collection, transmission plus collation of the data. The normal Platform vendors therefore developed a SIM Registration Application for use by Operators. Therefore, it is not true that a Kenyan organization developed it. KelniGVG, exactly like any other Ghanaian company, are at Liberty to hire staff from a different nation. The NCA has been thorough in ensuring that any problem with the performance of the SIM Registration App is tackled expeditiously by engaging both App developers and the MNOs. Just like any other App, up-dates have been released to enhance the PerformanceLong Queues at Sign up CentresAlthough, the network providers have more than 100, 500 agents across the country, they have used the SIM Registration Application at less than 4, 1000 registration points for the workout. This has led to long lines at the customer care centres. Dont really think their failure to get the required number of devices will be the fault of the Government or maybe the regulator. Network/Number of energetic agents with App accountsMTN
2072Vodafone
544AirtelTigo
584Glo
42Total
3, 242The MNOs are required to scale in the number of devices to be used for that biometric capture across the country to relieve the long queues. The quantities above are woefully insufficient for registration in a marketplace with over 42 mil subscriptions. The MNOs are actually slow at scaling upward and with the approach of the deadline day for SIM Registration, it really is leading to the long lines being witnessed at the sign up centers. The long lines are also due to subscribers being unable to register with MNO providers close to them and therefore need to travel further to register. The amount of active agents in December 2021 means each agent will need to register a minimum of 12, 955 subsribers as compared to each realtor registering 420 subscribers in case devices had been acquired for the over 100, 000 MNO agents. The MNOs need to sit up and put sufficient measures in place to conform to the law. If MTN with a lion share of the marketplace with over 53, 500 agents had been diligent sufficient and acquired devices for those their agents, almost all their clients would have been registered right now. Selorm, maybe you should inquire the MNOs to give you precisely subscribers to SIM Enrollment Agents and compare that will with the ratio of cellular money subscribers to cellular money agents. And ask your self the hard questions. The NCA has been heard saying within interviews that Community ICT Centres established by GIFEC; Post Office locations around the nation; and NCA offices within the regions were offered to the particular MNOs to facilitate the particular registration process, however , not one of them took up the offer. These types of locations in additions towards the over 100, 000 real estate agent locations would have given all of us a different story by now. It is far from out of place for any state company to have a technical partner. Margins (Identity Management Systems) is really a technical partner to the Nationwide Identification Authority (NIA) and contains assisted the NIA put into action the Ghana Card. Other state agencies may have specialized partners that provide assistance concerning specific projects. KelniGVG continues to be a technical partner towards the Ministry of Communication plus Digitalisation (MoCD) and it is constantly on the play its role within assisting the Ministry provide its mandate. Selorm, there are some more questions for you. Got Margins ever provided the National Identity Card another country before being provided the contract to do so designed for Ghana? Had Snoo Program code at the time provided digital dealing with solutions for a country prior to trying to do it for Ghana? The company that provided the particular Digital Addressing System with regard to Ghana, had they actually done that before? Have you been trying to say that if a firm has never provided a service just before they should not be given the chance if they show that they are in a position to do so? The SIM Sign up Exercise be successfully performed!!!! Source: MyNewsGh. com/ 2022Send your news stories in order to [email protected] plus via WhatsApp on +233 202452509