MINUTES OF GHAJICT MEETING on 29 June, 2007 at
BusyInternet, Ring Road
Present:
n Ruby Amable, Ag. VICE-PRESIDENT
n E.K.Bensah, Ag. PRESIDENT
n Fred Sarpong, Ag. PRO
Apologies:
· Mawutodzi Abissath, Executive member
· Emily Aggrey, asst Treasurer
· Veronica Kwablah, Treasurer
· Listowell Fordjour, Secretary
ISSUES
- Follow-ups:
- Emily on Finances
- emmanuel on registration form on website
- ruby on contact with parliamentary corps (for ict bills)
- fred on list of invites, or pssibilities from list sent
- status of meeting
- outreach with ginks(.org)
- aob
1. Follow-ups:
- Emily on Finances
· Emily had earlier sent an eml explaining that only her and Ruby had paid. Mawu had promised money, but had not taken it yet
· Recommendation:
o Emmanuel will pay GHC30.00 (ç300,000) to cover two quarters July-ending
o Executive must provide deadlines on payment
o Ruby can pay GHC15.00 (ç150,000) by end of July
o Prospective amts:
§ Veronica – GHC15.00
§ Listowell – GHC15.00
§ Fred -- GHC15.00
§ Mawu --GHC15.00
TOTAL: GHC105.00 (ç1,050,000)
- emmanuel on registration form on website
· only Enoch has signed the form through the GHAJICT blog. Even members of the executive are yet to do so!
- ruby on contact with parliamentary corps (for ict bills)
· according to Fred and Ruby, there are some bills on e-governance that have not yet been laid before parliament
· Ruby can obtain copies of e-communications bill
· Suggestion to check National Communications Authority(NCA) website
· Catch about the e-comm's bill is that World Bank is sponsoring a number of them; as per usual, providing conditionalities
- fred on list of invites, or possibilities from list sent
· Fred will take a look at the list again, and prune them
· Will invite (almost) all from ICT industry
- status of meeting
· this is a pre-strategy meeting
· we STILL might need to have an online meeting
· we WILL assign roles and responsibilities to the LAUNCH for 20/25/27 th July
· we WILL memorialize registration, and assign a "digi-cammer" to take a picture
· recommendations:
o invite Radio Gold's Isaac Tetteh and Mutala Muntari
o send eml invite to Isaac
- outreach with ginks(.org)
- tba
- aob
- add Isaac Tetteh to GHAJICT list-servc
- GHAJICTERS should begin to think about submitting feature articles to Graphic
- Emmanuel suggested articles in Sunday World paper, since they have a section on ICTs
- Let's encourage and follow Mawu's example of having works published on ICTs
- On registration:
i. Speak to executive
ii. Commit them to pay GHC15.00/GHC30.00 every month till month-ending
- Re-think incumbent secretary's constraints on getting to meetings (he works in Tema!)
- NEXT STEPS:
i. 6 July @ 6pm – online meeting
ii. 13 july – online
iii. 20 july—physical meeting
iv. 27th july—come with commitments /…and money!
v. we launch association in august 2007!
Ends
Emmanuel.k.bensah
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