The government will before long pass the Ghana Space Policy to tackle space innovation for the financial turn of events.
The approach will uphold endeavours by the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute to investigate the space business for sped up public development.
VP Dr Mahamudu Bawumia reported this on Friday in Accra at the end service of the United Nations' Fifth International Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Management.
The three-day meeting united more than 100 members from 87 nations around the world, including researchers, scientists and strategy experts to organize and strategise on the best way to utilize space innovation to improve advancement.
It was additionally to fortify the utilization of those advancements to shield and screen water assets and protect them for people in the future.
The meeting was together coordinated by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, as a team with the Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Water and four different services.
VP Dr Bawumia said space science and innovation application offered heaps of chances and advantages and, subsequently, Ghana couldn't easily overlook those possibilities for financial development.
"We have a vital and financial premium to put resources into our space capacities," he said.
"Space applications are fundamental apparatuses for our security, ecological observing, correspondence, debacle counteraction and chance decrease."
Space innovation could likewise assist Ghana with dealing with her regular assets, give early admonition to horticulture and food security, environmental change variation and alleviation, work creation, space administrations, transportation and wellbeing administrations.
Ghana has started a few projects and exercises in space science, beginning with the marking of the African Square Kilometer Array (SKA) association bid arrangement, driven by South Africa, including nine African nations in 2007.
This understanding prompted the foundation of the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory, dispatched in 2017, as a feature of the African Very Long Baseline Interferometer Network being executed by the Department of Science and Technology, South Africa, the Vice President said.
Likewise, the University of Energy and Natural Resources, by the Earth Observation and Research Innovation Center, is planning fires across Africa, distinguishing water bodies and areas of conceivable dry spells, and anticipating the climate along the central belt.
Dr Bawumia said the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) movement, as a component of the utilization of room innovation in Ghana, had expanded the number of TV slots and accessible choices for the watcher.
That had offered watchers better picture quality, more clear sound, new administrations, and greater intuitiveness and information administration including an electronic program guide, he noted.
The Government, under its digitisation plan, had carried out programs like the Ghana Card, versatile cash interoperability, paperless port framework, e-organizer, e-birth and demise register, computerized address framework, Covid-19 tracker application, e-Travel Card or e-Passport, e-Pharmacy and Ghana.gov to further develop administration conveyance and responsibility, the Vice President said.
"We can all authenticate the predominant advancements and administrations accessible to us from the turn of events and forward onboarding of room innovations for the public turn of events."
Teacher Elvis Asare-Bediako, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, in his invite comments, said the Ghana Space Bill was before Cabinet and accepted its entry into regulation would guarantee a significant use of the space business.
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