Ghana’s shady e-Gate Project

This is a very quick note to explain my recent tweet about the biometric e-gate solution recently commissioned by Ghana’s Vice President (Veep).

Ghana’s current electronic immigration management system is largely funded by the United States and supported by US contractors.

However, it is not true that the system is “controlled” by the US or that all the data is managed by the US. The existing arrangement provides for all the data to be managed by Ghana. The Ghanaian immigration authorities have in fact deployed on-premise servers to handle their own data. There is also a plan for support to be transitioned to the Ghanaian side. Only pure indolence and neglect have stalled this to date......