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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and climate change adaptation and mitigation:
The case of Ghana ..................................................................................................................................... v
Towards a better environment: The Minister of Communications’ perspective .......................................... v
Towards a better environment: The Minister of Environment, Science and Technology’s perspective ....... vi
Towards a better environment: An EPA perspective of the role of ICT ...................................................... vii
Towards a better environment: An ITU perspective ................................................................................ viii
Towards a better environment: An UNFCCC perspective ........................................................................... ix
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. xi
Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................... 2
Legal notice ............................................................................................................................................... 2
Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................... 3
1. Situating climate change in the global agenda.................................................................................... 4
1.1 Defining climate change .....................................................................................................................4
1.2. Climate change adaptation: an increasing priority .............................................................................5
1.3. Climate change adaptation in the international policy domain .........................................................6
2. Developing nations facing a changing climate: the case of Ghana .................................................... 10
2.1 Overview of Ghana’s context ........................................................................................................... 10
a) Rapid Growth in Mobile Penetration .......................................................................................... 12
b) More international bandwidth for improved connectivity ......................................................... 14
c) Development of the Ghana internet exchange ........................................................................... 14
d) Implementation of Ghana’s e-government network .................................................................. 15
e) Ghana’s new government data centre ........................................................................................ 16
2.2 Climate change impacts in Ghana ................................................................................................... 17
2.3 Climate change adaptation in Ghana .............................................................................................. 19
3. Integrating ICTs and climate change in developing countries: the case of Ghana .............................. 25
3.1 Policy content .................................................................................................................................. 28
3.2 Policy structures .............................................................................................................................. 30
3.3 Policy process .................................................................................................................................. 34
4. The way forward: suggested next steps ............................................................................................ 35
4.1 A framework for ICTs and adaptation policy formulation ............................................................... 35
4.2. ICT sector adaptation ....................................................................................................................... 37
Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................. 39
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