Starting in 2023, public sector employees won’t be able to use their personal emails for work-related purposes.
The National Information Technology Agency will be in charge of managing the platform that they are supposed to utilize for official government emails.
Speaking at the technology breakfast meeting organised to sensitise public chief executives on leveraging on the government’s digitalisation drive in Accra, the Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, advised all governmental organisations to communicate with the agency to ensure their inclusion on the platform.
This strategy, according to Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful, would prevent cases where state information is exposed to cyberattacks and maintain the continuity of state information.
She charged the public sector CEOs to tighten structures to protect government information in the discharge of duties and noted that the goal is to ensure “that official information stays within the official domain.”
“In other countries, you could lose your job for not using your official email because it compromises the security of the entire system. It destroys institutional memory. It makes government information available everywhere in the world.”
Also concerned that government business could fall into the wrong hands, Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful said, “Somebody somewhere is using that information that has been provided on those supposedly free platforms and doing all kinds of things with our data which we don’t know about.”
Source: The Independent Ghana