of a skilled human resource capacity can be singled out as one of the key developmental challenges facing the country. • Relatively high proportion of population with no educational attainment --- Close to 40% of Ghanaians over 6 years of age have never been to school, in other words they have no educational attainment. This figure coupled with the fact that only about 3% of the population had tertiary level education also present Ghana with a major developmental challenge. • Low job creation capacity of the economy --- Close to 68% of employed population are selfemployed with no employees. In other words, the majority of the working population work in their own small enterprises and has no other employees apart from themselves. With the economy dominated by the self-employed, who do not have the capacity to employ others, the prospects for generating additional jobs or employment opportunities for a growing young population are very low. The transformation of the economy to improve on its employment generation capacity is a key developmental challenge facing the country. • Narrow export base dominated by traditional exports ---- Ghana’s trade with the outside world has for many years registered huge balance of payment (BoP) deficits. The country’s small domestic market cannot support the development of the key sectors of the economy. A key developmental challenge facing Ghana therefore relates to the development of a diversified export-led economy targeting key sectors of the economy including the agriculture, services and industrial sectors • Under-developed physical infrastructure. --- Ghana currently suffers from a number of physical infrastructure deficits which is putting a strain on the nation’s developmental efforts. The developmental implications of the nation’s poor physical infrastructure in the area of: roads, power, water and sanitation is a major developmental challenge facing the country. • Poor and limited communications infrastructure --- The development, expansion and the modernization of the nation’s communications infrastructure is a key developmental challenge. A key developmental challenge facing the nation entails the development, expansion and the modernization of the nation’s communications infrastructure to achieve universal service and access to basic and value added telecommunications services, support the development of the local ICT industry and aid the country’s socio-economic development process. It is recognized that the socio-economic problems and challenges facing Ghana are likely to be compounded by the new challenges posed by globalization and the information age. And that for Ghana, to make progress in its developmental process, the nation in addition to taking steps to address these developmental challenges will also need to put in place efforts to address the additional challenges posed by globalization and the information revolution. The ICT4AD Policy Statement sets out Ghana’s vision in the information age. It defines the nation’s broad vision, and the corresponding missions and strategies to serve as a road map for guiding the country’s developmental efforts to aid the process of transforming it into an information and knowledgebased society and economy. The Policy Statement in a nutshell defines the vision and the agenda for developing Ghana’s information society and economy. 18