Virtual Office Solution For Public Workers

President Nana Akudo

PRESIDENT NANA Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in an effort to ensure government continuity and to provide a safe working environment for public servants during the COVID-19 pandemic, has introduced the Government telecommuting platform, Smart WorkplaceTM for use Virtual Work space by all public sector workers.

In his second address toto the nation on measures to curb the spread of the COVID 19 pandemic, the President directed the MMinistry of Communications to implement a digital solution to ensure uninterrupted government business. The National Information Technology Agency has accordingly put together a comprehensive solution to enable all Public Sector workers (ministries, departments and agencies) stay at home and work remotely, observing all the safety protocols of social distancing while working remotely from home. This will also ensure reliable and effective connectivity via sponsored data.

The Smart WorkplaceTM solution provides secured access to all applications and is required to work effectively. This includes secured business-class e-mail services, access to Microsoft office applications, document management, Instant Messaging (IM), audio and video conferencing, calendar management and , file storage amongst others.and IT management. Connectivity can be anywhere, anytime and on throughany device (a PC or laptop, tablet and. smar

Public sector workers will therefore be encouraged to have meetings and collaborations through audio and Video conferencing, fixed-to-mobile convergence will also allow Toll Free numbers to be re-routed/transferred to mobile phones outside the office (useful for Call Centers) operations) numbers while sharing information with colleagues for smooth operation ofn government services.

The Ministry of Communications, as directed by the President, was ready to ensure government functions in all crisis situations such as the current pandemic.

Thus, people can work remotely to curb the spread of the virus and also ensure productivity even in self-quarantine mode if required.

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