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Transparency and Accountability After 2015: e-Parliament for Citizens' Engagement in the Ghanaian Environment

Beyond providing information, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) really contributes to citizens' participation to public debate. With the use of ICT, Civil societies have played a big role especially in the areas of training, research, relevant fora and conferences as contributions to enabling citizens understand the governance mechanisms which concern them. Focus of this paper shall be on the contribution of two NGOs in Ghana and the important contributions they are making in order to make E-Government, and especially e-Parliament a reality. It is believed that the process of modernizing Ghana's administrative services in the post 2015 era would have succeeded in satisfying the needs of citizens by providing them with electronic services to get informed on administrative processes in a bid to ensure transparency and accountability. This paper makes observations of the need for a radical change in the way that Ghana's Parliament serves its citizens and businesses and recommends a better ICT --based legislature to advance open and citizen-centred government. The paper is based upon compelling evidence from information given through interviews with the Head of Research, Ghana's Parliament and information from relevant Civil Society groups. The research element of the paper draws on the normative literature and current practice to identify contemporary ideas for e-government citizen engagement initiatives to enhance sustainable development in the post 2015 era.