NCC Steering Committee Inaugurated


A nine-member steering committee with institutional reorientations to oversee the institutionalisation of the National Cybersecurity Challenge (NCC) has been inaugurated.


An initiative of the Cyber Security Authority (CSA), the committee, chaired by Dr. Janet Ampadu Fofie, a former Chairperson of the Public Services Commission (PSC) is aimed at empowering children and young people to stay safe on the internet.


The inauguration which occurred in Accra recently on the sidelines of a Child Online Protection (COP) Stakeholder Coordination Meeting assembles stakeholders within the cybersecurity industry and child-based organisations.


Speaking at the event the Director-General of CSA, Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, indicated that the committee are being entrusted with providing strategic direction, oversight, and leadership to the NCC.” 


He added that the committee is expected to collaborate with relevant stakeholders to implement measures that would ensure its sustainability and further widen its impact while ensuring that the project remained aligned with national cybersecurity and child online protection priorities.


The NCC is a child online protection initiative introduced by the CSA in 2022. It currently targets senior high school students across all sixteen regions of Ghana in a competition to equip students with essential skills to navigate digital technology responsibly and confidently.


It also serves as a pipeline for grooming the next generation of cybersecurity experts.

Other members of the committee are Ms Joyce Odame, UNICEF Ghana; Dr Nana Kofi Annan, Wisconsin International University College, Ghana; Ms Afua Brown-Eyeson, a Legal Practitioner; and Ms Awo Aidam Amenyah, Executive Director, Child Online Africa.


The rest are Mr Alexander Sefah Boadu, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection; Mr. Fakor Disu; Ghana Education Service, Mr Joseph Quaye, E-Crime Bureau; and Mr Alexander Oppong, CSA.

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