The president has appointed Joseph Anokye as
the acting Director General of the National Communication Authority. The
appointment was contained in a January 24, 2017, letter signed by the
Communications Minister designate Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful who was acting as the
president's representative.Mr Anokye's appointment is expected to take
immediate effect if he were to accept the appointment.
"By copy of this
letter, the Deputy Directors General of the NCA are requested to facilitate the
handing over process and your early settlement into the new position," the
letter said.
Until his appointment Anokye worked at The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) an independent agency of the
executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the
civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
The
technology and com President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Mr Joseph
Anokye, a telecommunications engineer as the Acting Director-General of the
National Communications Authority.
According to an appointment letter
issued by the Ministry of Communication on President Akufo-Addo's behalf and
gleaned by the Ghana News Agency, Mr Anokye's appointment takes immediate
effect.
The Deputy Director General of the NCA, has been requested to
facilitate the handing over process and his early settlement in
office.
Mr Anokye was the technology director of the New Patriotic
Party's 2016 Campaign team. He was instrumental in predicting the NPP's victory
in the December 7, 2016 election just eight hours after close of
polls.
Mr Anokye before his appointment was a Telecommunications Service
Manager at NASA, responsible for Integrated Services Network and Information
Technology and Services.
He managed a team of highly technical network
engineers who administer NASA’s Global Mission Telecommunication Wide Area
Network (WAN). They planned, configured, installed, and managed the robust
secure traffic engineered MPLS Backbone that transport data, voice, and video
from and to Space Shuttles, the International Space Station, the Deep Space
Network and numerous Satellites as well as other “Man” and “Unmanned” space
crafts.
Mr Anokye, as his job entailed at the NASA, worked
collaboratively in many Telecommunications Planning exercises worldwide with
Telecom and Network engineers from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),
German Space Operations Centre (GSOC), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Australia’s
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO - Dongara)
and many other national Space Programs like the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in
California.
His experience spanned 18years 6 months from September 1997 –
February 2016 at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland as a
Telecommunications Service Manager - Mission Routed Data Network (NASA
Integrated Services Network).
He is a product of the University of
Maryland from where he holds an MBA.
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guru is also credited for mounting a comprehensive, rigorous IT strategy that
helped the NPP win the 2016 elections.
Mr Anokye is expected to bring his
experience to bear at the NCA and to streamline activities of the Authority when
he assumes office.
The National Communications Authority is the
Government of Ghana agency responsible for the licensing of media houses and
regulating communications activities and services in the country.
The
performance of the Authority has been an issue of critical concern with critics
suggesting the Authority has performed below par.
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