![]() ![]() ”The launching of this App is a crucial and bold step towards better solid waste management in the municipality and thereby helping in the realization of the President’s vision of “Accra the Cleanest City in Africa”. Matthew Tay, stated that the App will complement efforts in realizing the vision of the President, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to make “Accra the Cleanest City in Africa”. The speech, delivered on her behalf by the Municipal Coordinating Director (MCD), Mr. Janet Tulasi Mensah, noted that sanitation has been on her heart since her assumption into office, and, together with her team of officers, rolled out several programmes to aid in sanitizing the Municipality. The project will support the monitoring of revised Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, indicator 11.6.1, “Proportion of municipal solid waste collected and managed in controlled facilities out of total municipal solid waste generated, by cities”.Īdditionally, the project will also provide linkages to the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) core district indicators, proportion of population with access to improved sanitation services.Īt an event on Wednesday, 11th November, 2020, at Abokobi, to launch the “CleanApp Ghana” App for the commencement of the pilot phase of the project in the Ga East Municipality, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon. This project, being implemented in the Ga East Municipality and two others Ho and Techiman, aims to leverage technology and innovation to collect Citizen-Generated Data on waste to be used for effective waste management at the local level in these three urban pilot districts. One such pilot project is being convened by the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) this project aims to tackle data gaps in the generation, removal and disposal of solid waste at a sub-regional level. In light of Ghana’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Data Roadmap, a number of projects have emerged to address missing data required for official statistics. The App, which is designed to use Citizen-Generated Data (CGD) to facilitate solutions for the nation’s sanitation situation, was developed by CERSGIS, an IT firm, with GIZ providing the financial and technical support in collaboration with the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources. That is not a good way to do business, and even if it were a solid app, it's hard to support these practices.GIZ, in partnership with the Government of Ghana, has developed and launched a mobile App known as the “CleanApp Ghana” to help address the teething sanitation challenges in the country. So people who just go to the website to buy pay $89 (or $69 when they get a deal of the day), but when they pay from the nag screen, they only pay $56. Even when trying to close the nag screen by pressing the little X in the corner, the X turns into "Don't leave yet, get your personal discount", which opens the website and gives you even more discount than their "Deal of the day" which is shown after you download the trial. ![]() This is clearly done to play on the insecurities of the less-than-tech-savvy users, who might believe that their machine is now in a worse state than before they ran the app, and need to pay now to get a clean system. Especially with an app that is supposed to clean your system, it's really messed up to run an activity only partially, and then ask for money. While it's OK to provide only limited functionality in a trial version, the appsshould be upfront about what the limitation is. Sneaky about trial limitation and prices Trial version only cleans 500 MB, but it does not disclose that limit before one pushes the button to clean after a scan. ![]()
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