{"id":987250,"date":"2022-02-12T05:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/what-icao-director-of-air-transport-said-about-ghanas-e-passport\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T05:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T05:46:10","slug":"what-icao-director-of-air-transport-said-about-ghanas-e-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/what-icao-director-of-air-transport-said-about-ghanas-e-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"What ICAO Director of Air Transport said about Ghana&#039;s e-passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/474\/47438054.295.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Ghana Card\u2019 now adopted as valid e-passport\" title=\"\u2018Ghana Card\u2019 now adopted as valid e-passport\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\"> <span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>\u2018Ghana Card\u2019 now adopted as valid e-passport<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\"><b>\u2018Ghana Card\u2019 adopted as an e-passport<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghana signs certificate of authority into PKD system<\/p>\n<p>Holders of \u2018Ghana Card\u2019 to travel with e-passport<\/p>\n<p>The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has congratulated Ghana for its decision to join the ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD). <\/p>\n<p>The development comes after ICAO successfully on Wednesday February 9 approved that Ghana\u2019s national identification card also known as the \u2018Ghana Card\u2019 be recongised as an electronic passport for international travel. <\/p>\n<p>A tweet posted by ICAO on Thursday February 10 said, \u201cWe congratulate Ghana for its decision to join the ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD). It is a central repository for exchanging the information required to authenticate e-Passports\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We congratulate ????????#Ghana for its decision to join the ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD). It is a central repository for exchanging the information required to authenticate ePassports. Learn about its advantages and which states currently participate here: https:\/\/t.co\/kq7UYYzJzE https:\/\/t.co\/SYv7qINjlU<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICAO (@icao) February 10, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ghana on Wednesday, February 9, 2022 signed a certificate of authority into the PKF system at a ceremony held by the Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal, Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Ransford Sowah, Ghana\u2019s High Commissioner in Canada received the country\u2019s certification to allow for the adoption of the unique biometric identification card for travel. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, Ghana was in October last year accepted as the 79th member of ICAO\u2019s Public Key Directory (PKD) community.<\/p>\n<p>The ICAO (PKD) is a central repository for exchanging the information required to authenticate e-passports for travel-related activities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ICAO Director of Air Transport, Mohamed Fareed further congratulated Ghana for achieving the feat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Ghana for its decision to join the @ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD). It was a pleasure to personally congratulate the DG of Ghana Mr. Charles Kraikue and Ms. Anita Adjei-Nmashie, Ghana\u2019s representative to ICAO on this important milestone,\u201d Mohamed Fareed wrote. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to ????????#Ghana for its decision to join the @ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD). It was a pleasure to personally congratulate the DG of Ghana Mr. Charles Kraikue and Ms. Anita Adjei-Nmashie, Ghana\u2019s representative to ICAO on this important milestone @GhanaPresidency pic.twitter.com\/HrA6NJxjZp<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohamed Rahma (@mohamedrahma) February 10, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The adoption of the Ghana Card as a valid e-passport means bearers will now be granted access to travel to some 44,000 airports across the world. <\/p>\n<p>The process for the adoption was however spearheaded by the office of Ghana\u2019s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia back in November 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>play video\u2018Ghana Card\u2019 now adopted as valid e-passport \u2018Ghana Card\u2019 adopted as an e-passport Ghana signs certificate of authority into PKD system Holders of \u2018Ghana Card\u2019 to travel with e-passport The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has congratulated Ghana for its decision to join the ICAO Public Key Directory (PKD). The development comes after ICAO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,1749,4782,4367,4859,983],"class_list":["post-987250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-air","tag-director","tag-epassport","tag-ghana039s","tag-icao","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}