Regulatory and operational services, in one place.
Some of what NITA does is licensing and oversight. The rest is running national infrastructure that public institutions consume as a service.
National systems we run directly.
Shared infrastructure, delivered once for the whole of government.
Digital Public Infrastructure
The foundational rails — identity, payments and data exchange — that government platforms are built on.
Read more→SmartWorkplace
Standardised, connected office environments rolled out across ministries, departments and agencies.
Read more→Public Key Infrastructure
The trust layer behind digital signatures and secure transactions across government systems.
Read more→GovCert
Ghana's government cyber-incident response and defence service, protecting public sector networks.
Read more→What requires our approval, licence or standard.
If it touches government IT, one of these applies.
Accreditation of IT service providers
Any firm supplying IT goods or services to government must hold a valid NITA accreditation, renewed annually.
Certification of IT professionals
Individual practitioners are certified against NITA competency standards for public-sector engagements.
.gov.gh domain administration
NITA is the sole registrar for the .gov.gh namespace, issuing and revoking names for public institutions.
Data centre & cloud licensing
Operators hosting government workloads are licensed against sovereignty, resilience and security criteria.
Interoperability standards
The Ghana Enterprise Architecture defines how public platforms exchange data and authenticate users.
Capacity building
Training for CIOs, technical staff, legislators and magistrates on ICT law, security and operations.
Supplying IT to government? Start with accreditation.
Procuring entities may only contract accredited providers. Applications are assessed within 15 working days.