The Acting Director of the Information Services Department (ISD), Dr Winifred Nafisa Mahama has called for strengthened support for the United Nations Department of Global Communications and UN Information Centres.
She argued that UN bodies’ capacity to deliver credible and multilingual information at the country level needed to be enhanced to meet the growing demands of a pressured global information environment.
Dr Mahama made the call during a session of the United Nations Information Committee, where she delivered Ghana’s national statement.
She said the Department of Global Communications and UN Information Centres played a role that was too important to be left under-resourced, particularly at a time when the global information space was under growing pressure from misinformation, disinformation and hate speech.
She called on the international community to direct greater attention and resources to these bodies so they could have a wider and more meaningful impact at the grassroots level in member states.
She also used the the statement to reaffirm Ghana’s commitment to international cooperation in building a more inclusive, equitable and resilient global information environment, saying the challenges facing the information space were too large and too interconnected for any single country to address alone.
Richard Aniagyei, ISD
