Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet)

GCNet is a joint venture and recognised as a model Public-Private Partnership with integrity, professionalism and continuous improvement in Ghana.

GCNet is mandated to deliver an ICT infrastructure that provides electronic platforms for easing trade processes with system availability nationwide to foster trade development and improve revenue mobilization for the benefit of the country and its citizens. GCNet recognizes that providing tailored e- solutions to Government and its agencies in Ghana to automate its processes has a direct impact on creating a competitive environment for trade facilitation while enhancing revenue mobilisation for accelerated national development.

GCNet is a joint venture company, incorporated on November 13th, 2000. Its shareholders are Customs Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS), Ghana Shippers Council (GSC), Ecobank Ghana Ltd. (EBG), Development Finance Holdings Ltd. (DFH), a subsidiary of Ghana Commercial Bank and SGS Societe General de Surveillance S.A. (SGS) of Switzerland.

GCNet operates a customized electronic system for processing trade and customs documents, recording the results of this processing and validation.

It also manages an electronic trade portal known as Ghana TradeNet, and supplies data mining tools to improve the management of trade statistics and revenue reporting for trade and revenue related institutions