The National Identifications Authority (NIA) has announced the beginning of the registration of Ghanaians living abroad, as stipulated in the NIA Act, 2008 (Act 750) through the Ghana High Commission. The pilot exercise will first be carried out in Ottawa, Canada, where a team of 10 people will be sent to lead the process. According to Professor Ken Attafuah, the Executive Secretary of NIA, the team will leave Ghana to commence the registration work but also train the officials at the Ghana mission in Ottawa to be able to continue with the registration exercise. "We chose Ottawa, Canada, for a strategic reason, we wanted a place where we will test the technical system that we designed in partnership with our technical partners," he said. Some of the pilot projects will be in Toronto, Washington, and New Jersey, and it wants to involve all the diplomatic missions of Ghana across the world to be registration centres. It will work with mission staff who have already received training regarding the registration process.