Ursula Owusu Awarded 2022 Digital Leader Of The Year | General News

The Minister for Communications and Digitalization (MoCD), Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has been adjudged the Digital Leader of the Year for the second consecutive time on the twelfth Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards (GITTA) held on October 21, 2022, on the Movenpick Hotel in Accra.

The award was in recognition of her efforts in championing Ghana's digital transformation agenda for nationwide growth.

The GITTA awards additionally celebrated different changemakers and people offering digital management within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) trade with the intention of spurring enterprise and enabling company leaders to innovate and supply higher and extra environment friendly providers and merchandise.

The Deputy Minister for MoCD, Ms Ama Pomaa-Boateng (MP), who acquired the award on behalf of the sector Minister, recommended the organizers, INSTINCT WAVE, for a laudable and provoking occasion to encourage people and establishments to proceed to work onerous for a resilient digital financial system.

She mentioned the GITTA occasion was one of the crucial celebrated ICT awards in current occasions and may be known as the Oscars of the ICT and Telecom trade.

Ms Pomaa-Boateng mentioned innovation stays the hallmark of entrepreneurship which gives big alternatives for job creation and financial progress to construct a strong digital financial system.

She added that having a digitally literate workforce was crucial to reinforce the widespread adoption and use of digital services and products by all Ghanaians regardless of geographical location and financial standing.

According to the Deputy Minister, it was towards this background that governments internationally proceed to undertake digital applied sciences to fast-track their growth, present higher and extra environment friendly providers, whereas higher responding to the wants of the individuals.

She mentioned the MoCD remained dedicated to the President's digitalization agenda and would proceed to work across the clock to rework Ghana's financial system.

To obtain this, she talked about that the Ministry has carried out a number of initiatives together with the annual Girls-in-ICT program that gives a platform for Ghanaian ladies in High Schools to amass digital expertise and fire up curiosity in them to pursue ICT programs at greater academic ranges .

"Over 9,000 girls have been trained so far since the inception of the initiative in 2012 in Ghana. We also have the cyber security version of the Girls in ICT which focuses on the Senior High Schools and has so far trained over 50,000 young women across the country", she said.

She indicated that, so as to equip the youth with digital expertise to handle the remodeling financial system and meet the labor market's expectations of rising the digital financial system, the Ministry facilitates ICT data and expertise acquisition by people and establishments.

She revealed that the MoCD has established a mini tech hub, known as the Ghana Digital Centers Limited (GDCL) to harness the digital potential of Ghana by driving Digital innovation and entrepreneurship to create digital and ancillary jobs for the youth by the internet hosting of tech companies and digital start-ups.