Communications And Digitalization Minister Adjudicated Digital Leader of the Year 2022 | Technology

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

This was in recognition of her wonderful efficiency in championing Ghana's Digital Transformation Agenda for nationwide growth.

The GITTA awards additionally celebrated different Change Makers and people offering Digital Leadership within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) business with the goal 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 distinguished award on behalf of the Sector Minister, counseled the organizers, INSTINCT WAVE, for a laudable and galvanizing occasion to encourage people and establishments to proceed to work arduous for a resilient digital economic system.

She stated the GITTA occasion was some of the celebrated ICT awards in latest occasions and is perhaps arguably known as the Oscars of the ICT and Telecom business, noting that, the ICT and Telecom business had additionally cemented its place as a very powerful enabler of growth.

Ms. Pomaa-Boateng stated innovation stays the hallmark of entrepreneurship which offers big alternatives for job creation and financial development to construct a sturdy digital economic system.
She added that having a digitally literate workforce was mandatory to reinforce the widespread adoption and use of digital services and products by all Ghanaians no matter geographical location and financial standing.

According to the Deputy Minister, it was towards this background that governments the world over 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 stated the MoCD stays dedicated to the President's digitalization agenda and would proceed to work across the clock to rework Ghana's economic system.

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

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

She revealed that MoCD has established a state-of-the-art 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 way of the internet hosting of Tech corporations and Digital Start-ups.

She famous that the Center which commenced operations in 2017, has incubated 200 digital start-ups over the interval, including, that with funding from the World financial institution, the Ministry arrange an Innovation Center on the GDCL made up of an Innovation Hub (iHub ) and a cellular Applications Lab (mLab).

She talked about the ministry's effort to offer coaching in Digital advertising and marketing, name middle expertise, primary IT, Microsoft workplace suite, BPO expertise to deprived youth within the Greater Accra Region on the Center and the success story was being replicated in different elements of the nation primarily to create extra job alternatives for the youth unbiased of geographical location.

The CEO of Instinct wave, Mr Akin Naphtal in a brief welcome tackle indicated that the GITTA awards is geared toward selling and celebrating governments establishments, digital operators, Infrastructure Providers amongst others to share the progress of their profitable improvements geared toward additional enhancing the Ghanaian neighborhood as a part of Government's imaginative and prescient of constructing a sturdy digital economic system.

“GITTA was created as a strategic platform to recognize, reward and showcase the pioneering ICT initiatives driving the Ghanaian private and public sectors with a vision of setting a benchmark to the sub-region's wave of development in ICT,” he added.

According to him, GITTA will acknowledge organizations and people on the forefront of Digitization with revolutionary services and products that hold ICT sector thrilling.

“The prestigious annual ICT gala awards night has inspired and promoted further development, growth, and innovation of the country's ICT industry as a regional leader”, he stated.