Ursula Rallies Africa Leaders To Champion Digitalization | Technology

Minister of Communications and Digitalization, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has requested different African leaders to study from Ghana and likewise champion the digitalization agenda to allow their financial and future positive factors to be unimaginable.

She mentioned digitization has big prospects in supporting the fast prototyping of concepts, seeding digital improvements, focused enterprise incubation and acceleration packages within the digital industries, and likewise serving to to mitigate a number of the challenges recognized throughout the tech ecosystem.

Speaking on the High-Level Seminar on Accelerating Digital Transformation: Realizing Dakar's Call to Action in Western and Central Africa in Washington DC, Mrs Ursula Ekuful mentioned, Ghana's digitalization agenda has formed quite a lot of sectors within the economic system.

She urged different leaders on the African continent to emulate the identical in methods to drive monetary inclusion, shut info gaps, and alter the best way of labor regardless of challenges that will encounter from the preliminary stage of its implementation.

Ghana, she indicated has gained and seen super progress in each sector of the economic system for the reason that goal to shift to the digitalization facet.

“Our digital transformation journey has been challenging yet very exciting. Challenging due to the continuous demand for resources from all sectors to digitize and improve business processes but the excitement is from the modest gains achieved with relatively minimal investment. Since 2017, our government has taken deliberate steps to formalize our economy through digital technology. We have focused on foundational digital infrastructure to enhance connectivity, reskilling and upskilling our youth, and building interoperable platforms and a single national database on our national E ID which is linked to Ghana Revenue Authority and Tax identification Numbers (TIN) to enhance tax administration and compliance, E ID is also linked to Health Insurance, SIM registry, Pensions Authority, Companies Registry, DVLA, Passports, Digital address system, etc.”

She added, “We are also focusing on strengthening the regulatory oversight on Electronic transactions by building the capacity of the National Information Technology Agency and other regulators in the sector including our Cybersecurity Authority and have just launched the AfCFTA hub as a one-stop shop for all e-commerce, e logistics, courier companies, MNOs, payments systems operators, standards authority, FDA and the key regulators in the sector NCA, PCRSC, CSA, DPC, among others to promote trust and facilitate easy uptake of trade within Ghana and with Ghanaian companies.”

She mentioned Ghana's achievement over the interval within the digitalization agenda has been to efficiently enhance connectivity to all areas of the nation, creating the enabling surroundings for the non-public sector to additional make investments and thrive, implementing a Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project (GRTDIP), constructing over 300 excessive school digital labs for college kids and lecturers use, digitizing Parliament and Cabinet - Public Procurement Systems which she indicated is projected to avoid wasting the nation in extra of USD 100 million {dollars} every year – digitalization of the Judicial techniques and Office of the Attorney General.

Also, digitizing the Birth and Deaths Registry, Registrar General Department, Office of the Attorney General, Ghana Revenue Authority, Immigration, and important utility companies just like the Electricity Company of Ghana ECG, Ghana Water in addition to further government funds platforms such because the GIFMIS and GHANA.GOV platforms, amongst others.