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Politics of Friday October 30, 2020
Source: Richard Obeng Bediako, Contributor
2020-10-30
Nana Akomea, former Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party
State Transportation Company (STC) Managing Director Nana Akomea commended Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for his progress in ensuring that Ghana’s economy is formalized through digitization.
He commended Dr. Bawumia for undertaking various digital initiatives to improve his operations and said he believed those interventions would help harmonize the entire architecture of Ghana’s economy.
“Dr. Bawumia has done so well in terms of digitizing the economy, the whole world is moving towards a digital world but Ghana is far behind,” Nana Akomea exclusively told Kwaku Owusu Adjei on ‘Pae Mu Ka’ in Accra. Kingdom FM 107.7
According to him, digitization would make it possible to expand the tax network thereby improving revenue collection by the government, leading to less loans and debt service.
He stressed that the recent government policy to digitize the economy, spearheaded by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, would enhance the competitiveness of the Ghanaian economy.
The government has already implemented similar digitization platforms including the National Digital Property Addressing System which provides Ghanaians with a unique permanent digital address linked to zip codes, the introduction of paperless port operations, the integrated electronic immigration system, recruitment electronics, electronic parliament, e-justice, e-cabinet and smart workplaces, among other initiatives, which are in various stages of implementation and development of an interoperability system to integrate government databases.
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