Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the digital revolution the government is undertaking is a youth-driven revolution.
According to Dr Bawumia, digitization is a youth revolution, which presents huge prospects for the brilliant Ghanaian youth in terms of job creation, and also enable them to contribute more to the development of the nation.
“There is a growing body of empirical evidence that illustrates the capacity of digital technology to create jobs, significantly boost productivity, increase income and support wealth creation.”
“I am excited about the prospects of the nation we are building, the brilliant minds being nurtured who are contributing towards this vision and I look forward to all of you playing a role in making our nation great and strong,” he said.
This came to light when the Vice President Delivered a public lecture at the Ashesi University on the impact of digitization on the Ghanaian economy.
Dr Bawumia noted that the obvious digitization progress government has made in the areas of unique biometric national identification system, digital address system, mobile money interoperability, digitization of many government services, among others, is only a work in progress, and more is being done with the youth in mind and, and to be the driving force.
“Having put together these large databases as a result of digitization, our focus would now turn inter alia to data analytics through big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning to provide solutions to many challenges we face.”
“We will power on the progress we have made with digitalization to drive innovation for the youth,” he added.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Abba Kwegyirba Aggrey
