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Company News of Friday, April 5, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-04-05
Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Thursday launched the Ghana-Oracle Digital Enterprise Program (GODEP) to create 500 top Ghanaian companies as technology industry leaders for building a strong digital economy.
At the opening ceremony in Accra, Vice President Bawumia said the Ghana-Oracle partnership would be a game-changer for Ghana's digital progress and encouraged young people to take advantage of the program and present their innovative ideas to the sector.
GODEP is a partnership between the Government of Ghana and Oracle Corporation, California, USA, to develop technology-based start-up companies in Ghana, the first partnership initiated in Africa.
The vice president acknowledged the enormous ingenuity of Ghana's youth in the field of technology and was convinced that the Ghana Innovation Hub would encourage the talents of digital entrepreneurs to propel the country's digital advances and economic development.
He promised that the government would support the design and deployment of technological tools and broadening the technological footprint.
"I encourage enthusiasts, start-ups and technology companies to take advantage of all the opportunities created by the Government of Ghana and through this partnership with Oracle.
You must be an active part of the platforms and services at your disposal to find latent talents, show and reinforce your strength and skills and become a technological tool for our socio-economic environment and as a desired legacy leading to prosperity, "said Dr. Bawumia.
Vice President Bawumia noted that the world was experiencing the fourth industrial revolution and that technology was driving the global trading environment. It is therefore prudent to take advantage of the creativity and ingenuity of the growing technological phenomenon to accelerate economic growth.
He said that history had taught humanity that countries that gathered technologies often prospered; That's why the Akufo-Addo government has decided to make technology an essential part of the transformation agenda.
With this in mind, he led a team from Ghana during a visit to Silicon Village in the United States last year to see and understand how technology was being used so that Ghana could be at the forefront of technology and forge partnerships with the world's leading players. industry.
He was therefore pleased that this initiative has become fruitful thanks to the partnership between the Ghanaian government and Oracle Corporation.
He added that the industrial revolution had contributed to the rapid digitization of a broad interaction of organizations with the most advanced countries, on the eve of innovative innovations and the constant deployment of new technologies to improve the daily lives of their peoples and simplify tasks until then intimidating.
Bawumia said the Ghanaian government and people were unaware of the benefits of the digital revolution and that they were warmly embracing new technologies while remaining open-minded to define a new paradigm. positive cause.
In this regard, he said, the national lives of Ghanaians were imbued with the current technology encompbading the national identification system, the digital addressing system, the paperless ports system, the system of online banking and mobile money interoperability platform.
The government, he said, has set up a digitization program to improve the efficiency of many public bodies, improve the accessibility of public services and the payment of these services, in order to dispel the the temptation to corrupt simple processes and procedures designed to improve people's quality of life. Ghanaians
He said that technology has changed the dynamics of life and allowed farmers to use these technologies in their agricultural activities, which enabled them to obtain agricultural yields, medical diagnostics and health care, as well as to record data more accurately and to ensure efficient processing of documents licensing and clearance of goods in ports.
He spoke of the government's efforts to use drone technology to deliver essential medical supplies and blood to hard-to-reach areas, helping to overcome geophysical obstacles that could hinder delivery of goods and services.
He added that extending the fiber optic network to connect western and eastern corridors should help develop fast and reliable broadband network services for citizens.
Maria Forney, director of Oracle's Global Start-up Ecosystem, said that Oracle was one of the leading cloud software providers and had extensive portfolios for businesses and organizations of varying sizes around the globe .
She said that he had clients in Africa, including; the Ghanaian governments, ECOBANK-Ghana and Fidelity Bank, noting that, in addition to providing jobs and support to start-ups, this also provided unique solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems.
The Oracle Start-up Ecosystem, she explained, aimed to help entrepreneurs and enable the next generation of young people to use cloud-based technologies for new businesses and their customers.
Ms. Forney acknowledged that the creativity, creativity and honesty of Ghanaian entrepreneurs motivated her decision to partner with Ghana, as well as the government's commitment to digitize its economy and its willingness to expand its services in the country. whole world.
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications, said in a speech that the program would promote digital entrepreneurship and create digital jobs for youth over the next two years.
The program, she said, will work with start-up companies of all sizes and at different stages, ranging from university-affiliated incubators, start-ups and start-ups that need a little help. of thumb to succeed.
In addition, it aimed to promote local solutions and applications that could solve current problems and even export them globally.
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