The Vice President of Ghana has explained the need for countries to digitalize to capitalize on opportunities that digitization offers and to gain competitive advantage in that regard.
He said, post economic challenges would expose countries which had prepared to compete in this new era shrouded with digital technology and those that did not take advantage of digitalization.
The Vice President was speaking at the launch of the MTN Global Connect Customer Success Centre in Accra last Wednesday, and said.
“If you do not ensure that you digitalize, you would not be prepared to compete”.
The Vice-President, believes economies in the world would be self-reliant after this global economic hardship hence the need for Ghana to achieve same.
He lauded MTN Ghana and said the launch of Global Connect was a remarkable feat for MTN Ghana.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, said his outfit has made significant investments in its network infrastructure over the years, it was confident that Global Connect would be a game changer for its stakeholders in the current digital dispensation.
“A few years ago, MTN launched ambition 2025 and restated its focus on Africa with action, and today it represents one of those initiatives that continues to advance our belief in the markets in Ghana, particularly, and also in the environment by building and continuing to invest strategically in this markets and we hope and believe these will encourage others to follow suit,” Mr Adadevoh said.
Digitization and paperless way of doing things have become imperative and the earlier countries streamline their operations in line with this new path the better it will be for these countries.
