Business News of Monday, 29 November 2021
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-11-29
Data mining is key for growth and development in the ICT sector
Chief of Executive of Afrifanom, an ICT solutions provider, Nana Osei Kwasi Afrifa has underscored the value of data in propelling Ghana’s digitisation efforts.
According to him, current beneficiaries and persons with knowledge of data mining have used it to turn around the economic and developmental fortunes of countries.
Speaking at the 2021 Ghana Internet Conference spearheaded by the Ghana Internet Conference 2021, Nana Osei Kwasi Afrifa on his part said the lack of trust in Ghanaian ICT firms, to undertake key projects, still remains an obstacle for the growth and capacity development of the local ICT space.
“The biggest government contracts on tech development are seeded to foreign brands and sadly, of the 20 plus banks in Ghana, none is using a bank software system developed by a Ghanaian,” Afrifa is qouted by Citi Business News.
He further called on state actors, stakeholders in the telecommunication and data industry to ramp efforts in safeguarding their data space in order to leverage its predictability to spur economic growth.