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Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia Monday urged business leaders to enhance their operations by integrating digital technology to drive business evolution and resilience.
He said innovative digital technology was critical in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and, therefore, imperative for businesses and decision-makers to employ it in their operations and in governance to revitalise the economy.
Vice President Bawumia gave the advice in his keynote address at the Fifth Ghana CEO Summit in Accra.
The two-day event is on the theme: Digital Transformation: Powering Business and Government Reset for a Post-Pandemic Economic Resilience; a Public-Private Sector Dialogue.”
It afforded policy-makers and business leaders the opportunity to have healthy conversations on ways to revitalise the economy.
Date: May - 05 - 2021 , 19:45
BY: Ernest De-Graft Egyir
Category: Features
Left to right: Ernest De-Graft Egyir, President Akufo-Addo and Edward Effah, Founder of Fidelity Bank at the 3rd Ghana CEO Summit in 2018
In late 2019, the novel coronavirus pandemic began its entry into the world. By March 2020, the virus had entered Ghana. In Ghana and elsewhere in the world, measures to limit the spread of the virus restricted movements and mass gatherings.
Some of these measures meant that people could no longer move freely. Schools shut down. Places of worship could not operate for a while. Business operations were hampered. Even the CEO Summit was postponed. Ghana’s growth rate for 2020 was a meagre 0.4%, a sharp decline from the average rate of 6% realized in the previous three years.