Ghana’s Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has mentioned it’ll be prudent for the enterprise group to take a position their sources into the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area for younger professionals venturing into entrepreneurship roles.She mentioned such investments would find yourself in double or triple side and additional open different enterprise alternatives for extra returns as a result of buildings and progress already made within the ICT discipline by the Government over the interval.The Ablekuma West lawmaker addressing the Diaspora investor group on the finish of a six-day Ghana-Canada Investment Summit (GCIS) organised by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) in Toronto, Canada added that, Ghana is at present centered on growing ICT with the youth as her pivot.“The nation has, over time, skilled a number of younger professionals with marketable expertise in ICT. Currently, the Government has constructed a number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education-focused faculties to coach our younger ones in these areas and whip up their curiosity in that discipline as they develop.“Ghana can also be benefiting from its standing as an English-speaking nation to draw enterprise processing orders and outsourcing/back-office jobs from the USA, Canada and the remainder of Europe. We at present have a lot of our ICT professionals taking over a number of distant jobs from different elements of the world within the consolation of their properties and delivering marvelously as a result of they’ve been skilled for the worldwide job market.”She added, “This significantly is an space that every one African diasporans in Canada must be investing in to spice up the human capital and remodel most of those younger professionals into entrepreneurs within the ICT area. This, I consider, is an avenue that may steadily double or triple your investments and open different enterprise doorways for you.”Madam Ursula additional said that partnership with native specialised establishments equivalent to Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT within the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and different rising applied sciences for capability constructing for the information economic system is a particular funding alternative that has prospects of upper returns.In addition, she indicated that, “joint ventures or different association with Ghanaian FinTech firms to serve largely underdeveloped sector on the continent. Business course of outsourcing. Supply of high-tech telecommunications tools. Technology Parks, mini tech hubs. Back-office operations (particularly for monetary establishments). Investment in key digital governance infrastructure. Investments within the final mile connectivity to enhance entry and drive down value. Transaction processing. Manufacturing, assembling and provide of computer systems and equipment” are some particular funding alternatives for the enterprise group.The Ghana-Canada Investment Summit introduced collectively delegates from the worldwide investor group particularly from Canada, enterprise capitalists and personal fairness fund managers amongst others for in-depth discussions and exploration of viable funding alternatives inside numerous sectors of the Ghanaian economic system. It was additionally aimed toward matching diaspora, Canadian buyers and native entrepreneurs and create consciousness of the potential of Diaspora Direct Investment whereas growing commerce between Ghana and Canada.Also current on the Summit had been various state officers, together with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shelly Ayorkor Botcwey, the Minister for Tourism and Culture, Dr Awal Ibrahim Mohammed, GIPC boss, Yofi Grant and different well-known dignitaries.
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