So the discussion around the economic model which is going to work for what we are trying to do let's let's look at Ghana today as a poor country. It's uh poor in the sense that we do not collect enough um tax revenue. We cannot fund the infrastructure that we need. Our output is probably $60 billion or now that the city is stronger a little more in a year and that's a collective output of 30 million people plus and um per capita incomes are therefore probably $1,500 for the whole year and life expectancy is
probably 65 average in in a world in which Japan has a life expectancy of 85 and uh In this context, what we are trying to say is how does innovation, engineering, technology help that journey that Ghana is on. We have a certain dichotomy in our political in our social discourse. Most of the debate right now is what politicians can do. It's what government must do, is what policies need. And it's essential for the um transformation of any society. If you look at your leadership, you look at your government and you look
at your direction. Now the other question though is going to be what do we do next when a person who has let's say a 4year mandate or in some cases even an 8-year mandate to rule is not connecting with the right ideas. Do we just you know advocate that that person should connect with the right ideas or do we also put in place an academic process where those ideas are ped out of academia that is so influential is so um authoritative that people have no option except to listen and to connect with the
ideas that they are also surfacing. When you are able to build that bedrock of thinking, that that that thought industry, you you you you ready yourself for people who can also take some of that thinking and who have the metal, who have the resilience to fight as entrepreneurs towards a certain capital opportunity that funds them. That is what has sometimes been wrongly characterized as making the private sector the engine of. It's um it's not just a question of saying we are stating a policy and position that says we are
um identifying this sector and allocating responsibilities but you are cultivating talent, you are cultivating resilience from people who are going to be able then to break all odds to go and connect with capital and it is in that process that you are going to be able to app that revenue story that we are talking about. you're going to be able to up that culture story. You're going to be able to have a style of um a citizen so that certain practices of hygiene, certain practices of medication, certain practices of
sanitation and so on and so forth lift us to a certain level. Let's not you know as an as an IT guy we have come across many times that confusion between are we working on our primary copy of our infrastructure or are we taking a backup. We are not necessarily taking a backup through entrepreneurship and innovation and capital and so on and so forth. We do know that the primary the primary thing that we have to ensure is that we have good leadership. What we are acknowledging is that we do not
necessarily have laws that will allow us to filter out and get the perfect leader anytime that we want to. So what structures do we need to put in place? So if you look across the world you will see that um in the in the Netherlands I spent five years living in the Netherlands but in the year 2002 when I got to the Netherlands there was no prime minister the coalition had failed and um the pain had put a caretaker in charge until they can get a new coalition but under those circumstances children were being vaccinated schools
were open the roads were working and that's because there are certain institutions that are the bedrock of the I do not divorce myself from the bloody history of the country itself. the you know the Dutch VOC company, the East India Company or whatever it was called and you know the the colonial past the slavery the castles you know a certain amount of capitalism funded a certain part of the foundation of the country and therefore it looks today like it's just efficient in a vacuum and it's based on a certain abstract
concepts of development which they just stumbled upon. I'm not I'm not in denial that that is the unique issue. What I'm saying is that um Africa is also is also strong. I'm saying that we come from a country in which we must fight the narrative. We must not let people say that we are not great because the nations that have come together to form Ghana are nations that individually have solid foundations in heritage and history. There's um people, there's a there's an
there's Ashantis, there's the and these people's history is very rich and it was a certain compromise that led to the connection of what is today present day Ghana. As far back as 1898, the right society was able to overturn the land bill in a London court the work of people like Zaba ensured that the British colonial authority could not pass the land bill. They passed it but they had to reverse it a year later and that tells you that the colonialists at that time were not able to set aside our
land systems. In 1896 they took prem the first out of Ghana and put him in the shells. But in 1824 in 1924 he came back as still the ruler of the people. There are very few monarchs in history. Maybe Hill Salasi Napoleon and a few others who are able to go into exile and come back. Most of the time they get killed but it takes a certain you know metal of leadership to be able to achieve those things. The 17th century in the in the of the of the to seize the keys of the B palace is is is something that today is still
celebrated when they have their festivals when they have so on to show the keys. But those are things that tell you that the colonial journey is overstated by people whose narrative tries to make the conqueror look more important than they actually were. But based on that heritage, we are strong enough to be able to charge our own and we must therefore put innovation at the center and be able to do the same. You can cut away. >> Yeah. Okay. Okay.
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So regarding my current role, I've actually been involved in various aspects of digital transformation. I started in banking operations, then moved to technology leadership, and now I'm focusing on integrating both areas. It's interesting how these experiences overlap and complement each other.
