{"id":764891,"date":"2022-01-25T00:16:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/ghanaians-urged-to-embrace-national-digitisation-programme\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T00:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:16:43","slug":"ghanaians-urged-to-embrace-national-digitisation-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/ghanaians-urged-to-embrace-national-digitisation-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians urged to embrace national digitisation programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/85448861.295.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President for the MTN Group in West and Central Africa, Ebenezer Twum Asante\" title=\"Vice President for the MTN Group in West and Central Africa, Ebenezer Twum Asante\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vice President for the MTN Group in West and Central Africa, Ebenezer Twum Asante<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>Law and order suffers when societies are less organized, Veep, MTN<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurship should be solution-oriented<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging on technology will develop Ghana\u2019s economy<\/p>\n<p>Vice President for the MTN Group in West and Central Africa, Ebenezer Twum Asante, says the national identity digitization should be expanded and fast-tracked as a prerequisite for building a modern economy. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing post-graduate students of the University of Ghana on Friday, Mr. Asante said less organized societies suffer from lawlessness thus affecting economic activities.<\/p>\n<p>He also attributes unemployment and poverty to poor organization of a country\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<p>He thus encouraged the graduates to be daring and ready to take on challenging tasks to make a difference in their societies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother reminder, that the global share of selfishness remains high. But beyond complaining, let\u2019s play our part. It may be a clarion call to Africa to lift the selflessness balance and as the saying goes \u2018Put our destinies in our own hands.\u2019 Your degree, therefore, should also serve others,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asante however reiterates calls for the youth to embrace entrepreneurship, adding that it is an avenue to help solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Ghana, a lot of people are being encouraged to be entrepreneurs, which is very good. To me, being entrepreneurial means taking ownership of and actively making use of your ideas, talents and knowledge for a living\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President for the MTN Group in West and Central Africa, Ebenezer Twum Asante Law and order suffers when societies are less organized, Veep, MTN Entrepreneurship should be solution-oriented Leveraging on technology will develop Ghana\u2019s economy Vice President for the MTN Group in West and Central Africa, Ebenezer Twum Asante, says the national identity digitization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3028,1863,834,1093,2631,581],"class_list":["post-764891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-digitisation","tag-embrace","tag-ghanaians","tag-national","tag-programme","tag-urged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}