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Digitalization & Digitization L’aine CEO

of Ghana CHARGES

education is only a
The digitalization programmes What is digitization? Digitization
springboard to career
would help Government to is a relatively straightforward
development and to the
expand access to revenue concept to understand. Any time
world of work.
collection, fight against you translate something – for
c o r r u p t i o n , e n s u r e example, by scanning a photo or Bridging the gap between
transparency, probity and a document – into bits and bytes, skills and knowledge is a
accountability, formalize the you are digitizing that object. work in progress. But
Ghanaian Economy and Scanning a document into a a c a d e m i a a n d t h e
ensure effective Security and digital archive creates a digitized industry still have to work
Safety of Ghanaians. version, encoded with ones and together in bridging the
It is the expectation that we zeroes, without altering what is skills and behaviour gaps
w i t h o u r y o u n g
would all help to make Ghana written in the document or
graduates. Work is always
the hub of digitalization and activating it in a process.
changing. Even though
digitization in Africa.
there is a lot of progress,
What is digitalization? The w e s h o u l d a l s o
If you're reading this you are upfront effort required to digitize understand that we
objects and assets, positions require a lot of constant
businesses and industries to upscaling”.
carry out digitalization. Data
f r o m t h r o u g h o u t t h e Dr Ellen Hagan, observes
organization and its assets is also that graduates of
processed through advanced today are more obsessed
digital technologies, which leads with building a career in
no time. She, however,
to fundamental changes in
advises that a career is
business processes that can not built overnight,
probably up to speed on result in new business models hence, the need for
digitization. But are you ready and social change. experienced persons to

for digitalization? Although c o a c h t h e s e y o u n g
the two words may sound The Gartner Glossary says: graduates.
similar, there is a notable “Digitalization is the use of digital
difference in digitization technologies to change a H o w t o k n o w i f
versus digitalization – and that business model and provide new entrepreneurship is your
ambiguity has created revenue and value-producing true calling
uncertainty even among IT opportunities. It is the process of There have been instances
professionals. I'll try to clear moving to a digital business.” It is
up the confusion. noteworthy that the rise of where people have started
digitalization coincides with the businesses and given up at
A deep dive into Google some point because they
Trends from 2004 to 2020, lost interest in it. Ellen,
reveals that digitization and speaking with Rev. Erskine
digitalization are nearing on the Y-Leaderboard
parity in Internet searches. Series which airs on YFM's
This convergence mirrors key Myd-Morning Radio Show,
milestones in the Digital Era,
as increased digitization opens gave a solution to this.
the way for digitalization. She observed that usually,

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