Excellency President, John Dramani Mahama,Excellency Minister. Sam Norte, Lordship Chairperson Ministers.
Deputy ministers My dear, you and colleagues and members of the Diplomatic community Traditional Chief, It's very nice to stand here with you.
I have five minutes and Bernard will start rolling his eyes.
If I go on too long, so it's in two short stories, The Journey of The shared Journey of the U.N Government and the people of Ghana I arrived in Ghana just a month before the elections of 2024. And so in two months as you formed your cabinet, I started to pay the courtesy visits to various ministers Ministries, So I met this Young Dynamic minister Length about his vision For digital transformation Ethics, which has come up quite a bit Fairness.
Why should our people not have the full benefits of AI?
He reminded me that A I must not create the new Digital divide He told me about building a large language model In the languages Languages of Ghana He told me about 2 million coders program, I'm not a techie I'm an economist I and, and economists assume everything.
The assume.It's a perfect world.
I was blown away, I was intimidated.
I said, what, what is the one intelligent thing?
I can say to this person because he is so knowledgeable, he's so driven by his vision and his passion, so I made some polite noises A couple of months later, I get a call from him.
Say, we need to do a digital boot camp.
AI boot camp.
I looked up boot camp.
And And off we went off.
We went to a two-day retreat.
Where he, You led us to.
Not only did did our cabinet ministers and senior directors in focal points participate.
Even I became AI Literate and now I have Outsourced all my intellectual work to AI.
Colleagues, Today, One thing that Mr. Sam George said to me In our first meeting Is that he wants to make Ghana The Shining City on the hill In the digital and AI transformation.
So today I say to you That with this great moment, this time where the strategy has come to life, I know I'll get another four call phone call from him saying.
Now, let's take it to the road show.
Take it to our people.
I want to end by quoting my favourite one of my favourite authors The French altar.
Victor Rugo Who said Nothing.
Nothing can stop an idea.
Whose time has come Your time.
Your time to be the Shining City on the hill With the AI is here.
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