Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president, is one of the top 100 figures on the African continent in terms of influence.
The New African Magazine, a renowned pan-African publication, compiled the exclusive list of transformational African leaders in an effort to recognize, honor, and celebrate a select group of such leaders who are truly changing lives and having a significant impact on both their home nations and the continent of Africa.
Along with Presidents William Ruto of Kenya, Mackey Sall of Senegal, and Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was chosen as one of the world’s prominent LEADERS. Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and Professor Benedict Oramah, the head of the African Exim Bank, are two more people.
Dr. Bawumia received recognition for his unwavering efforts to lead Ghana’s digitization as a key economic strategy to address socio-economic issues.
The journal praised the Vice President for his transformational leadership, calling Dr. Bawumia one of Africa’s most prominent leaders and emphasizing that his changes are “creating unique precedents on the African continent.”
The Oxford-trained economist Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is leading Ghana’s digitisation as a core economic strategy to solve socio-economic problems, formalize and build a more inclusive economy, deal with corruption, and provide social services more effectively, according to the magazine. He is also the former deputy governor of Ghana’s central bank and vice president of the Republic of Ghana since 2017.
“His changes are creating a new standard for the continent. A National Identification System, a Digital Property Addressing System, and a Mobile Money Interoperability System have all been adopted as a result of his digitalization program. For the consumer, this is opening up new opportunities, such as mobile wallets and increased financial inclusion.”
The magazine said, “Bawumia sees technology as the key to altering the economy and delivering crucial services.
The magazine also praised Dr. Bawumia for starting Ghana’s recent oil for gold barter initiative, which aims to use gold instead of the country’s reserve of US dollars to pay for imported oil. This was a wise move to stop the depreciation of the Cedi and rein in the country’s rising fuel prices.
With the transformational policies Dr. Bawumia has championed, Ghana has achieved the following: successfully issued digital national identity cards to Ghanaian nationals and residents, become the first African country to adopt a national digital property address system, become the first African country to implement mobile money interoperability between mobile money accounts and bank accounts, been ranked number one in terms of access to financial inclusion in Africa, become the first country in Africa to implement a universal QR Code payment system and Ghana has also become the first country in the world where banks have issued their own mobile money wallets known as GhanaPay.
By employing Zipline drones to carry medical supplies in real time to remote areas of the nation, Ghana has also emerged as the leading provider of medical delivery services globally thanks to his digitalization initiatives.
A common digital portal (Ghana.gov), a national scale E-Pharmacy digital platform, and a common digital platform for Ghana’s property taxation have all been implemented by Ghana, making it the first African nation to do so. All of these developments have significantly increased the country’s ability to raise money.
The most recent recognition from New Africa Magazine is another worldwide honor for Dr. Bawumia for his pivotal involvement in Ghana’s well-received digitalization effort.
Recently, Dr. Bawumia was referred to by the UNDP as a “champion of digitalisation” and his work has expedited inclusive development, according to Angela Rusigi, the country representative for the UNDP.