Experts Warn Ghana Risks Digital Anarchy Without AI Policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The minister outlined AI's enormous potential to transform sectors including agriculture, healthcare, logistics, smart cities, and financial inclusion.
60% : Ammishaddai Ofori, co-founder of The Innovation Speak and communications consultant, and Dr. William Brown Acquaye, contributor to Ghana's AI Practitioner's Guide, emphasized that artificial intelligence is already reshaping the country's economy, schools, and farms, making regulatory frameworks urgently necessary.
59% : "Technology will evolve whether we have policy or not, but without regulation, we'll spend the future chasing the problems we could have prevented.
59% : Other key recommendations include establishing a National Deep Science Institute to pursue research in deep tech and cognitive technology, creating a climate smart Agriculture and Forestry Research Initiative, and developing a comprehensive public administration data dashboard for policy planning and resource allocation.
58% : Two leading technology experts have urged government to expedite passage of Ghana's draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, warning that continued delays could leave the country vulnerable to unchecked technological growth and potential abuses in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
58% : Academia, innovators, and government aren't talking to each other.
54% : The implementation timeline initially targeted June 2025 for the strategy's rollout, but that deadline has passed without action.
49% : " The experts highlighted that while Ghana's AI ecosystem is growing, with startups, universities, and innovators using AI in agriculture, healthcare, and logistics, the absence of a national framework is slowing progress and exposing users to risks around data privacy, misinformation, and ethical misuse.

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