Digital technologies (DTs) have proven to be critical to the development of modern economies. They have changed the ways people communicate, reduced information frictions in markets, improved inclusion (especially in finance), and led to efficient delivery of services. The importance of DTs became even more obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic via their role in the transition to home-based work, e-commerce, and telecommuting, inter alia. Access to DTs features prominently among the development priorities at the continental level. For example, the African Union’s Digital Transformation Agenda aims to achieve universal access to the internet in Africa by 2030.
Yet, in many African countries, access to DTs has been historically low and there remains a huge gap between availability and use as examined extensively in a recent World Bank report, Digital Africa: Technological Transformation for Jobs.
In this blog post, we use newly available census data from Ghana and offer 10 facts on the uptake of internet and fintech between 2010 and 2021, and evidence on factors that drive adoption in the country… source (https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/ten-facts-about-digital-technology-adoption-ghana)
