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Gov’t to begin ‘revolutionary’ National Digital Address System – Veep
The Vice President Dr Bawumia said the national digital address system will be merged with a post code to ensure the unique identification of various addresses.
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He was speaking at a dinner organised by Express Capital on becoming a savings and loans company now Direct Savings and Loans Limited.
The Vice President said the national digital address system will be merged with a post code to ensure the unique identification of various addresses.
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“In the next couple of months, we want to launch the National digital address system for Ghana. It is going to be revolutionary. Every piece or square meter of land in Ghana is uniquely identified by a GPS code so we are going to adopt that technology, leverage on it and make sure that everywhere in Ghana can be uniquely identified by a digital address and by a post code as well.”
Earlier in the year the Ghana Revenue Authority said one major challenge that impeded their tax collection is the absence of street names in the country.
However, Dr Bawumia assured that the exercise will be completed in a few months to ensure transparency for businesses in the country.
“These financial services enable investment, savings and risk mitigation all of which contribute to economic growth, poverty alleviation and job creation.”
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“So we are asking the post office to merge the digital addresses with the post code so that everywhere is uniquely identified,” he added.
Speaking of the financial inclusion strategy he said the government is currently finalising the strategy to increase access to financial services.
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