Futurist Kwame, a leading voice on technology and innovation, has opened up on the challenges of driving technological growth in countries like Ghana and the reasons why governments tend to resist innovative ideas.
Kwame argued that governments, by nature, resist innovation because it disrupts the status quo, which often benefits certain groups entrenched in systems of corruption and inefficiency. "Governments by their very nature are anti-innovation," Kwame stated. "The reason is because innovation destroys the status quo.
Once it disrupts the status quo, you have people who have vested interests in maintaining that corruption, and you're essentially taking food from their table," he added.
As an example of this phenomenon, Kwame highlighted the lack of progress in digitalizing Ghana's passport and immigration system, despite the obvious advantages such a system would bring.