The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has stressed the need for the Civil Service to adapt to automation, artificial intelligence, and e-governance to remain relevant in a fast-developing technology space.In his view, the Civil Service remains the backbone of effective governance and national development."The Civil Service remains the backbone of effective governance and national development.
It is the invisible hand that facilitates the visible success of every government policy," Julius Debrah stated.Mr Debrah said this at the 2024 Civil Service Awards Ceremony held on July 25, 2025 in Accra.According to him, government's programmes and policies would come to naught without an effective Civil Service; hence the need to give it the needed support to function well."You give effect to the policy intentions of government," he added.The Chief of Staff underscored the importance of digital transformation, if Ghana was to keep up the pace of development.He said President John Dramani Mahama's administration's commitment to establish Ghana as the Artificial Intelligence Hub of Africa for effective governance was unflinching."The government has placed digital transformation at the heart of its national agenda," he emphasized.He entreated staff of the Civil Service to continually acquire digital skills, to be able to fit into the demands of their mandate."Today's Civil Service is no longer limited to filing paperwork or manually processing applications.
The modern Civil Service staff must therefore be digitally literate, data-driven, and agile," he noted.Leading the digital revolution, he said, is the responsibility of the Civil Service to meet demands of the future as government works on creating the right environment for them to thrive in their job."The future will not wait, the digital revolution is not coming, instead, it is already here.
The question is, will the Ghana Civil Service lead it, or follow it?
