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GHANA’S PUBLIC SECTOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: BEYOND KPIs TOWARDS AN AGILE MIND-RESET

  INTRODUCTION Modern government was built on measurement. The metrics that enabled the state to scale, standardise, and control complex administrative systems were once among its greatest strengths. In the era of digital transformation, however, those same metrics risk holding it back. Today, digital transformation is not just a technical exercise — it is a mindset reset. While governments often focus on digitising services or adopting new tools, the deeper challenge lies in how institutions think, learn, and adapt. In Ghana, the President’s RESET Agenda signals a bold ambition to reimagine how the state delivers public value. But that ambition cannot be achieved through legacy performance systems built for predictability and control. It requires a shift — from managing for compliance to governing for learning. And that shift begins with an Agile mind-reset. For decades, the public sector has relied on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure accountability, consistency, ...
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RETHINKING THE CYBERSECURITY AMENDMENT BILL: INTEGRATION AND COLLABORATION, NOT DUPLICATION

  INTRODUCTION As Ghana moves to update its digital governance through the Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, it is crucial to ask whether the proposed reforms solve a real gap — or simply create legal clutter. While the bill aims to strengthen cybersecurity regulation, it does so by expanding the powers of the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) in ways that risk undermining the coherence of our criminal justice system. The proposed amendments would give the CSA powers to investigate, arrest, and even prosecute cybercrime — roles traditionally handled by the Ghana Police Service and the Office of the Attorney-General. These new mandates not only replicate existing functions but blur institutional boundaries that exist for good reason:  accountability, oversight, and separation of powers. More fundamentally, the bill reflects a troubling trend: the assumption that every digitally mediated harm must be treated as a new, standalone offence. This is legally unn...
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