The governments of Burkina Faso and Ghana opened a week-long high-level meeting on human resource management and institutional cross-learning, aimed at exploring ways to cooperate to reform their public sectors through advanced human resource (HR) capacity building and the integration of digital innovation into public service.
The meeting is the first international edition and the10th edition of the HR Cafe, organized annually by the government of Burkina Faso and held in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to deepen cooperation between the two neighboring countries.
Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, deputy chief of staff at the office of the Ghanaian president, who opened the conference, highlighted the long-standing diplomatic relations between Ghana and Burkina Faso.
According to her, beyond structural and digital reforms, the human element within public administration, with indiscipline, professional misconduct, and sheer nonchalance, constitutes some of the greatest threats facing the public sector
The deputy chief of staff acknowledged the potential huge impact that digital technology, including artificial intelligence, can make in the quest to eliminate bureaucratic bottlenecks and improve efficiency in the public sector.
Bampoe Addo highlighted the need for governments to ensure that technology serves as an enabler rather than a master, while aggressively rooting out workplace laxity and professional nonchalance, as public institutions rapidly embrace artificial intelligence and digital governance.
Sandwidi Ousmane, head of Burkina Faso’s organizing committee, urged the two countries to strengthen human capital capacity, explore the role of artificial intelligence, and promote administrative knowledge-sharing for faster development. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
