{"id":211939,"date":"2025-10-30T20:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-build-on-countrys-strong-record-on-mobile-digital-currency-innovation-us-professor-urges-government\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:34:01","slug":"ghana-build-on-countrys-strong-record-on-mobile-digital-currency-innovation-us-professor-urges-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-build-on-countrys-strong-record-on-mobile-digital-currency-innovation-us-professor-urges-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Build On Country&#8217;s Strong Record On Mobile, Digital Currency Innovation &#8211; US Professor Urges Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Ghana has been urged to build on its strong record in mobile innovation and central bank digital currency development to become a leader in shaping Africa&#8217;s digital financial future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to a United States-based consultant and Professor of Intellectual Property and New Technologies, <strong>Professor Tonya M. Evans<\/strong>, the country&#8217;s leadership in mobile money and central bank digital currency has positioned it to drive continental change in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">She made the remarks at the <strong>Digital&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510300268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has been urged to build on its strong record in mobile innovation and central bank digital currency development to become a leader in shaping Africa&#8217;s digital financial future. According to a United States-based consultant and Professor of Intellectual Property and New Technologies, Professor Tonya M. Evans, the country&#8217;s leadership in mobile money and central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6935,7216,9987,9633,4508,4509,6427,7467,6261,257,9629,5267,254,6948,6810],"class_list":["post-211939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-build","tag-countrys","tag-currency","tag-digital","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-government","tag-innovation","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-professor","tag-record","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}