Subah introduces digital innovative solutions
Stacks of files and other documents can now be digitised for easy referencing and to save space as a result of an innovative programme that has been developed by Subah Infosolutions Ltd, an information technology (IT) and telecommunications solution provider in Ghana.
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This is one of several innovations that have been introduced by the digital company to deal with some of the challenges that most corporate organisations face.
The innovations were made known to stakeholder organisations in the IT sector at a corporate breakfast meeting in Accra, organised by Subah Infosolutions last Wednesday.
In attendance were representatives of the the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), banking, informal banking and insurance sectors and other corporate organisations.
Digitisation
Presenting an overview of Suba Infosolutions’ operations and capabilities, Mr Redeemer Kwame, General Manager, Business Development, said the company had developed innovations such as revenue assurance, banking solutions, document digitisation and set-top boxes and partnered other organisations where its capabilities fell short.
He said the company had already embarked on a digitisation project for the Ghana Education Service (GES), which involves the scanning and storing in servers in six months 250,000 files with a total of 4.7 million sheets of paper.
Mr Kwame also said the company was ready to assemble set-top boxes locally for people who would not be able to migrate digitally because they could not afford flat screen televisions, adding “our research has shown that there are about 4.5 million households with television sets that would not be able to receive signals when there is a migration from analogue to digital.”
National single window
The Chief Revenue Officer of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Mr Fechine Akoto, said as a result of the introduction of a national single window for traders, a total cost of $1,350, which was incurred by importers, had reduced to $850.
He said a research by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), had shown that whether exporting or importing, one needed to sign about 40 documents that dealt with about 200 data elements or information required by those documents.
“With these documents, 15 per cent of them are repeated 30 times and 60 to 70 per cent are repeated more than once,” he said.
Mr Akoto explained that with the single window initiative, traders no longer had to deal with 21 agencies at the ports that had to process their documents but that they could now lodge the information required only once, to save cost and time.
In his welcome address, the Managing Director of Subah Infosolutions, Mr Birendra Sasmal, said Ghana needed to move to a cashless society like the advanced countries, which could be made possible with innovative solutions of his company such as the cloud application.