{"id":5060,"date":"2024-05-13T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:35:34","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%ad-ghana-to-become-the-first-african-government-to-use-blockchain-technology-to-combat-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5060","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded Ghana to become the first African government to use blockchain technology to combat corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Blockchain technology can identify and detect any changes in digital data to track governmental transactions. Implementing this measure will enhance transparency and empower the government to eradicate corruption, the country&#8217;s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia explained.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he urged African anti-corruption agencies to implement digital forensics and tools as they will help trace and distract the corruption value chain. The continent&#8217;s anti-graft institutions should also develop dedicated security operations centers to fight corruption networks.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, according to Bawumia, Ghana will fight corruption more effectively once the Central Bank introduces Central Bank Digital Currency, or e-Cedi since \u201cit will make it easy to track the movements of money and identify suspicious activities.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain technology can identify and detect any changes in digital data to track governmental transactions. Implementing this measure will enhance transparency and empower the government to eradicate corruption, the country&#8217;s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia explained. Furthermore, he urged African anti-corruption agencies to implement digital forensics and tools as they will help trace and distract the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}