Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday 26 February 2024 - President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates today met with His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of
Sierra Leone, to discuss ties between their two countries and ways to enhance them further.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday 13 February 2024 - Chief Minister of Sierra Leone, Dr David Moinina Sengeh, has told the ‘Government
Services Forum’ at the World Government Summit in Dubai that Sierra Leone is using technology and innovation for public service delivery and to improve the lives of citizens.
Dr. Sengeh mentioned that Sierra Leone had built digital solutions like a USSD dictionary to compliment books and deployed an SMS result checker that had been
used close to five million times across the country, while adding that mobile connectivity had also been expanded to cover nearly 90% of the population. He said that they had also developed a mobile
artificial intelligence Chat GPT to help teachers deliver better content to students.
The former Basic Education Minister noted that Sierra Leone’s digital experience showed that when deployed appropriately, technology was not only a catalyst to
transform service delivery but also a public good and great leveler for development, adding that the introduction of the SMS result checker had helped parents and pupils check their examination
results for free and instantaneously no matter their location.
“During COVID-19 school closures, we used the hybrid technologies to ensure our children did not fall further behind even as we were among the first set of
countries to re-open schools safely. We know that to compete globally, we must use digitalization as a core enabler for national development,” he said.
The Chief Minister furthered that as part of President Bio’s digital transformation, Sierra Leone had introduced technology in revenue mobilization to reduce
corruption and bureaucracies or register businesses and corporate services to make public services more efficient and reasonable for all.
“The Ministry of Agriculture is already digitalizing agricultural services, offering farmers access to critical information, market data, weather forecasts, and
best agricultural practices directly to their phones. We believe that this will empower farmers to make informed decisions, enhance productivity and promote sustainable agricultural practices that
will enable us to ultimately feed Sierra Leone,” he noted.
Other notable speakers at the event included H.E Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia and H.E Mohamed Bin Taliah, Chief of the UAE
Government Services.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday 12 February 2024 - Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr David Moinina Sengeh
has delivered a keynote address at the ongoing World Governments Summit in Dubai, highlighting President Dr. Julius Maada Bio’s ‘Big Five’ Agenda.
Dr Sengeh said that Sierra Leone was one of the leading global spenders in education which had significantly increased school
enrollment, improved learning outcomes and provided opportunities for all including girls and children with disabilities. He affirmed government’s commitment to improve on the gains made in
education as a sustainable foundation for growth and development.
He also noted that as part of President Bio’s Human Capital Development drive, the government had launched the ‘Feed Salone’ initiative
to improve local food production, expand on food value chains, provide jobs for women and youth especially those in rural areas and support overall economic growth.
“We have created a platform through radical inclusion so everybody can show up and contribute to national development. 70% of our
population is youthful so we have to ensure that people are learning the right skills to get jobs so that they can add value to the economy. We cannot do that if the public sector is not reformed.
So, we have the public sector reform to ensure that what we do can go all the way to benefit the people in a just and equitable way. The final piece is innovation and infrastructure, so that is why
it is really wonderful that this is the theme of the summit,”
“We are thinking bigger so we have a seven-year Medium National Development Plan which aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals
2030. President Bio has set a real standard for leadership by appointing women and young people in critical and flagship portfolios. It is important that we can have women and young people take up
important portfolios,” he said.
Earlier today, Dr. Sengeh also met with H.E. Mohamed Bin Taliah, Chief of the UAE Government Services, where they both explored several
collaborative and transformative ways of improving public service delivery.
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