The Institute of Information Management (IIM) Africa, is set to hold the second edition of its annual convention and 21st Induction/Investiture ceremony in Accra, Ghana.
IIM is a professional Institute promoting Information Management in Africa.
The 2019 Ghana Annual Convention is under the theme: ‘Strategy For Data-driven Healthcare management innovation in the 21st Century’.
A paper on the theme is expected to be presented by Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Minister for Health, Ghana.
The convention provides a platform for professionals from different walks of life to gather and discuss issues bothering on effective management of data, information, record, document, and contents, as it relates to healthcare and other different fields of human endeavor including the practice and application of information to people, process, and technology.
Chairman of the Council of IIM, Ambassador Oyedokun Ayodeji Oyewole, was quoted in a news release issued by IIM as saying “in the twenty-first century, information is the force powering our democracy and our economy.”
He said both the private and the public sectors will increasingly rely on information and knowledge, and create value through their ability to manage these valuable assets.
He added that successful societies and economies in the future will depend on how well they enable information to be appropriately shared while maintaining essential protection for those on whose behalf the information is held.
According to him, they will depend on how well they learn from the information they hold, and how they use it to create new value, and on how well they deal with the new challenges that digital transformation presents, whether around security, sustainability or privacy”
He further stated that effective management and sharing of information has the power to improve individuals’ lives and society as a whole, and even to drive economic growth which comes with significant responsibilities, not least to protect individuals’ data and privacy.
BY Melvin Tarlue