The
intent is to build the requisite human resource capacity to support Ghana’s microfinance
institutions and others in the financial services industry.
Kumasi
Polytechnic, together with five other affiliates – Bolga, Tamale, Takoradi,
Cape Coast and Sunyani Polytechnics – is signing onto the gKudi software as a
training course in addition to its existing applications.
“They
are now starting with close to 600 students for the initial pilot phase and we
hope it will extend to other polytechnics, so that officially this software
will be taught in schools and by the time they leave school, they already know
how to use the solution and they’ll be adapted into the microfinance space,”
stated Derrick Dankyi, CEO of Logiciel Limited.
The gKudi platform is a relatively
low-cost real time integrated web/cloud based micro-banking platform which
enables microfinance companies and other financial institutions to manage their
client’s information and back office operations while providing a critical
source of aggregate financial data on the informal sector.
In
2013, Logiciel signed an agreement with the Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies
(GAMC) to provide mobile and cloud software solution to MFIs in the country.
Over
200 firms – representing about two-third of microfinance companies – are
currently on the gKudi platform.
Collins
Amponsah Mensah, National Chairman of GAMC, is enthused at the ability of MFIs on
the platform to keep proper records of customers and improve accountability in
fund mobilization.
“Most
of us were using different solutions but we realized that we were not getting
the needed results that we required from those solutions; we also realized that
there was the need to start standardizing our operations,” he explained the
reason for hooking unto the gKudi platform.
Mr.
Amponsah Mensah is hoping more members will subscribe to the solution,
emphasizing that “it’s going to help the industry because we have to send data
to government and most especially ease submission of Prudential Returns to the
Bank of Ghana”.
The
Association has endorsed the Logiciel-Kumasi Poly collaboration as important to
provide the needed support to the industry.
“I
believe that with this partnership, we are going to have readily developed
young men and women who will be the backbone of the industry to provide that
technical and managerial support,” said the GAMC Chair.
K-Poly
and affiliates currently run Diploma programmes in Computerized Accounting,
Banking Technology, HND Accounting with Computing and B-Tech.
The
banking applications are critical to deliver essential training to the
students.
Rector
of the Polytechnic, Prof. Nicholas Nsowah Nuamah, has described the partnership
with Logiciel as a win-win for the polytechnic and the IT firm.
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