By SIMON MUNTEMABATHERE is need for Zambia to become digitally fit with an integrated financial system if the country was save huge sums of money from waste inherited expenditure, Minister of Technology and Science Minister Felix Mutati has said.Mr Mutati said the country could save about $264 million per annum from waste inherited expenditure if it was to become digitally fit with an integrated financial system.The minister was speaking when he closed the Mastercard, Global Travel Wallet and Government of Zambia digital workshop held in Lusaka yesterday.He said the key driver to this digital fitness would be to have a common electronic identity for citizens to interact with various government systems.Mr Mutati said as a result of having this common electronic identity, there would be minimised inconveniences and incidents of fraud because of the multiple numbers that are inherent and carried by citizens.“You can’t have digital fitness unless you have a common identity for your […]
‘US$64 million can be saved through integrated financial system’
