The United States government launched a consolidated digital platform five years after Ghana launched its own version, spearheaded by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The platform allows Americans to access government information and services online. President Donald J. Trump unveiled America.gov at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., describing it as a single digital point of entry for Americans to access federal government information and services. According to the White House fact sheet, America.gov is a secure, AI-powered portal that allows citizens to sign in, ask questions in plain language, and receive accurate answers based on official government sources. It offers transactions like passport renewal and Medicare enrollment. The platform is free to use and has no advertisements. The administration says it will bring together information spread across some 29,000 federal websites. The homepage reads: ‘Hello, America. Whatever you need from government, start here.’ The launch comes more than five years after Ghana took a similar step in 2022 when Dr. Bawumia launched Ghana.Gov. Dr. Bawumia said the successful rollout was a culmination of strategic digital pillars the Akufo-Addo government had built since 2017, including the Ghana Card, Digital Address System, Mobile Money Interoperability, expansion of TIN numbers, and digitization of operations at the ports, DVLA, passport office and others. While Ghana.Gov focused heavily on revenue collection, America.gov, with AI at its core, powered by Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok, is being introduced with AI at its core, aimed at simplifying citizen engagement with government.
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