SML Innovation Attracting Global Interest – Prof. Boateng

SML official’s and guests at the 5^th anniversary celebration

 

Africa’s first-ever appointed Professor in Supply and Value Chain Management, Professor Douglas Boateng, has highlighted the significant contribution of the Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) fused data platform to revenue generation in the country.

Speaking as an independent monitor of the platform’s activities, Prof. Boateng said the system stands out as a generational innovation with both local relevance and global significance.

“It is for this reason why other countries are closely monitoring what is happening in Ghana and the steps being taken to shore up revenue collection for long-term national development,” he said.

A global academic and technical consortium is also being convened to study SML’s data capturing platform.

The international study slated to begin in the third quarter 2025 will involve collaboration with institutions such as Ghana’s University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) and academic and technical partners across North America, Europe, and Africa.

The consortium will include experts in engineering, systems automation, digital governance, economics, public-private partnerships, and policy development. Its goal is to produce a global case study that captures both the technical innovation and the institutional learnings from Ghana’s experience with the SML platform.

SML’s fused data platform, which integrates real-time insights across oil, gas, telecommunications, water, and downstream petroleum sites, is gaining attention not just for its operational performance but also for what it symbolises: a transformational solution engineered within an emerging economy and built by Africans for Africans.

The platform’s real-time capabilities have already enhanced revenue assurance for the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), with independent reviews, such as the 2024 KPMG assessment, affirming its technical credibility and fiscal contribution.

Speaking at the 5^th Anniversary celebration of SML in Accra, Prof Boateng said SML’s fused multi-site data capturing platform is not just a good opportunity; “it is a generational innovation with the power to reshape how Africa governs, minimises revenue leakages, secures, and scales its industrial future toward 2030 and Agenda 2063.”

He said it is a home-grown system, capable of capturing, synchronising, and analysing live data across multiple industrial sites, from oilfields to telecom towers, from petrochemical plants to water systems.

“This is not innovation by import. This is innovation by intention, determination and perseverance,” he added.

Prof Boateng added that over the past 18 months of monitoring SML’s development closely, in consultation with experts from the UK, Canada, South Africa, and the USA, evidence is clear that the company’s fused platform, until the end of the third quarter of 2024, was the only known system in an emerging economy operating at scale with proven multi-site, real-time data capture functionality.

“This is not merely a national achievement. As these selected global experts cautiously affirmed, pending further research, it could indeed represent a global first.

Let us not allow the occasional partisan fog to blind us to the strategic light and opportunities available to assist the Finance Ministry, the Revenue Collection Authority, and various planning agencies effectively budget and plan using real-time and accurate data,” he said.

From copper belts in Zambia to oil ports in Nigeria and energy corridors in Kenya, SML’s model offers scalable applications that could transform how African states secure, measure, and govern their industrial value chains.

“The goal is to separate the noise from the substance—to distinguish between a lack of understanding around evolving risk-reward business models and the evidence-based value of a working system,” Boateng noted.

 

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