Decentralise investment info, says Mutsvangwa
GOVERNMENT should expedite the decentralisation of information as part of efforts to enhance the ease of doing business, an official has said.
Speaking at the launch of the Manicaland investment magazine recently, Special Advisor to the President Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa (pictured right) said local and foreign investors should not travel to Harare to get information when the same can be made accessible on the internet.
“Information should be decentralised. You should not have to go to Harare to access information that you can easily get whilst you are here in Mutare.
“If I can know what is going on in Asia from here, why should I then have to travel to Harare to know what is happening in Mutare when I am already here?” said Ambassador Mutsvangwa.
“Government should always have that information ready when potential businesspeople come. As business, your task will only be to make decisions from that information, which Government would have made available to you. With internet, you can use the information from anywhere. Time is money in business,” he said.
Investors, he said, should be able to take advantage of opportunities arising in Zimbabwe.
“We must excite the world, we must show the world we have a presence on the global market,” said Ambassador Mutsvangwa.
Government has been implementing ease of doing business reforms as a way of attracting investment into the country.
In March, Ambassador Mutsvangwa told delegates at an investment conference in Mutare that Government was working on establishing investment committees, which would make it easy for investors to access information without moving from one office to another.
“We want decisions made in hours for an investor. Don’t make them wonder around in hotels asking where to go.
“The decision-making process must be resolute and precise so that investors will feel free to give us money,” he said.