Cybertech Global 2020: Ghana highly represented as event ends on high note

Ghana was heavily represented at Cybertech Global 2020 which came to an end last weekend. Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful led a powerful delegation which included National Cybersecurity advisor Dr Albert Antwi-Boasiako. There was also...

Suspended NPP Vice chair Ekow Ewusi arrested over missing excavators

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s Central Regional Vice Chairman, Horace Ekow Ewusi, over missing excavators seized in the clampdown on illegal...

How computers wrote BBC election result stories

For the first time, BBC News published a news story for every constituency that declared election results overnight - all written by a computer. It was the BBC's biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far. Each...

ExpressPay gets certification on PCI-DSS Level 1 and ISO 27001

ExpressPay, a leading Fintech in Ghana has been certified on both ISO 27001:2013 and PCI-DSS Level 1 after a rigorous audit process. ISO 27001 is a global information security framework from the International Standards Organization...

Twitter prepares for huge cull of inactive users

Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline. The cull will include users who stopped posting to the site because...

Aftown Music App launches V2 with Music concert

Ghana’s premier music streaming platform just marked its third year in the business of bringing seamless audio and visual content to its subscribers through its streaming app available for android and IOS. In just three...

Meet the founder and CEO of Shopnaw – Benjamin Osei Asante

Benjamin Osei Asante, a proud Ghanaian IT expert with rich industry experience is set to bring e-commerce platform to the doorsteps of Ghanaians. He has worked with both local companies and multinationals on various...

Ecoligo enables 401 kWp solar plant for Central University

The Central University College has started using electricity generated from solar at its Miotso Campus at Dawhenya in the Greater Accra Region. The project is a 401 kilowatt PV plant that was financed by ecoligo,...

ICT competition for girls ‘Ms. Geek Ghana’ launched

The Ministry of Communications (MoC) in collaboration with the NCA and the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications has launched the Ghana version of the internationally acclaimed ICT competition for young girls’ dubbed ‘Ms....

Global Microsoft 365 developer Bootcamp slated for Oct. 26

The Global Microsoft 365 developer Bootcamp is back after the success of the 2018 edition held in 41 countries with over 3,400 attendees. The 2019 edition is expanding beyond Office 365 to Microsoft 365 platform...