ICT

Cybersecurity company, Resecurity has announced a partnership with Ghana based Safety and Intelligence Network Africa (SINA), to advance cyber threat intelligence in Africa. In a press release copied to Ghana Business News, Resecurity says the partnership is to accelerate cybersecurity knowledge and skills transfer through training, awareness and innovative cyber …

Dr Kenneth Ashigbey, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications Friday said the chamber has moved data subscriptions from eight million to 23 million in a decade. This was a growth of over 187 per cent from its inception in 2011 to August 2021, whilst voice penetration currently …

A new study on the gig economy in Ghana shows that even though some of the platforms offer jobs to thousands of Ghanaians, the workers are paid low wages and they encounter dangerous conditions. The Fairwork report by the University of Oxford and the University of Ghana Business School, found …

Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, Minister for Agriculture has reassured that the government was leveraging on its digitalisation drive to spearhead technologically driven agriculture to empower farmers through e-agriculture. The “e-agriculture” system is a platform that enables agricultural experts, farmers and community members to exchange opinions and resources relating to agriculture for …

Mr Zakaria Tanko Musah, a legal practitioner, has called on the media to use advocacy, development and community journalism to change the narrative that Africa is a safe haven for cybercrime. He explained that though the continent records online crimes, the attention given to it by the foreign media was …

Professor Benjamin Jabez Botwe Nyarko, the Director-General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), has called for the integration of online learning into the educational system to maximise time spent outside school hours and improve learning outcomes. He said that was even more compelling with the double-track system, which would …

The troubles of Israeli technology company, NSO Group appear to be growing, as Apple sues NSO and its parent company, OSY Technologies. NSO is the developer of the malevolent software Pegasus, that has been found to have been used as a weapon against activists, political opponents and journalists, including murdered …

Some mobile money vendors have expressed displeasure over the government’s decision to charge 1.75 per cent on electronic transactions, including mobile money services effective January 1, 2022. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Juliet Edueduh, a mobile money merchant said the levy would compound the already existing financial …

The E-Commerce Association of Ghana says government’s efforts to digitize the economy would be a waste if the e-levy policy takes effect in 2022. It said, “the initiative would erode all gains made by government’s digitization agenda and be a major U-turn to the government’s vision on a Cash-lite economy.” …

Some residents in the Tamale Metropolis have expressed worry over the introduction of the new Electronic Levy (E-levy) announced in the 2022 Budget and Economic Policy. They said the E-levy, if approved by Parliament, could impoverish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who operated their businesses through electronic transactions. They said …