ICT

The management of Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) has amicably resolved its labour dispute with the company’s laid-off workers over their redundancy compensation. The dispute was resolved  through an out-of-court settlement, following which all the 194 workers who were laid off last year have received their redundancy compensation under …

MTN-Ghana, the leading telecommunication firm in the Country, has reaffirmed its transitioning strategy commitment to become a fully-fledged digitalised operator by 2023. The envisioned digital repositioning, is in tandem with the company’s dedicated plan to lead the delivery of a bold new telecommunication digital evolution aimed at enhancing customer experience …

Ghana needs to pace up its efforts to join the world towards phasing out fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Mr Duncan Amoah, the Executive Secretary at the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC), has said. He noted that Ghana and many other African countries were moving at a slow pace, saying, “If …

Early this week news broke about how many individuals have been violated by their governments using Israeli tech company, NSO’s Pegasus software. An investigative journalism collaboration coordinated by the non-profit news organisation, Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International looked at a leaked data of 50,000 phone numbers from 50 countries around …

Israeli surveillance software firm NSO was hit by new allegations of targeting journalists and others in a report published by an international consortium of journalists on Sunday. IT experts found traces of attacks using NSO’s Pegasus software on 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, rights advocates and their relatives and business …

Mr  George Massih, General Manager, AshFoam Ghana, says the activities of cyber criminals are targeting the business of the furniture and bedding producing company. Mr Massih said Ashfoam as an organization had issues with cybercrime  where people have been imitating the websites, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms of …

The Bostwana police has used an Israeli company’s hacking device to extract information from a journalist’s phone looking for a source, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The same device has been obtained by the Ghana government. According to the report the police went to the village of …

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) will begin a pilot of the digital cedi in a sandbox environment in September, the First Deputy Governor of the BoG, Dr Maxwell Opoku-Afari, has said. Speaking after the opening session of a two-day training for Journalists for Business Advocacy on Understanding Monetary Policy in …

Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) Friday announced OASAL Group and Fruitflour teams as the winners of the 2020 KIC AgriTech Challenge in Accra. The winners would receive $50,000 each in seed funding and up to four years of business training, mentorship, and incubation at the Kosmos Innovation Center Hub located in …

An Accra Circuit Court has discharged Anderson Ofoshene Anim, the administrator of Empress Leaks, who allegedly used his website to publish nude pictures of persons after extorting from them. Anim was discharged by the court presided over by Mrs Susanna Edufful for want of prosecution. When the case was called, …