Stakeholders have called for the implementation of policies and regulations that will enhance the participation of Ghanaian women in the digital financial ecosystem.
Continue readingThe CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr Kenneth Ashigbey, has called for a collaborative partnership between private and public sector organisations to keep the annual coding caravan going.
Continue readingAs part of its unwavering commitment to providing top-notch Fixed Broadband (FBB) internet services to customers, Vodafone Ghana has launched an exciting new offer for new broadband customers.
The offer empowers new customers to harness the power of ultra-fast and reliable internet with more data, exceptional savings, and a seamless online experience.
Albert Achiaw, the Fixed Business Manager at Vodafone Ghana, highlighted the benefits of the new offer.
“This offer gives new customers more data and a fast, reliable internet connection. If they choose a plan worth GH¢300 or more, they’ll get 50 per cent extra data for 30 days. And if they pay three months upfront, we’ll install the service for free.
It’s a great chance to get more value, so I encourage new customers to take up this offer,” he said.
Source: Ghanaian Times
The management of Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Ghana has encouraged Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to effectively use merchant numbers in transactions for convenience.
Continue readingThe Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications in partnership with the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professionals, Ghana have trained 200 pupils and 70 teachers in schools in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern region on the fundamentals of coding and programming to help them design applications.
The training, which was part of a two-year coding caravan the two organizations have embarked on, was purposed to create digital awareness among the pupils, especially those in the rural areas and equip them with basic ICT skills and digital tools that would help them come up with business ideas to solve societal problems.
The pupils were trained in coding, 3D printing, animations, and development of applications, among other skills by ICT Instructors who took them through the training.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr Ing Kenneth Ashigbey said for the country to be transformed, it was critical for it to take advantage of the 4th Industrial Revolution where the country should ride on Artificial Intelligence or the use of digital transformation tools to solve societal issues.
He revealed that for that reason, his outfit has partnered with the Institute of ICT Professionals and has for the past two years embarked on a coding caravan to train pupils in schools across the country, especially those in the rural areas to train them on coding and the use of digital tools to create business ideas to solve societal issues.
“We chose the rural or remote areas to give pupils in those areas the opportunity to also learn this technological skill so that they will be empowered to use the skills learnt to solve their community problems and there will be no need to travel to urban areas before such problems are solved,” he said.
It was his hope that the training would inflame a hunger for technological skills in the pupils who would in turn train others to adopt the skills for business purposes.
Dr Ing Kenneth Ashigbey stated that an ICT and Coding Laboratory would be set up soon by the member of parliament for the area, revealing that the laboratory would be a center to train and polish more pupils and revealed competition on coding would be held among pupils who would be encouraged to bring up interesting business ideas that could be harnessed to solve societal problems for the development of the country.
For his part, the Executive Director of the Institute of ICT Professionals, Dr David Gowu indicated that the country has over 50 percent of young people who could be trained and given such coding skills using digital tools to enable them to solve the many societal issues and cause the development of the country.
He indicated that such empowerment of the young generation was necessary if the country wanted to transform into a first-class country.
Mr Gowu called on stakeholders in the private and government sector, as well as philanthropists to pull resources together and help to provide more computers for pupils to enhance their learning and practice.
Source: Ama Tekyiwaa Ampadu Agyeman (The Spectator)
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, in collaboration with the Institute of ICT Professionals, has trained 212 young people in new information and communication technology.
Continue readingThe Minister of Communications and Digitalisation (MoCD), Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has reiterated the government’s commitment to bridging the gender gap in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the country.
Continue readingLast week Wednesday, on the 19th of July 2023, the Coding Caravan made its way to the Dawhenya Methodist A & B Basic School, leaving a trail of excitement and learning in its wake. This educational initiative, a joint effort between the Institute of ICT Professionals, Ghana (IIPGH), and the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, seeks to promote Coding education through its coding caravan awareness program.
Continue readingThe Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, in partnership with the Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH), organized yet another exciting event called the Coding Caravan. The event kicked off on Thursday, July 13, 2023, at the St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Agona Swedru.
Continue readingMrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Thursday said, the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), currently has no plans of erecting masts in the Cape Coast North Constituency.
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