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The Ministry of Communications and the Ghana Investment for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) have signed a financing agreement for the rural network project.

The Ministry of Communications through the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched the Child Online Protection Reporting Portal to enhance the country’s preventive and reactive interventions in addressing child online safety issues.

Telecom giant, MTN Ghana, has cautioned its numerous customers and mobile money agents against the activities of cyber fraudsters.

Ghana has so far recorded a total of 11,550 cases of cybercrimes since launching its Cybercrime Incident Reporting Points of Contact (PoC) in October 2019.

The MTN Foundation is to spend more than 10.4 million cedis on 10 on-going projects across the country to support Ghana’s infrastructure development.

Mats Granryd, director general of the GSMA, revealed plans to bring the company’s popular MWC series to Africa in 2021, which he backed to become the continent’s most influential technology event.

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita emphasised the importance of a thoughtful approach towards Industry 4.0 as a way to prevent widening of digital access inequality, and called for a social compact between businesses, governments and broader society.

Mobile telecommunications operator, MTN Ghana has indicated that it plans to roll out its Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to check Mobile Money (MoMo) fraud from the first quarter of 2020.

Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications, has said achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 could not be possible if girls and women were left behind in the development agenda.

MTN Nigeria has equipped locally owned small businesses with skills on sales and marketing in a training featuring leading industry experts, as part of the ongoing The Revv Programme.