The Minority in Parliament claims that the upcoming 2018 Budget to be presented by the Finance Minister on Wednesday, 15th November,2017 is expected to contain a tax on mobile money transactions.
According to the spokesperson for Minority on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, government has the intention to tax mobile...
There has been a series of attacks on web based applications in Ghana in recent times. In the past three years, Ghanaian organizations and agencies, most especially government agencies have experienced severe cyber-attacks.
Most organizations in the country operate their web based applications without protecting the HTML codes. HTML (Hypertext...
As part of the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Week, the British Council, Ghana is hosting its second Social Thursday seminar for the year on Thursday, 16 November, 2017 from 6pm - 8pm on the theme “Teching” Social Enterprises in a Digital Age.
The goal of the seminar is to expose social enterprise leaders to transformational...
A research team from the University of Ghana, led by Professor Richard Boateng, Head of Department of Management Information Systems at the university’s business school, has held a roundtable discussion aimed at assessing the use of cloud computing in Ghana’s public sector.
Held under the theme: ‘Infrastructure and policy environment...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been charged to take advantage of the numerous opportunities afforded by technology to increase the tax to GDP ratio, and thereby help reduce the country’s dependency on aid and donor support.
“The country’s tax to Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ratio, which is quite alarming,...
Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Dr. Wilfred K. Anim Odame, has said that its upcoming digital system, dubbed the Ghana Enterprise Land Information System (GELIS), is one of the key interventions designed to reduce the turnaround time, bureaucracies and corruption in the system.
According to him, the GELIS innovation...
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“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity” - Albert Einstein
Dear Readers, I hope you had a good week and are ready to face another week. My last article was not to create passions among bank staff, but rather generate discussions on the...
itel, one of Ghana’s fastest emerging mobile phone brands has launched two of its sophisticated mobile phones on the Ghanaian market as part as its celebrates 10years of providing a cutting edge mobile devices to users of their products.
The S32 currently itel's best most impressive dual selfie camera mobile...
During the middle part of this year 2017, Ecobank Ghana laid off 181 contract staff with the reason that it is part of a digital migration strategy to improve banking experience for its clients, according to the Regional Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing at Ecobank, Patricia Sappor.
She said,...
Slydepay, a locally-developed electronic payments platform, has launched “Pay like a Boss" campaign to enable individuals, businesses, and institutions receive and send payments across a variety of channels including mobile phones, bank accounts, and payment cards (VISA & MasterCard).
Speaking at the launch in Accra, Mr. Derrydean Dadzie, CEO of...