as telecom giant begins cyber-security awareness campaign MTN Ghana has joined the global community to create awareness on cyber-security with a focus on Senior High Schools across the country. The campaign officially began at the Labone Senior High School, and is expected to be replicated nation-wide. Addressing students at the...
In this great big world of digitisation seemingly on steroids, and innovations springing up faster than mushrooms overnight after a good soft rain, it is more than easy to be considered out of fashion and outside of the spectrum of useful and technological applications. Yet somehow, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data...
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (GI-KACE) has organised an Artificial Intelligence (AI) knowledge series forum on music, entertainment, culture and the creative arts. The event, which took place at the auditorium of the centre on Thursday, September 29, brought together several students, innovators, stakeholders and industry...
… as Morrison Records Bureau launches operations in Ghana Given the rise in cybercrimes and insider attacks, experts have emphasised the importance for public and private organisations to prioritise efficient background and data checking in their recruitment processes. Data from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) indicates that staff involved in...
Vodafone Business has partnered with Onix Data Centres to support businesses with high-speed connectivity and the colocation of essential infrastructure. Colocation hosting, which is a tried and trusted approach to managing technology infrastructure, allows organisations to locate their server, network equipment and storage in a specialist third-party data centre. The Accra-based...
Ghana has at the end of third-quarter this year recorded a total 9,769 contacts of which 431 were actual cybersecurity incidents, acting Director General of the Cyber Security Authority (CSA), Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, has revealed. Of the total number, 5,389 of the attacks are classified as direct advisories, a situation...
Slamm Technologies Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) to provide practical hands-on training in the area of cybersecurity operations, penetration testing, digital forensics, malware analysis, and reverse engineering among others for students. The MoU was executed on behalf of the two...
The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has reiterated that equitable connectivity is vital and can support the country’s economic transformation. She said this in an address at the 2022 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference held in Bucharest, Romania, where she reiterated the country’s commitment to championing the...
The charity arm of Vodafone Ghana, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), has launched the first-ever STEM Teacher Awards in Ghana. The launch event, marked by a brief ceremony at the premises of Ghana Education Service on Wednesday 28th September 2022, also served as a stage to highlight...
Ghana, on the 25th September, 2022, was elected Chair of the Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG) for a four-year term in Bucharest, Romania. The CIG, which is made up of fifty-four (54) Commonwealth countries, meets periodically to establish a set of objectives to be achieved at various conferences and meetings of...