What do I mean by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution? With all the AI hype, it is worth explaining it again from my point of view. Coined by Stanford University researcher John McCarthy, AI is the ability of a machine or a computer to think and learn - and...
… What you need to know
Fintech (i.e. financial technology) refers to technology developed to improve and automate financial services. Examples include mobile banking, mobile payment application software, peer-to-peer payment services such as PayPal and Venmo, trading platforms such as Robinhood, and the use and development of cryptocurrencies such as...
In my opinion, the benefits of blockchain are being paraded as akin to that of cryptocurrencies and while to a large extent that is accurate, from the few conversations I have had over the past weeks, there needs to be an urgent understanding of each of them, and both....
As part of its ambitious strategy for instant and frictionless transactions, SWIFT announces a new capability that uses its global intelligence on past cross-border flows to predict potential problems before new international payments are sent.
The new service analyses previous flows on the SWIFT network to identify accounts that have...
Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo-Maafo, says Ghana’s economic recovery and transformation agenda hugely depends on the extent of government’s digitalisation drive’s permeation into the country’s public institutions.
As a result, the Office of the Senior Presidential Advisor presented information technology equipment and accessories to three public sector institutions as part...
$250,000 BUSD donation will fund a six-month pilot project to empower women with the knowledge and skills to thrive in a Web3 future.
First courses taking place in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and Cape Town, South Africa, in October, this year.
Binance Charity, the philanthropic arm of Binance, the...
…Nigeria’s highest payments processing license
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has been granted a Switching and Processing License by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) — widely regarded as CBN’s most valuable payments processing license. This license allows Flutterwave to offer transaction switching and card processing services to customers....
Onyin Technologies, a financial technology firm (Fintech), has officially introduced two applications onto the market.
The applications are NOS, a business management and payment application to help business owners to manage their stock, sales and revenues; and SAIR, which helps business owners to pay for goods and services abroad.
“At Onyin...
Exploring Agritech Opportunities for Employment
Agritech or technology deployment in Agriculture is another major area of employment if properly harnessed since Agriculture is the mainstay of the Ghanaian economy. It employs about 45 percent of the population and contributes to about 19.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)....
The Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) President, Ing. Rev. Prof. Charles Anum Adams, has said there is a need to digitalise public procurement processes in the construction, infrastructure and engineering sectors to increase transparency and get rid of corruption.
Ing. Rev. Prof. Adams said this when delivering a welcome address...