The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow - Bill Gates Financial innovation has long been a prominent feature of the financial industry - in the form of new products (e.g. new securities), new technology (e.g. credit scoring, ATMs or ticket machines) and new...
Laundry is a necessary chore that most people despise. The reason for this is simple: it can be time-consuming, stressful and boring. Laundry piles can appear untidy and make your to-do list seem endless. Thanks to technology advancements we now have washing machines to help put an end to the...
Digitalization with respect to private pensions is the reorganization of pension business and service delivery using Information and Communication Technologies to create digital relationships between the Trustee and the Contributor/Client (T2C); between the Trustee, Fund Manager and the Custodian (T2F2C); between the Regulator, Trustee, Fund Manager, Custodian R2T2F2C); and...
The number of startups qualifying as Unicorns (valued at over US$1bn) has grown significantly in the last year and a half. The exact percentage of Unicorns’ growth in numbers since the beginning of last year comes to 162 percent with 707 new unicorns emerging in that period. Up until the...
According to the Ghana chapter of Fairwork, a global network of researchers that evaluates the working conditions of digital platforms, it is critical for government to broaden existing labour laws to recognise and protect workers of gig-economy platforms such as Uber, Bolt and Jumia Food, among others, to prevent...
The number of start-ups qualifying as Unicorns (valued at over US$1bn) has grown significantly in the last year and a half. The exact percentage of unicorns growth in numbers since the beginning of last year comes to 162 percent, with 707 new unicorns emerging in that period. Up until the...
Huawei has been acknowledged for playing a key role in expanding mobile network connectivity to some unserved and underserved rural communities in Ghana to drive digitalisation. Huawei is the technical partner on the Rural Telephony Project which seeks to bring connectivity to over four million Ghanaians in underserved and unserved...
Huawei revealed the definition of the Next-Generation Data Centre Facility, and unveiled its new PowerPOD 3.0 data centre power supply system. The new rollouts, not only reaffirms Huawei’s commitment to building low-carbon smart data centres, it also underscores the fact that the next generation of data centres will be...
India, Mexico, and the Philippines are known prior to the covid19 pandemic as remote service delivery destinations in the world. These countries identified opportunities for creating employment for young people in their respective countries by developing their Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ecosystem. Governments all over the world in an attempt...
Mobile transactions have become ubiquitous across most economies in Africa over the past decade, which has been a pillar in bridging the financial inclusion gap as well as the financial inclusion gains witnessed in Ghana. The increased penetration of mobile money over the years has been correlated with increased...