Technology

MTN Ghana has intensified efforts to support entrepreneurs and small business owners with practical knowledge and digital skills to help them grow and improve their businesses.

Ghanaian technology company AO Holdings has been named Microsoft AI Business Solutions Partner of the Year 2025 and Azure Partner of the Year 2025 for West Africa, strengthening its position in the region’s enterprise technology and digital transformation space.

Entrepreneurs are being urged to move beyond the basic use of digital platforms and adopt artificial intelligence (AI), digital payments, and e-commerce tools to cut costs, reach new customers, and compete in regional markets.

Last Friday, during my appearance on JoyFM TV, I reflected on a question that is becoming increasingly urgent for African leaders: we have spent considerable time discussing what artificial intelligence can do, but are our organisations actually ready to use it well? This matters because the global AI conversation is changing. The issue is no longer simply adoption. It is value.

Ghanaian technology company introduces livestream commerce platform combining shopping, payments and integrated logistics

Artificial intelligence (AI) could allow developing countries to do in a decade what might otherwise take a century—provided that governments act swiftly to close the gaps in power, connectivity, skills, and institutional quality that threaten to leave them behind, according to the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence.