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Traditional monitoring of coastal erosion is expensive and require more training, therefore Scientists are using drones to assess coastal erosion in Ghana. Scientists using drones to assess a project for preventing coastal erosion in Ghana have identified a need for investing in monitoring to ensure such projects effectiveness and...
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The answer to Ghana’s lack of official addresses is an app called SnooCode, which generates a unique code for each location using a computer algorithm. This code then acts as an address. Ghanaian Sesinam Dagadu (29) is what some might call an accidental entrepreneur – meaning the business created...
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Guest Contributor, Shormeh Dowuona writes about the introduction and controversy surrounding the issuance of Ghana’s quick smart National ID card, GhanaCard. One way to think about the now controversial National Identity Card project is to ask what would happen if we can’t find the US$115 million that the National...
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Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager from Google.org shares on his trip to Africa the key to understanding barriers to Mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana From the Google Africa Blog: Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager from Google.org shares on his trip to Africa (Ghana and Kenya). Google.org partnered...
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Google is out with a new internet commercial Google+ African Brothers which aims to encourage families to sign up on Google+ — Google’s social network. Google Plus is part Twitter, part Facebook and part Beluga. It gives you yet another way to build a social network and share information...
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The 2011 Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Best Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni takes us on a journey to reveal the challenges most rural children in Banda, a town in the Krachi Nchumuru District of the Volta Region face as they hope to acquire Education – a fundamental human right...
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Reports from far and near indicates that, 89 countries including Ghana and a couple of other African countries has signed the final Acts of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) of the World Conference of International Telecommunications which took place in Dubai, UAE from December 3 – 14, 2012. The...
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BarCamp Accra 2012 is a free networking event to bring people together for a day of discussion, demos and dialogue about Accra, Ghana and beyond. It hopes to assemble Accra stakeholders to network, build a supportive enterprising community and partner to build together. The event shall be held...
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The Google 2012 Zeitgeist has revealed that in the last 12 months Ghanaian search trends showed people were more interested in musicians and sport than politics, despite the country going through one of its closest general elections. Zeitgeist offers insight into the Internet and gives a unique perspective on...