Category: TECHNOLOGY
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Republic Bank launches new mobile app and other digital services
Republic Bank (Ghana) PLC, a subsidiary of Republic Financial Holdings Limited has launched its new and technology advanced mobile app, USSD application and Internet Banking Service. Speaking at the launch of the digital services of the Bank, the Managing Director of Republic Bank, Farid Antar touted the Bank’s new and improved digital services as the…
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Digitization agenda: Collaboration vital to growth of Ghana’s fintech space – Bawumia
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has highlighted the need for a unified effort between stakeholders in Ghana’s fintech space in pushing the use of the universal QR code. This, he said, will fast-track the achievement of the cash-lite agenda. Ghana is currently going through a digital transformation under the leadership of the government spearheaded by…
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Standard Chartered MD highlights bank’s commitment in making Ghana technology hub
Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank, Mansa Nettey, has reiterated her outfit’s commitment to contributing to making Ghana a technology and digital hub. This forms part of efforts in pushing the government’s digitalization agenda. ”We will continue to leverage our status as a leading trade bank to create a fairer global economy and sustainable growth…
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Jumia Ghana launches 9th edition of ‘Jumia Black Friday’ promotion sales
Africa’s leading e-commerce platform, Jumia, has launched the 9th edition of its “Jumia Black Friday” to offer customers, products at discounted prices. The ninth edition of the promotion sales dubbed ‘’It’s Black Friday every day’ which runs from November 5th to 28th, will see Jumia put up for sale, products from more than 20 top…
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful wins Digital Leader of the Year award at GITTA 2021
The Minister for Communications and Digitization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has been awarded the Digital leader of the year at the 11th Ghana Information Technology & Telecom Awards (GITTA 2021). The Digital Leader of the Year Award is in recognition of her role in driving digitalization in Ghana as well as her role as Minister of Communications…
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Banks, fintechs must educate customers on need to use e-cash – GhIPSS
The Chief Executive of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPSS), a subsidiary of the Bank of Ghana, Mr. Archie Hesse, has called for increased education and active usage of available cashless payment solutions to help reduce the number of robbery attacks on persons carrying huge sums of cash. There has been an uptick…
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SIM card re-registration process satisfactory so far – Ursula
The Minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has described the SIM card re-registration process as satisfactory so far. “It’s early days yet, and we are continuously monitoring the process, but it’s satisfactory. People are at least signing up for the first stage of the project. So far, even on Day 1, I think they…
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Communications Ministry partners Digital Transformation Centre to promote inclusive digital economy
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation and the Digital Transformation Center by GIZ Ghana, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement is intended to guide the partnership between the two parties to achieve an inclusive digital economy and society. Under this shared vision, every citizen, notably women and young people…
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Global social media outage: Ghanaian IT professionals urged to develop Apps to serve Africa
Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful wants Ghanaian youth in the technology space to see the outage experienced by Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook as an opportunity to create similar communication apps the country can rely on. For over six hours on Monday, the whole world suffered an outage on three major social media apps,…
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back online after widespread outage
Social media giants–Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back online after a widespread outage on Monday, October 4, 2021. The social media apps were offline for about six hours. They used Twitter to update their subscribers on the development. A lot of people took to Twitter to make jokes about the situation, as the impact of…