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How to: Set up and use Google’s new “selfie video” verification
Google has rolled out a new way to sign in to — or recover — your Google Account: a “selfie video” verification feature. Instead of relying only on passwords, recovery emails, or a trusted device, you can now authenticate using a short video of your face. It’s aimed squarely at one of the most common support nightmares...
Gabby Otchere-Darko writes: Ubuntu, Afrophobia and Africa’s unfinished struggle for unity
This month the news about Africa continues to centre around the disturbing images from South Africa circulating worldwide on social media. Not even the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi could shift that. African migrants attacked, their shops looted, people chased, assaulted and blamed simply for being from another Afri...
Yango is expanding into 10 new African markets with $150m war chest
While international ride-hailing heavyweights spend millions battling for dominance in Africa’s ultra-competitive tech capitals, Dubai-based Yango Group is taking a radically different route. The platform has announced a massive $150 million investment earmarked for its African expansion this year. But instead of pouri...
Sam Okudzeto & Associates Partners with Eskwai to integrate AI into their legal workflow
Eskwai’s partnership with Sam Okudzeto & Associates signals that legal AI has crossed from novelty to necessity in Ghana’s top-tier legal market Sam Okudzeto & Associates has been one of the pioneers of corporate and commercial legal practice in Ghana since its founding in 1971. It has advised multinationals, navigated...
ORC fined GHC240,000 for engaging unlicensed cybersecurity provider
The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has fined the Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) and cybersecurity service provider Purpleline Solutions Limited a combined GH¢360,000 for breaches of Ghana’s cybersecurity requirements. The ORC was fined GH¢240,000 for failing to comply with two directives issued by the CSA r...
Bawumia meets Japanese Ambassador, Discusses digitalisation, fintech and galamsey fight
Former Vice President and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday held a productive meeting with the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Hiroshi Yoshimoto, and his team, including officials of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The meeting focused on str...
AI training should focus on solving workplace problems, not simply using technology — expert
Organisations should introduce artificial intelligence by asking employees to use it to solve specific workplace problems rather than simply instructing them to “use AI”, technology expert Eb Novak has said. Novak, a solutions engineer at HiBob, said organisations would see greater value from AI when employees were giv...
Creppy Emmanuel writes: Europe has its philosophy. Asia has its. Why is Africa governing AI without one?
When the European Union wrote its AI Act, it did not begin with algorithms. It began with a question: what do we believe about human beings? The answer — shaped by centuries of Enlightenment philosophy, two world wars, and hard-won democratic reconstruction — became the Act’s philosophical spine. Individual dignity. Fu...
Government distributes 8,500 laptops to support One Million Coders Programme
The government has distributed 8,500 laptops to training centres under the One Million Coders Programme as part of efforts to expand access to digital skills training and strengthen Ghana’s growing tech ecosystem. Fred Yeboah, Director of Research and Innovation at the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication...
Meta AI searches made public – but do all its users realise?
How would you feel if your internet search history was put online for others to see? That may be happening to some users of Meta AI without them realising, as people’s prompts to the artificial intelligence tool – and the results – are posted on a public feed. One internet safety expert said it was “a huge user experie...
WhatsApp launches totally private “incognito” conversations with its AI chatbot
WhatsApp has introduced private chats with its AI chatbot which not even the tech company will be able to read in a new “incognito” mode. It means neither the user nor the AI’s responses will be monitored if the feature is activated, and past conversations will disappear from the chat for the user. Will Cathcart, the h...
NITA warns power outages could make digital services more expensive
Persistent power outages could increase the cost of internet and other digital services in Ghana as operators spend more on backup systems to keep critical infrastructure running, the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) has warned. NITA Board Chairperson Estelle Akofio-Sowah said frequent disruptions to elect...