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AO Holdings named Microsoft AI Business Solutions Partner and Azure Partner of the Year for West Africa
AO Holdings has earned two prestigious Microsoft Partner of the Year awards, recognising its leadership in AI-powered Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business solutions, cloud infrastructure management and digital transformation value-added services across the region.
Who owns the fuel powering AI?
Artificial intelligence runs on data. But as AI systems grow more powerful,urgent questions about data ownership, ethics, and responsibility demand answers. Artificial intelligence often feels like magic. Systems that can write prose, diagnose diseases, translate languages in real time, and generate images from a sente...
3i Africa Summit: Ghana to pilot continental digital trade corridor with African partners
Ghana’s Vice President, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has announced plans for the country to collaborate with other African nations to pilot a continental digital trade corridor aimed at boosting cross-border commerce and financial integration. Speaking at the 3i Africa Summit 2026 in Accra, the Vice President said Ghana...
Instagram privacy tech is turned off today- what does this mean for your DMs?
Instagram users will no longer be able to send ultra‑private direct messages, as the feature is switched off globally. The removal of end‑to‑end encryption (E2EE) on messages amounts to a major U‑turn by parent company Meta, which previously championed the tech as the gold standard for user privacy. E2EE is the most se...
Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers
Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people's feeds, after internal research into their algorithms showed how outrage fuelled engagement, whistleblowers told the BBC.
Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said more would follow soon.
The trouble with being online all the time
The growing amount of time people spend on smartphones and social media is raising concerns about its impact on attention, relationships and everyday life, particularly among young people. For many, checking a phone has become part of almost every daily activity. People scroll through social media while eating, wait fo...
KNUST partners with government to manufacture locally-made agricultural machines and smart traffic lights
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is set to partner with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to develop locally produced farming equipment and technologies aimed at reducing Ghana’s dependence on imports.
GhIE calls for bold national action on World Engineering Day 2026
The President of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE), Ing. Ludwig Annang Hesse, has called on engineers, policymakers, industry leaders, and young professionals to embrace innovation and digital transformation as Ghana marks World Engineering Day 2026. Delivering his official message under the global theme, “Sm...
Yango Ghana marks IWD 2026 with empowering chit-chat, gifts for female partners and couriers
In a vibrant celebration of International Women’s Day, Yango Ghana, part of Global tech company Yango Group, proudly hosted a special empowerment chit chat dedicated to its female partners and partner couriers, honoring their invaluable contributions as changemakers in a predominantly male-dominated industry. This year...
Telecel Ghana trains 1,000 girls in coding for International Women’s Month
The CEO of Telecel Ghana, Patricia Obo‑Nai, has announced a major initiative to train 1,000 girls in coding and digital skills for free as part of the telco’s activities to celebrate International Women’s Month in March.
Florida sues TikTok, claiming it violates state child safety law
Florida's attorney general sued TikTok on Monday over claims that it is violating the state's law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 to create accounts.