Online buyers can breathe a sigh of relief. A law protecting consumers will soon be in place in Ghana.
Ghana's digital ecosystem week in review: NEIP meets Hubs, NLP Ghana wins Google AI grant, Dash CEO suspended, MTN to invest $1 Billion in Ghana ...
Accra Digital Digest No. #000100
Date: Feb 13, 2023 – Feb 19, 2023
Dear friends,
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We are excited to bring you last week’s news summary, perspectives, analysis, and insights into the Ghanaian digital ecosystem for busy professionals, business owners, executives, development partners, decision-makers, and investors.
Digital infrastructure & platforms
News updates
Margins Group gets approval to manufacture visa cards
A free zones company; Intelligent Cards Production Systems (ICPS), a subsidiary of the Margin Group, has been approved to manufacture visa cards in Ghana.
MTN Group to Invest $1 Billion in Ghana Over the Next Five Years
MTN Group has disclosed that they are going to be investing $1 Billion in the information systems and infrastructure of Ghana over the next five years. This news comes after the Ghanaian govt. exempted them from a tax claim worth around $773 Million.
Digital governance
News updates
New law underway to prioritize consumer protection
The Ministry of Trade and Industry working with relevant stakeholders is putting together a coomsuper protection bill to secure the rights of consumers across industries.
Regime to license cyber security operators starts March 1
THE Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has completed processes towards the introduction of a mandatory licensing regime for cyber security service providers. CSA would from March 1, this year, start providing license and accreditation for existing and new cybersecurity service providers (CSPs), cybersecurity establishments (CEs) and cybersecurity professionals (CPs).
Digital finance
News updates
Over GH¢2bn invested in SME sector since 2017
Government has since 2017 invested over GH¢2billion in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) space, with over 300,000 businesses having benefitted – of which 60 percent were women-owned businesses and 3,195 jobs created.
Digital entrepreneurship
News updates
Prince Boakye Boampong, the founder and CEO of Dash, which provides an alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing interaction between mobile money and bank accounts in Africa, has allegedly been temporarily suspended pending an investigation into financial impropriety, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
NEIP holds stakeholders’ engagement on hubs grant programme
The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme – NEIP has held an engagement with hubs across the country as part of plans to implement a Hub Acceleration Grant Programme – HAGP under the Ghana Economic transformation project.
KGL Group crowned Business of The Year 2022
KGL Group has been adjudged the Business of the Year for the 2022 business year by the Millennium Excellence Foundation
Fidelity Bank builds capacity of SHS students
Fidelity Bank Ghana and Environment 360 have held a programme that seeks to introduce senior high school (SHS) students to business concepts and entrepreneurship.
Opportunities
The World Food Programme’s Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator is now accepting high-impact innovative solutions that strive to enhance emergency management and solve humanitarian challenges faced by vulnerable populations and humanitarian actors.
Op-eds
A guide to enhancing corporate governance in early-stage start-ups in Africa
Richard Nunekpeku assess the concept and practice of corporate governance as well as offer some guidelines for its promotion in start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Digital talents
News updates
Ghanaian University Professor Granted $30,000 For Research In Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Stephen Moore, a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Coast has received a Google research grant of $30,000 to continue research in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
MTN Ghana Foundation opens entries for 2023 Bright Scholarship Programme
MTN Ghana Foundation has opened entries for 2023 Bright Scholarship programme for interested learners who need support to further their education.The entries, commenced from January 1, 2023, and end on May 31, 2023.
Opportunities
Apply: AirtelTigo Ghana is hiring
AirtelTigo has vacancies in its Finance, Mobile Financial Services, Sales & Distribution and Marketing departments.
- Director, Mobile Financial Services
- Director, Risk and Business Control
- Direct Sales Supervisors - Central, Western and Eastern Regions
- Project Accountant - DIVL
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Head, General Accounting
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