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The authorities of the Ghana Education Service (GES) have called for an emergency national response to salvage the future of hundreds of schoolchildren who are increasingly being lured into the phenomenon of Internet fraud which is popularly known as “Sakawa” in Ghana, which has ga… Continue

Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs, on Tuesday cautioned the youth against falling prey to the negative use of Information Communication Technology (ICT).

She named some of them as pornography, negative cultural practices, drugs, fraud and “insensitivity towards mankind” which they should guard against.

Speaking at the speech and price giving day of St Roses Senior High School at Akwatia, Ms Dansua asked the youth to desist from networking with dubious people on the net… Continue

The vision of the telecentres is to create a universal access to promote community base ICT
applications, for accelerated growth and development through effective and timely availability
of information.
The Millennium Development Goals(MDG) set very ambitious target to address structural concerns
that impede economic growth and human development. Ghana's Growth and Poverty Reduction
Strategy(GPRS) represents comprehensive policies, strategies; programmes and projects at macro
and micro levels to… Continue

Despite the fact that there is no strong competition from other telecentres in the area, the Community Information Centre(CIC) in SALAGA is seeing its client base eroded by the spread of mobile phones, a direct result of liberalization of the Ghanaian telecommunication sector. It is interesting to know that, more people at the community level are now using mobile phones to access information, communication and for business transactions. This is view as a challenge for the centre as it is cheaper… Continue

Upon its inception in a year ago the Salaga telecentre or CIC as it is sometimes called in Ghana, has made a tremendous improvement in the life of the people. The telecentre has brought a sign of good relieve to the isolated rural farmers. Farmers rural areas of Salaga are often aware of the value of their crops in main markets. The find themselves in a poor negotiating position vis-a-vis middlemen,who routinely under-represent the final selling price and overstate transaction costs, The same ho… Continue