Full coverage: Ghana

13.11.2007 The Winneba Open Digital Village and Rescue Mission Ghana are organising a three day training workshop on Web 2.0 tools for development from December 10-13, 2007. The training will focus on emerging web based social, business and technology developments and define future web trends.

29.08.2006 Ghana and the World Bank have signed two separate agreements for a grant of $55 million towards the implementation of the e-Ghana Project and the education for all-fast track initiative.

21.08.2006 The World Bank Group has approved a $40 million loan to Ghana, to support the implementation of selected components of the government?s Information and Communications Technology, (ICT) for Accelerated Development Policy.

23.06.2006 Alcan Inc. announced today that it will support the Government of Ghana's efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a 3-year US$300,000 collaboration, which is aligned with the Company's commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).

10.05.2006 The Ghanaian government has begun the implementation of a strategic action-plan to effectively transform the country into West AfricaÂ’s regional information and communication technology hub by 2010.

21.03.2006 Farmer-based organisations (FBOs) in the country are to benefit from a series of workshops to educate them on the use of cellular phones to access market information.

06.02.2006 A small radio station 120 miles from the Ghanaian capital is transformed into a community multimedia centre.

27.01.2006 Mr. Kan-Dapaah Minister of Communications of Ghana announced that Ghana's telecommunication sector has witnessed a dramatic improvement in telecommunications infrastructure in the year 2005 in response to the innovative policies and growing confidence in the management of the sector. Ghana's tele-density now stands at fifteen per cent.

04.01.2006 Award winning company, ChildNet Electronic Publishing, Ghana's first local educational software developer and producer will be launching its first product, Squirrel's Compututor.

28.12.2005 Ghana has entered a phase of accelerated economic expansion over the last three years with real GDP growth now averaging 5.2 percent as against a former average of 4.4 percent. Despite this acceleration in growth, the pressures from a more liberalized global economy are mounting; and in response to increased global competition, the Government of Ghana has identified information and communication technology (ICT) services along with agro-processing, tourism and other value-added sectors as key to further economic growth.

16.12.2005 This online training will review the United Nations Convention of Human Rights framework particularly its provisions for peace, security and good governance. It will also examine the theoretical and practical bases for the provisions in a bid to find out their practicability.

10.10.2005 The telecommunications industry in Ghana has been described as one of the fastest growing on the African continent, as significant milestones have been achieved recently.

22.09.2005 The march to a cashless society in Ghana has been boosted by the putting up of a common Automated Teller Machine (ATM) platform for five major banks in the country.

09.07.2005 George Owusu-Afriyie describes how BG-BASE, a database program designed to manage information on botanical collections, is helping to conserve medicinal plants in Ghana.

06.06.2005 The Government is to establish Community Information Centres (CIC) in all the 230 constituencies to help create awareness on ICT in the rural communities.

07.10.2004 More than 4,000 farmers in GhanaÂ’s upper east regions can now switch on their radio sets to get all the crop and market information that they need. Started as a three-month pilot, the Farmer Information Support project also aims to use mobile phones and Internet to set up a long-distance information programme.

18.06.2004 Internet service providers in the Tamle province of Ghana have urged the government to review its high licensing fee.

21.03.2004 A UN Task Force has found alternatives to centralised grid power and wired telecommunications, which can have a major impact on the quality of life for rural people in developing countries. The Task Force held a two-day meeting in Ghana, which began with a roundtable discussion with the Ada local community to seek practical solutions to the challenges faced by rural communities around the world.

17.03.2004 The students of the University of Development Studies, Navorongo campus in Ghana face a constant challenge: pursuing their degrees and staying aware of current events in an community with no Internet access and only one TV and radio station. Kofi Mangesi reports.

10.09.2003 Barclays bank Ghana has donated £21,000 to UNDP for its Mobile Telecentre To Go (MTTG) project that seeks to make available the power of ICT to rural populations. The project uses a vehicle equipped with wireless Internet access to impart distance education and train children, teachers, and local activists.