Ghana ICT

The trend towards knowledge- and service-based economies is increasingly widespread among emerging and frontier markets, whether they are resource-rich or resource-poor. The benefits of driving growth in the tertiary sector are well known, but the recipes for success are not. However, Ghana’s economic and political stability, combined with its...

The proliferation of the digital medium in Ghana has seen some surprising leaps and bounds in recent years. Although the traditional evolution from fixed-line phone services to fixed-line internet and broadband service has not occurred, a growing number of Ghanaians access the internet through mobile links. As a result, the private sector has begun...

The growth of mobile financial services in Africa is having an undeniable impact across the continent, and Ghana is no exception. The ability to transfer money via mobile phones enables migrants who have moved to urban centres for work to send remittances to relatives still living in remote rural areas absent of any sort of bank or financial...

The Ghanaian government is running a range of programmes aimed at enabling and teaching locals to use computer services and work in the IT sector. These include various training initiatives, as well as the distribution of computers to educational institutions and students under the Better Ghana Agenda, a development initiative of the ruling NDP...

As the first sub-Saharan African country to have a mobile network over 20 years ago, Ghana is accustomed to its position as one of the pioneers of telecommunications on the continent. Its telecoms market is one of the most competitive in Africa, and as mobile penetration figures rise, operators are increasingly looking to non-voice services to drive...