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...
In line with global trends, sales of smartphones and tablet computers in Thailand have steadily increased in recent years. For smartphones, this growth has come despite limited 3G service availability (see Telecoms overview). Regardless, sales of these devices grew by 200% in 2011, according to market research firm IDC. Moreover, this trend looks...
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