Category: Articles
The CIO Diaries: Resilience Beyond Digital Transformation
Information Systems (IS) become more and more complex as the number of solutions in the IS space keeps rising; each solution promising different but c [...]
Business processes reengineering to be driven by technology in the post covid-19 era
...a do or die affair for businesses.
Business processes of most companies are rigid and un-adaptive to technology. The company owners and manageme [...]
The Deception of Forwarded Messages and Links
The value of data has led to increasing demand for it. Researchers and innovators need a lot of data of all kinds to bring about new products and serv [...]
Telecommuting Under Lockdown
Remote work also referred to as telecommuting (work from anywhere or teleworking) has been with us since the 1970s. Over the past, two to three decade [...]
January 28: Data Privacy Day
Why is Data Privacy important?
January 28 is Data Privacy Day which is “an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respect [...]
Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH) and Code for Afrika e.V., Germany, collaborate to promote coding among Ghanaian kids
Learning to code is a basic literacy in the digital age, and it is important for kids to understand and be able to work with the technology around the [...]
Digital Design and Creative Coding Hub in Ghana
The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH) in partnership with Code it! from Germany is going to set up the "Digital Design and Creative Coding [...]
Open Data for Sustainable Development
According to the open data handbook, Open data is data that anyone can access, use, or share. It is the idea that some data should be freely available [...]
Digital Education in Ghana
Digital literacy as a fourth literacy has become necessary to talk about in education and eLearning. Although reading, writing, and mathematics are re [...]
The Offensive Approach to Ghana’s Voter Data Exposure
A few days ago, the voter registration details of over 15 million Ghanaians were uploaded and circulated through various media platforms via google dr [...]
Data Initiatives Worth Exploring in Ghana Part 2
Part one of this article discussed data initiatives such as data commons, data exchanges and marketplaces, and open data platforms in dealing with the [...]
Data Initiatives Worth Exploring in Ghana Part 1
On the 12 November 2020, I had the rare privilege of being part of a panel discussion on the “opportunities and challenges for Responsible AI in Afric [...]
The Digital Series: Championing a Digital Culture
In a typical digital transformation effort, C-Level executives often overlook the importance of driving a digital culture. Leaders of di [...]
The CIO Diaries: Championing a Cybersecurity Culture
One of the priorities of the Chief Information (Security) Officer [CIO/CISO] is to drive employee cyber behavior. A single click of a ma [...]
The growing animus between Information Technology and Information Security
Introduction
The rapid need for Information Security (IS) in the operations of organizations has led to the formation of Information Security Depar [...]
The Sherrif Security Indicator
As an Information Security Professional, I have taken a keen interest and followed closely the global reports of the Unisys Security Index (USI), for [...]
Information Security Governance: the cornerstone of effective information protection
Information Security Governance (ISG) refers to the system through which an organization directs and controls its Information Security (InfoSec) activ [...]
Social Engineering; The Greatest Catalyst for Successful Cyber Attacks
Social Engineering (SE) is the process of deceiving an individual or a group of people to take a certain action(s) or disclose sensitive information i [...]
3 Areas Where We Must Harness the Transformative Power of Artificial Intelligence
For most people, artificial intelligence (AI) is about robots; about some complex technology that is far away from them. This is true especially for p [...]
Making sense of the COVID Pandemic; Education Post-mortem
Reshaping Our Educational System; Prioritising STEM Education.
COVID-19 is not the first global pandemic the world has faced in recent history, but [...]