Category: Articles
Developing a digital literate society: IIPGH launches “Digital Design and Creative Coding Hub”
The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH) with its partners Codie it!, and TinkerToys, from Leipzig, Germany on 3rd May 2021 successfully launc [...]
SCRUM in Africa
SCRUM is an agile project management framework. In two earlier articles, we explained the advantages of using SCRUM over traditional project managemen [...]
Digital design and creative coding hub in Ghana – 3
“Support learning processes creatively and successfully with TinkerToys”
With a few more days to the grand opening of the digital design and creati [...]
All set for the official opening of IIPGH Digital Design & Creative Coding Hub in Accra
The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana is set to open its long-awaited Digital Design and Creative Coding Hub facility in the first week of May 2021 [...]
SCRUM, how it helps you to work online with your team
Depending on where you live in the world, about a year ago your company may have decided to move most of its workers online. For a lot of managers, th [...]
SCRUM: the new way to manage your IT – and other- projects
SCRUM has quickly become the new standard way to do IT projects. In this article, the authors explain the way SCRUM differs from traditional methods o [...]
Ghana’s Cybersecurity Act at A Glance
Background
Ghana’s Cybersecurity Act, 2020 (Act 1038) was passed by the Parliament of Ghana on 6th November 2020 and assented by President Akufo-Ad [...]
Mobile App Permissions – what you need to know
The growth of the mobile application (app) industry is on the ascendancy. Using smartphones has increased and serves as a major driver of innovations. [...]
Creative coding for kids
Is Creative Coding the key to getting all children interested in Computer Science?
Two essential questions and challenges that the team of the Cod [...]
How are human brains different from computers?
Eric Emerson Schmidt once said, “People assume computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People differ from each other, and they are all [...]
Your Digital Footprint: How It May Affect You
Make no mistake about it – the Internet is listening every time you use it! It is important that you understand what you are leaving behind when you u [...]
Digital design and creative coding hub in Ghana – 2
Digital design and creative coding are redefining programming. In many ways, artists have been at the center of challenging commonly held beliefs and [...]
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 [...]