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Safely Re-opening borders through Enhanced Monitoring & Adherence Tracking of Incoming Travelers – A timely solution for West Africa, based on science, data and technology
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the shutting of borders in most countries across the world, in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. This [...]
Impact of Covid-19 On Fintech Trends and Consumer Behaviour
Covid-19 on its initial start appeared to be a very distant disease in faraway Asia. From December 2019 to February 2020, nearly everyone outside of C [...]
Computing Basics Everyone Should know
Much of the technology in use today have been democratized so much so that availability, usage, and controls are no longer the privilege of the IT Dep [...]
Ghana Voters ID card Vulnerability
Introduction
In the past years, there have been several issues battling with the security of systems and networks. The Aadhaar card of India is a 12- [...]
The CIO Diaries: A Supply Chain-Wide BCP & Cyber-Resilience Program
As companies were forced online in recent times, most re-assessed their Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Cyber-Resilience Programs to come to terms [...]
Using technology to improve remittance usage for sustainable development
Ghanaians, living abroad transfer monies back home regularly to support their families and friends. These money transfers are mostly for consumption a [...]
Leveling the Playing Field
The National Communications Authority of Ghana on June 8, 2020, declared its intent to classify Scancom Limited (MTN) as a Significant Market Power, e [...]
Covid-19 Disruption: The need to move ICT centres from the community to the home
Past and present governments have channeled some resources into establishing community and school Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cente [...]
Significant Market Power in Ghana… A case of delayed implementation
It is therefore prudent that the regulator takes steps to implement the guidelines that comes with the classification of MTN as SMP and ensure the oth [...]
Cybersecurity Insights for Management Decision making
Whiles there is no guarantee of a fully protected IT infrastructure/network environment free from compromise, gaining visibility is a step in the righ [...]
Digital Transformation (DT) on Warp Speed
Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the question about who is leading the Digital Transformation (DT) in an organization has usually [...]
Information Security Risk Assessments of Suppliers
Suppliers need to ensure that, InfoSec clauses/requirements contained in contracts with their customers are strictly adhered to. They need to provide [...]
Unleash Spectrum Potential to Pave the Way to a Digital Ghana
The internet has revolutionized our society at an unprecedented speed, with mobile a key tool supporting its rapid growth. [...]
The digital transformation journey with Edge Computing, 5G and SD-WAN
The possibilities are enormous; however commercial viability of the business cases must be quickly validated to understand the ecosystem better. With [...]
What if the Corona Virus was a piece of software?
We need to be well prepared for any future scenarios whether the viruses are natural, artificially created, or pieces of software. Humanity should beh [...]
Working in remote teams: What you can learn from the ICT industry
As the Agile way of working is not so much about being at the office but more about getting things done and produce a certain result, it can be a good [...]
Professionals in lockdown: How to set up a good and safe workplace and ICT provisions at home
While many people already started working from home a few weeks ago, the current lockdown in Accra and Kumasi is now challenging all professionals li [...]
Necessity brings innovation: ICT can help to overcome Corona virus challenges and grab the opportunity to innovate.
Your current sales, customer contacts, and supplies may be affected badly by the current situation as it has become difficult to have personal physica [...]
Scam-baiting Case study: The Scammer in the refugee camp (Part 2)
At the end of Part 1, the bank requested for authentic
documents. I contacted Wendy and she sent me the first three documents (Deposit
Certificate, D [...]
Outbreak of Coronavirus – a threat to Cybersecurity
Verify every information source. There is currently an overload of digitized information on COVID-19 outbreak purporting to be genuine and credible, a [...]