When online markets for consumer goods and services first emerged, they were hailed for empowering shoppers, encouraging competition, and reducing transaction costs. But much as changed since then, and if current trends continue, online markets will become markets in name only. Washington DC, US, May 17, 2018// – Information technology is not just transforming markets; […]
May 15, 2018//-The United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UN CSTD) acknowledged that many technological and development gaps still remain.
Nairobi, Kenya, May 14, 2018//-The term ‘exponential organisation’ was first introduced in a 2014 book by the Singularity University founding director Salim Ismail and co-authors Michael Malone and Yuri van Geest.
May 11, 2018//-It is barely four months after the coming into force of the 35 per cent tax on gaming revenue, and the Treasury is proposing new tax changes in the gambling industry.
Accra, Ghana, May 10, 2018//-A former Procurement Manager at the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Benony Bleponny, is accusing the Director-General, Kofi Osei-Ameyaw and Human Resource and Administration Director, Fiifi Amissah, of manipulating the process in order to give 11 contracts to Ram’s Kitchen owned by the former’s in-law.
Pretoria, South Africa, May 8, 2018/ — The Minister of Communications, Ms. Nomvula Mokonyane with the Film and Publication Board (FPB) in partnership with the South African Police Services (SAPS), City of Cape Town Informal Traders Unit, City of Cape Town (Economic Development) and Cape Town Metro Police destroyed close to 106 000 illegal pirated DVDs and […]
Cape Town, South Africa, May 7, 2018// — The Standing Committee on the Auditor-General has expressed its support of the decision made by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) to terminate contracts with Nkonki and KPMG auditing firms.
Accra, May 5, 2018//-The latest and maiden study on fake news in Ghana has revealed that almost 90 percent of newsrooms in the West African country rely heavily on user-generated content from social media for news, making them susceptible to fake news.
May 5, 2018//-In a war that initially played out in paid adverts in the dailies, a dispute between Uganda’s pay TV operators and the communication regulator is keeping consumers on the edge.
Accra, May 2, 2018//-A debut study by Penplusbytes www.penplusbytes.org on Fake News in Ghana has shown that the Ghanaian media landscape does not have systems, budgets or trained personnel dedicated to combat the menace of Fake News.
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