Helios Towers to participate in ICT & Telecom Summit

Helios Towers a leading wireless infrastructure company in Africa has confirmed its participation as a platinum sponsor of the upcoming Mobile World Ghana ICT & Telecom Summit at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan ICT Centre Accra, come 28th – 29th April, 2011. Ghana is host to some of the biggest names in the ICT & Telecoms [...]

Workshop on contextualization of science ends in Winneba

The Minister of Education, Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, has stressed the need to revamp science and technology in all its forms, especially within the education sector, to make it relevant to the country’s development needs. This revamping exercise, she said, must necessarily cover all levels of the education system, basic, secondary and tertiary. The minister said [...]

Countries Urged to Strengthen Research Ties

credit: Linda Nordling African academics are backing a drive to establish closer research and higher-education ties between countries on the continent to boost its development. The vision is set out in a document finalised last month (January) by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) – with the support of the African [...]

Are social media company valuations getting bubbly?

I’ve been back on the venture capital beat for exactly a month (anniversary cards welcome), yet in many ways it feels like I never left. See, I started covering tech during the dot-com boom, and with the recent jaw-dropping valuations for social media companies, some investors seem to be partying like it’s 1999. VCs in [...]

Parliament urged to pass the renewable energy bill

The Director of Engineering Services of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Mr Sam Appiah, has called for early passage of the renewable energy bill before Parliament to enable the country to develop the energy mix to meet the ever growing energy requirement of the Ghanaian economy. He said the law was an indication of the [...]

RLG to deliver 3000 netbooks for gov’t’s IT programme

LG Communications says it will, by close of this month, finish assembling the first batch of 3000 netbooks for use by government in its IT expansion program. The company has been engaged by the Ministry of Environment and Science to undertake the project as part of government’s plans to improve access to computer technology especially [...]

Planet could be ‘unrecognizable’ by 2050, experts say

(AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an “unrecognizable” world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday. The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, “with almost all of the [...]

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