Articles from the ‘Science’ category
Posted by GNA on July 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm in Other Top Stories, Science
Government has awarded a 150-million-dollar contract to Huawei Technologies, a Chinese-based ICT and telecommunication infrastructure company, to provide modern infrastructure to ensure internet broadband availability countrywide within the next 24 month. Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, announced at the opening a two-day international conference on Business Processes Outsourcing (BPO) that the infrastructure was expected [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by GNA on July 20, 2009 at 10:18 pm in Science
A four-week Technology Camp dubbed “GTUC Senior and Junior Tech Camp 2009†to empower and build inter-personal networks among students in the Senior and Junior High Schools in Ghana opened in Accra. The camp with participants from schools across the country also aimed at exposing them to the opportunities in the field of technology. Dr [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by Contributor on July 19, 2009 at 4:01 pm in Education, Science
Koforidua July 19, GNA- Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Friday called on the Centre for School and Community Science and Technology (SACOST), to spearhead research and multi media development activities, to unearth science and technology concepts embedded in the informal sector. He said the Centre should strive to wave its findings into the [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by Contributor on July 18, 2009 at 11:54 am in Other Top Stories, Science
The Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing would undertake a pilot project at Teshie in Accra, to supply sea water to Ghana Water Company Limited for treatment to meet the water needs of the country. Successful completion of the project would make it possible for Ghana to produce about 10 million gallons of fresh [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by Contributor on July 14, 2009 at 3:50 pm in Science
“When people spend time on it, they do like it,†Danny Sullivan, a search analyst, said in reference to Bing. By MIGUEL HELFT nytimes.com SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by Contributor on July 10, 2009 at 10:48 am in Other Top Stories, Science
The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) based in Nairobi has urged President Barak Obama of the United States to make climate change his highest priority to ensure fair and effective climate deal. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would be held in Copenhagen in December this year. This was contained [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by Contributor on July 6, 2009 at 3:39 pm in Other Top Stories, Science
Professor Emmanuel Amamoo-Otchere, Chief Executive Officer of Development Geo-Information Service (DeGEOSERV), on Monday said even though there was no scientific certainty, as yet, about the health impact of radio waves from telecom masts there was need for precaution in the spread of telecom masts across country. “If, indeed, radio waves from telecom [...]
Read the rest of this story »
Posted by Contributor on July 5, 2009 at 6:13 pm in Science
Lack of proper disposal not only affecting humans but also governments by Konye Obaji Ori A global investigation into the dumping of hundreds of millions of pounds of electronic waste around the world has revealed that while the practice threatens health conditions in Ghana, it also threatens security in the United States. Philips and Sharps [...]
Read the rest of this story »
