NEWS IN GHANA

The President of ISACA-Accra chapter, Mr. Carl Sackey has charged businesses, organizations and financial institutions in the country to explicitly come out and divulge information, share experiences and report on any form of attack(s), breaches or threats they might have suffered as a result of activities of cybercriminals so others too can learn from in order to forestall any future occurrence. He averred that in order for businesses and institutions to be protected from cyber-criminal activities, it behooves on all stakeholders including government as well as the media to be committed towards vigorous public education and awareness creation in a bid to help improve knowledge. “Technology actually brings efficiency and help us to focus on the core businesses that we want to achieve as humans. It is fast changing and seemed to be driving everything that we do therefore there’s the need to increase awareness on its knowledge, but it has to be a shared responsibility of al...

  Dr Fatima Denton, Director of the United Nations University Institute of Natural Resources (Right) The Director of the United Nations University Institute of Natural Resources(UNU-INRA), Dr. Fatima Denton has called on governments of African countries to invest in Geographic Information System(GIS) including other Geospatial technologies and be fully committed to building capacity of officials and different stakeholders in order to help detect and insulate their countries from potential natural disasters. She averred that the GIS technology is a very powerful tool that is capable of processing data, its management, analysis and monitoring which if harnessed effectively can go a long way to positively impact the management of our natural resources including mitigating the harmful effects of the climate change. “Some of these natural disasters are triggered by climate change while others are inclined naturally which have no link with it in terms of intensity and the fre...

The United Nations University Institute of Natural Resources(UNU-INRA), has built the capacity of 15 African professionals in Geospatial Technologies aimed at equipping them with concepts, functional skills, methods and techniques required for prescribing location specific solutions in addressing resource management challenges facing Africa today. In all, 15 professionals from Ghana and Nigeria drawn from diverse backgrounds which include resource management and research, science students, soil science, electrical engineering, hydrogeology as well as the media partake in the 5-day intensive training course. The participants were taken through GIS, Remote sensing, Global Positioning System(GPS), Georeferencing and Digitizing; a combination of hands-on exercise with fieldwork (practicals) backed by theory. The training was conducted by Mr. Kwabena O. Asubonteng and Mr. Seyram Kofi Loh who are specialized instructors in GIS and remote sensing technologies at the institut...

The Executive Director of Plan Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPPAG), Mrs Abena Adubea Amoah Acheampong has charged journalists in the country and beyond to endeavor to study hard and engage health experts to gain adequate knowledge and information on sexual and reproductive health issues confronting people to be able to shed more light on them for solution. According to her, sexual and reproductive health issues including population control and its management are of utmost importance to human development and therefore ought to be given much attention by journalists in their daily reportage.    “These are issues that we need to always talk about so I will urge all of you. if you want to be health reporters and want to report on sexual education, then you must learn as much as you can, engage with the experts as much as possible to bring out the real issues” she stressed. Mrs Abena Acheampong was addressing a group of journalists at a 1-day training workshop...