Mobile phones to be used to curb maternal mortality (09 March 2010)
Grameen Foundation, an NGO in healthcare services, is pioneering a concept of using mobile phones to monitor the condition of pregnant women and babies.

Ms Kirsten Gagnaire, Project Manager in an address at the fourth anniversary celebration of the Volta Foundation in Ho last Friday said, health workers manning Community Based Health Planning Services (CHPS) Zones would keep phone numbers of pregnant women to prompt them on what to do and when to seek medical help.
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GINKS LAUNCHES 3-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN (04 March 2010)
Jonnie Akapko (Chairman of the GINKS Board) welcomed guests to the launch of the 3 year Strategic Plan of GINKS. In his address, he said among other things that GINKS was set up in 2003 to be a platform that shares knowledge on ICT activities in and around Ghana. He then invited Dr. Robert Awuah-Baffour (Vice-President of the Ghana Telecom University College, himself an Engineer with a firm background in ICT) to fill the post of and serve as chairman of the occasion.
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ICTs, TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN GHANA - REPORT ON ICT4D SERIES – FEBRUARY 2010 (04 March 2010)
“While we are good at working with tangible resources, we have been very poor at handling the intangible resource such as information. Without good quality information, bad decisions are made and learning does not occur”. These were the words of the Ghana Country Manager of the International Institute for Communication and Development, IICD, Mr. Olaf Erz.
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Ghana: Information Technology column - Dorothy Mansa Bruce (03 February 2010)

Ghana, though has made some progress in the field of information and computer technology (ICT) over the years, much can still be done. Just as time is not static, so is technology.

The later keep and for developing countries of which Ghana is no exception to meet the challenging and changing demands of information society.

It is in the light of this that we make the following recommendations, which in the best of our knowledge, can help Ghana move, not only rapidly, but steadily towards attaining the status of an information society.

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Greenpeace presses for removal of toxic substances from electronics products (08 January 2010)

Greenpeace, the international environmental group continues to press IT companies to remove toxic substances from their products.

A report by the online news source computerweekly.com quotes the Greenpeace as saying technology companies are delaying the removal of toxic chemicals from their computers.

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