A presentation deck Ghana’s National Information Technology Agency circulated ahead at its Early Market Engagement session walks through how the Ghana Electronic Document Wallet, or GEDW, would actually function.
It details who signs a document, how a verifier checks it’s genuine, and what stops a participating company from quietly building a monopoly on Ghanaians’ personal records.
Ghana’s High Court Commercial Division has ordered Zeepay Ghana Limited and its chief executive, Andrew Takyi-Appiah, to pay more than $11.6 million to a customer who deposited funds with the company for onward transfer — money that was never sent.
The Nairobi-based edtech platform enters its eighth African market, betting AI-driven university matching can outpace traditional recruitment agencies in a crowded field.
Craydel, the Kenyan education technology company that uses artificial intelligence to match African students with universities abroad, said Tuesday it has launched operations in Ghana, its eighth market on the continent.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and actor Idris Elba are teaming up to fund artificial intelligence access for African creators, a roughly $1 million commitment aimed at helping the continent’s filmmakers, writers and artists produce work without the budgets typically required by major studios.
The initiative, backed by Elba’s Elba Hope Foundation, will give about 100,000 creators in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Sierra Leone access to Google’s Gemini AI assistant and other digital tools, according to James Manyika, the company’s senior vice president for research and technology.
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