In 2015, Tanzania hosted the first ever Africa Open Data Conference. This year, Ghana was privileged to host the Conference at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC). The Conference was focused on bringing together all stakeholders of o...
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Today is #WorldOceansday, a day set aside globally to celebrate the ocean. Countless events are held at different parts of the world to draw attention to the pollution of the ocean and other harmful activities by humans that reduce the pure state ...
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The Open Data revolution is gaining grounds in Africa very much to the delight of major stakeholders due to the amazing prospects it holds for the continent. This has made it necessary to create a platform for all open data enthusiasts across Afri...
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The Code for Ghana team loves working with data because it reveals hidden insights and points out areas that need immediate action to be taken.The is a recap of what we did for the first quarter of 2017. For, we have been able to work on three da...
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The recent spate of motor accidents all over the country has been alarming. News reportage on these accidents are often accompanied by gory images of the victims who perished and those who sustained various degrees of injuries. Motor accidents ar...
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Code for Ghana is once again organizing the Open Data Day Ghana at Mobile Web Ghana. The theme for this year’s event is “Open Contracting and tracking public money flow”. Open contracting involves analysing government contract data to have a bett...
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Mobile Money is a fast, reliable, cheap and convenient way of transferring money, making payments and doing other transactions. Currently four Mobile Network Operators offer Mobile Money services in the country. These are MTN, Airtel, Tigo and Vod...
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Africa has some of the longest serving heads of states in the world currently. We have witnessed the citizens of these African countries ‘democratically’ elect their presidents into office every election year since the time they first tasted power...
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Ghana’s December 7th general election received a lot of media attention both locally and internationally. It was generally an incident-free event and this has been the case in Ghana since we switched to democratic rule in 1992. Ghana’s democracy r...
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The age of politicians often comes up during conversations about the eligibility of a particular candidate. For some, ‘old age’ means experience and a rich store of wisdom while ‘youth’ means the direct opposite. Others may also prefer younger pol...
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Usually after the general election, it is very essential that we are particular about where we get our news. False news misinforms and can lead to some chaotic consequences. The Code for Ghana team has developed a news aggregator (app) that accu...
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The special voting was held on December 1st for security personnel, the media and workers of the Electoral Commission. Voting was postponed to 4th December because some registered voters didn’t find their names in the voters register. Many people ...
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Our attention was drawn to an article posted on THE GUARDIAN about the dumping of low quality fuel on the African market by some foreign oil companies. The quality of the oil sold to African countries by these companies is way below that which is ...
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If you are reading this, then you are definitely on the internet and we thought you should know there is a cause for celebration. Today we join the rest of the world to celebrate the International Internet Day: the internet is 25 years today. Augu...
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A few months ago the Inspector General of Police - COP John Kudalor - stated that the Police service in Ghana is considering banning social media on election day later this year. The news was received with a lot of rage by a section of the general...
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“Maternal Mortality is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not fr...
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Usually when we hear the word ‘slavery’, we cast our minds back to the Transatlantic slave trade which was abolished centuries ago. Therefore some people don’t regard slavery as a contemporary phenomenon. As far as they are concerned, it has been ...
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Elections in Ghana – and perhaps elsewhere in the world – are often characterized by some irregularities. These abnormalities pose some threat to the credibility of elections results of the country. Nobody can completely eliminate human error in a...
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Ghana as a country (and Africa as a whole) loses huge sums of money due to corruption each year. Monies that would have otherwise been used for developmental projects, are diverted into the private accounts of some government officials. The scope ...
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Every year the Finance Minister of the government of Ghana reads the nation’s budget to parliament. Parliament’s approval is needed before the Appropriation Bill is passed. The budget usually consists of national revenue and expenditure: the amoun...
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As 2015 draws to a close we all tend to reflect on our accomplishments and setbacks and plan for the year ahead. At Code for Ghana, it’s been an extremely busy year and we have had our fair share of events. We are very grateful to all our partners...
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Today is the United Nation’s International Migrants Day. A close look at the Statistics on Ghanaian Migrants in 2013 reveals a very interesting pattern. Most migrants from Ghana end up in neighboring countries and other African countries. Togo lea...
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A country’s Gross Domestic Product refers to ‘the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within the borders of the country in a specific time period’. Though it is usually measured over a one-year period, it can be also be ...
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The Farmers’ Day celebrations was instituted in 1985 to recognize and reward hard working farmers for their illustrious contribution to the growth of the Ghanaian economy. Ever since then, the day has been celebrated on every first Friday of the m...
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Above is an infographic representation of the state of the roads under construction by the Roads and Transport Ministry. The quality of roads in a country contributes tremendously to development and economic stability. Especially when road transpo...
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November 12th, 2015 was the day set aside for Penplusbytes’ 5th Accra Tech Salon. Participants were treated to a well coordinated round-table discussion just like previous Tech salons. The discussion bordered on the prospects of GIS mapping and ho...
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The Millennium Development Goals are time-bound targets set by one of the greatest gathering of world leaders in history to combat poverty, hunger, diseases, lack of adequate shelter etc. in the world. The goals were set to better the living condi...
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Digital maps are fast becoming an essential part of every modern society. They help to connect information around us to enable us understand our world better. OpenStreetMap is one interesting open mapping project that embodies the tenets of open d...
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Ghana’s democracy is highly commendable and clearly unrivalled on the African continent. There are many countries on the continent that still struggle to have a successful change of government which isn’t marred by violence or resistance on the pa...
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On Friday 2nd October, 2015, Code for Ghana gathered a group of students from the Ghana Institute of Journalism to introduce them to modern tools and skills for data journalism in an event dubbed: Telling Stories With Data - Tools and Skills. One...
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Code for Ghana organized a Data Scraping Workshop on 29th August at the Mobile Web Ghana lab. The workshop was facilitated by David Selassie Opoku, a fellow at School of Data and the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST). He has a ...
Continue ReadingAt the Senior High School level in Ghana, students write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) before moving to the universities. WAEC has released the results for this year’s WASSCE including some astonishing statistics...
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###Some Projects of the Hack Night Code for Ghana organized a two day hackathon dubbed Open Data Hack Night. It was held at Mobile Web Ghana from 31st July to 1st August. The overnight-hackathon was organized to introduce developers to c...
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Ghana’s energy crisis has been one of the most popular topics of discussion on mainstream media and social media. The situation is truly unbearable and most people have run out of patience with the government. Especially because the deadlines for ...
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Dr. Afari Gyan handed over the baton to Mrs. Charlotte Osei a few weeks ago as the new chair of Ghana’s Electoral Commision. This news received a lot of buzz on social media and on some panel discussions at various TV and radio stations. Some peo...
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Over the weekend, Code for Ghana in collaboration with OpenStreetMap Ghana had a mapping workshop at the Mobile Web Ghana lab in Accra. The main purpose of the workshop was to introduce attendees to OpenStreetMap. After a brief moment of introduc...
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The Public Interest and Accountability Committee is a statutory committee established under Section 51 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act 2011 (Act 815). As part of its responsibilities, the committee periodically releases reports that provid...
Continue ReadingToday we celebrate Dr. Afari-Gyan for his enormous contribution to the democracy of our great nation. He has had oversight of many elections in Ghana since 1993. Happy 70th birthday Dr. Afari-Gyan.
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The Code for Ghana team is currently working tirelessly to bring innovations to Ghanaian newsrooms. The idea is to help journalists develop a keen interest in data-journalism and learn how to gather, refine and visualize data in order to tell inte...
Continue ReadingGhana’s 2015 budget was presented to parliament by the Finance Minister, Hon. Seth Terkpeh on 19th November, 2014. The title of the budget was ‘Securing the bright medium term prospects of the Economy’. The title suggests the government’s desi...
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In commemoration of mother’s day, this year’s State of the World’s Mothers report focused on the disparities between the rich and poor living in urban areas. The report assessed the well-being of mothers from 179 countries. According to the repo...
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When we look deeply at politics, we find that there is an employer-employee relationship existing between citizens and the government in power. Where citizens employ the government through elections to manage state assets and develop the country. ...
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In June 2006, the International Telecommunications Union held the Regional Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva that aimed at changing the quality of television/radio broadcast all over the world. At the end of the conference, a treaty was sign...
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Ghanaians have been experiencing erratic power-supply for the last three years. The problem first reared its ugly head in 2009 when the water levels of the Akosombo dam dropped. Ghanaians have nicknamed the crisis ‘dumsor’: to depict the erratic s...
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Following the call for application made by the Code for Ghana team, we are happy to announce that we have selected three media houses amongst the many that applied. These are: Ghana News Agency, Graphic Communications Group Limited and Citi fm. T...
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The Code for Ghana project is calling for interested Media Houses that will like to use data to tell meaningful stories and bring technology innovation to their newsrooms to apply to be part of the initiative. Code for Ghana is an initiative that...
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Code for Ghana on February 21, 2015 organised the Open Data Day Hackathon at the Mobile Web Ghana lab. Open Data Day is an international event where citizens gather to learn and share knowledge about Open Data and build Apps using Open Data. It wa...
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The Code for Ghana ‘Call for Participation’ event was held at iSpace, Osu. It was well attended by members of the media, freelance developers and some data enthusiasts. After the attendees introduced themselves to each other the various presentat...
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The second edition of the Open Data Barometer ranks Ghana as third most transparent government in Africa. Rwanda shares the same position with Ghana in the report. Eighty six countries were surveyed by the Web Foundation - the organization that p...
Continue ReadingMobile Web Ghana, World Wide Web Foundation and the African Media Initiative are happy to announce their partnership in the Code for Ghana initiative. Code for Ghana is a project that seeks to form a community of civic-minded technologists and ope...
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As part of efforts to grow the open data movement in Ghana, Mobile Web Ghana participated in the Kumusha Bus Ghana event which was hosted at the AITI-KACE Nov 29, 2014. Kumusha Bus, an African adaption of the Libre Bus, was launched in Addis Abab...
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