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Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to connect to the Internet. [5] With an average household download speed of 5.8 Mbit/s Ghana had the third fastest speed on the African continent and the 110th fastest out of 188 countries worldwide in February 2014. [10] In 2009 the number of Internet users stood at 1.3 million, 93rd in the world. [1]
Ghana became the next country to have internet in the Sub Sahara. Internet services began in Ghana in 1995. [2] This was made possible through the collaborations between Network Computer Systems (NCS), Pipex International, The Ministry of Transport and Communication of Ghana, Ghana Telecom, and British Telecom. [3]
The Smart Africa Alliance is a partnership among African countries [1] [2] adhering to the Smart Africa Manifesto. Its goal is to accelerate sustainable socioeconomic development on the African continent [ 3 ] through usage of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and through better access to broadband services.
Internet in Africa is now growing even faster than mobile telephony. Between 2000 and 2008, Internet subscriptions have grown by 1030.2%, versus the world's average of 290.6%. [19] The table below summarizes figures for the number of Internet subscription in Africa from 2000 to 2008, based on estimates made in 2008. [19]
Ghana's project will also provide fiber-optic connections with the neighboring countries of Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east. Ghana's broadband market, divided between ADSL and wireless broadband services, was small at the end of 2008, a total of about 26,500 subscribers, ADSL 53% and wireless WiFi/WiMax 47%.
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) was established as an implementing agency of the Ministry of Communications, in January 2004, with the formulation of the comprehensive ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy, which seeks to engineer an ICT-led socio-economic development process with the potential to transform Ghana into a middle income, information-rich ...
National Information Technology Agency. Its mandate includes identifying, promoting and developing innovative technologies, standards, guidelines and practices among government agencies and local governments, as well as ensuring the sustainable growth of ICT via research & development planning and technology acquisition strategies to facilitate Ghana's prospect of becoming a technology-driven ...
The use of new media in Ghana like elsewhere is growing. The Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector, which is based on a free market approach, [ 1 ] has promoted new media use. Most popular aspects of new media to Ghanaians is the Internet, [ 2 ] and its associated mobile and desktop applications for education, health ...