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Telecommunications giant, Vodafone Ghana has partnered with MicroEnsure, a global provider of micro, nano and digital insurance products, to launch an all-inclusive mobile insurance product known as SafeNet for customers. SafeNet is underwritten by Enterprise Life Assurance Company Limited and Prudential Life Insurance Ghana Limited.

Since the beginning of November 2020 the world has watched in wonder, and often disbelief, as the spectacle of the United States’ 2020 presidential election, continues to unfold. The two candidates on polar opposites of the political spectrum, fought two very different campaigns with sharply contrasting messages. As was witnessed in the US’ previous elections in 2016, social media played a pivotal and often divisive role in shaping the views of the electorate. In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, the world gleaned a better understanding of how foreign nations could use social media to exploit the ideological differences that exist in any society to devastating effect. Some argue that the full effects of this are still not properly understood.

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Accra, December 4th , 2020 – The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications wishes to inform the general public, that its members are taking the necessary steps and measures to provide resilient network quality across the country as the nation heads to the polls on 7th December 2020 and the festive season.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Vodafone Ghana Foundation has empowered rural women engaged in agribusiness in the Upper East Region to harness digital technology to promote financial inclusion and productivity.

Vodafone Ghana Foundation, as part of its commitment to contribute to the sustainable development of the country, has organised free eye screening for children of the Save Them Young Orphanage (SYTO) and donated ¢5,000 to the home.

Vodafone Ghana CEO Patricia Obo-Nai has appealed to recent graduates of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), to embrace technology.

Ghana’s leading Telecommunication giants, MTN has commissioned a multipurpose library and robotic centre for the Ebenezer Senior High School and as well for the usage of the Dansoman community in the Greater Accra Region.

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Accra, November 24, 2020 – The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has released a study indicating total tax contributions enabled by the mobile industry to support the socio-economic development of the country.

Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read (pictured) credited moves to reshape the operator, including cost cuts and divestments, for keeping its financial performance resiliant against pandemic-related headwinds in its fiscal H1 2021.

A privacy organisation filed two complaints against Apple in Europe, accusing the company of circumventing European Union (EU) law by tracking iPhone users’ behaviour for advertising purposes without consent.