Ghana cybercity seems to be a technology hub which is currently in construction in Ghana. The technology hub or park will be the first of its’ kind in Western Africa, built in the centre of the university of Ghana.

Ghana cybercity will be designated a Free Zone according to Ghanaian laws which means it will get benefits from the tax incentives associated with that status.

Due to lack of alternate souces to verify this post,we basically included below the original story posted by Ghana News Agency

A ceremony to begin work on Ghana’s first Technology Park at Adako-Jachie in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region was held on Thursday.

Vodafone Ghana in partnership with New York -Based Afric Xpress is to roll out an innovatively new service that allows subscribers to buy air time and top up their credit, with a simple click on the phone.

The service also affords Vodafone subscribers to use their airtime for transactions such as pay utility bills at SMS charges. To sign on to the service the subscribers would have to register at a txtnpay centre dotted across the country.

The Chief Executive Vodafone David Venn said the partnership with Afric Xpress was in line with the company’s core business of delivering innovate services to its cherished customers.

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According to Ghanadot and Ghananesagency, a former Director General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Professor Walter Sandow Alhassan, called for African governments to start investing more capital in local technology ventures.

He said developing countries should strive to embrace technology and apply it in their everyday activities to enable them move faster and up on the development ladder.

Professor Alhassan said given the opportunities that technology offered it would never be handed down to the developing economies unless they made the efforts themselves by allocating resources to develop it.

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