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• February 11, 2010
• 23:53

  Pornography is the least of our worries

   » ‎ Critical Point
  Porn is a fantasy world in which we objectify others to enable eroticism. Most of us are able to distinguish this fact and to maintain a balance between this fantasy world and real life. This is not particularly remarkable; we often do this when creating our own erotic fantasies in our minds. But objectification is no [...]

• 21:45

  Facebook driving ICT adoption in Africa?

   » ‎ ICTlog.net

  I read ICTworks, a very informative blog all the time. Earlier this week I saw a blog post titled “facebook is driving ICT adoption in Africa” which inspired this blog post. My intentions are to interrogate that statement and ask whether it is not the increasing use of smart phones that has increase facebook adoption or the other way round or it is a rather more complex web.

  I have been following with keen interest how people in Ghana are adopting facebook, twitter and other social networking tools and ICT in general. Last year checkfacebook published a month by month statistics on how people are adopting facebook and it showed an increasing rate. In November, Ghana had 277,600 facebook users, 68.7% of which are males and the rest female. Of this number, about 48% are between the ages of 18-24 and 34% for ages 25-34. In October, it had below 200,000 facebookers from Ghana.

  These statistics gave me an idea the rate of increase of ICT adoption. But upon interrogating the issue further, I realised that I may be wrong. People are making decisions to buy smartphones because they would like to get on the facebook train, update their statuses and tweet or use one social networking platform or the other. Or shall I say people are making decisions to get onto facebook because they have some smart phone or the other?

  So, facebook may actually be driving the use of smartphones and not necessarily ICT. ICT’s are far broader than that and even though i conceed that it will have a long term effect on ICT adoption, government and organisations need to do more to drive ICT adoption.

  By the end of last year, the total Internet penetration of Ghana is still about 4.0% and broadband penetration is less than 0.1%. There are less than 100,000 PCs in Ghana and the ICT skills level is nothing to write home about. Government ICT systems are infantile and companies/organisations are still struggling to deploy IT systems. Educational institutions are still teaching old out-of-date curriculla and more.

  And oh, I forgot that Internet is very expensive and highly unrealiable in Ghana and most parts of Africa. If the rate at which these indicators were increasing was was commensurate with facebook adoption, I would conclude that Africa is adopting ICT. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This is not to belittle however, the immense contributions the mobile industry or should I say facebook is making towards ICT adoptions.

  In order not to delve into the more complicated area of ICT adoption which involves amongst other things, use of ICT equipments, intensity of use of connectivity solutions and intensity of computer use and  skills levels, I would simply add that we are at the risk of reducing the digital divide debate to a mobile adoption instead of ICT adoption. Can we realistically say that mobile adoption equals ICT adoption? I say no but it will be great to read your thoughts and criticisms.

• 15:53

  Ghanaian Girl Scout at Akosombo Fish Market

   » ‎ Accra by Day & Night
  
  Well not quite a scout, but this smart girl is certainly on the lookout for a catch to buy some of her fish!
  
  If I know our market people, this one will not give up till her goods are sold!

• 9:53

  First Strides into Freedom: 11 February 1990

   » ‎ Ramblings of a Procrastinator in Accra
  It has been 20 years since one of the most phenomenal events in modern history occurred; the release of Mr. Nelson Mandela from prison. The exact sequence of that day's events are jumbled in my mind but I clearly remember the euphoria and excitement as we huddled around a television  set in our school in Swaziland. We were glued in awe and silence as Mr. Mandela took his first steps into freedom after 27 years of incarceration.
  11 February 1990: Mr. Nelson Mandela greets the crowd outside
  Victor Verster Prison, Paarl, South Africa
  Source: www.anglonautes.com
  I could ramble on about the significance of this day but  instead I'm leaving that to the lyrics of the pop idol kids like me growing up in Southern Africa worshipped; the (late) great, irrepressible Brenda Fassie (a.k.a MaBrr). Brenda Fassie's song Black President was originally released in 1989 (5 years before Mr. Mandela even became president). The song was  promptly banned by the apartheid regime. Ludicrous as it may sound today, the  paranoid apartheid dons used to ban everything; books, songs and even people!
  Black President
  by Brenda Fassie (3 Nov 1964 - 9 May 2004) 
   
  The year 1963
  The people's president
  Was taken away by security men
  All dressed in a uniform
  The brutality, brutality
  Oh, no, my black president
  Him and his comrades
  Were sentenced to isolation
  For many painful years
  For many painful years
  Many painful years
  Of hard labour
  They broke ropes
  But the spirit was never broken
  Never broken
  Oh, no, my, my black president
  He broke ropes
  But his spirit was never broken
  Never broken
  Oh oh oh, my presidentNow in 1990
  The people's president
  Came out from jail
  Raised up his hand and said
  'Viva, viva, my people'
  He walked the long road
  Back, back to freedom
  Back, back to freedom
  Freedom for my black presidentLet us rejoice for our president
  Let us sing for our president
  Let us pray for our president
  Let us sing, let us dance
  For Madiba give us freedom
  We thank you Lord
  For listening to our prayers
  Night and day
  Oh oh oh, my presidentMadiba My president
  I will die for my president
  I will sing for my presidentI will stand and say
  Viva, viva, viva, viva, viva, viva© Brenda Fassie  Source: museke.com  
  
  Later in 1990, Nelson Mandela made an unannounced visit to my school while on a trip to Swaziland. I still kick myself for opting to go to town that day!

• 7:09

  Poetry: 24-Hour News

   » ‎ ANTI-RHYTHM
  3 news items, over the past day, keep coming back to me.
  
  *Students of Archbishop Porter Girls School in Takoradi, Ghana, got severe food poisoning after eating school food last night. It appears to be an offence to eat alternative food to the bad school-issue.
  
  100 girls went off to school
  Eating, there, was a stiff rule
  Like many a useless control tool
  Now, the girls are oozing stool
  
  *The president recently reshuffled his cabinet. All new ministers are vetted by Parliament. The expected fiery Q&A turned out to be quite a farce.
  
  The Main Man got new ministers
  The House promised vetting sinisters
  But when appeared the Misses and Misters
  Both sides oafed like brothers and sisters
  
  *So, it is being officially acknowledged that government officials in Ghana have kind of always travelled with paid female companions. And the president referred to it as indiscretion?
  
  So, officials go with Ghanaian Geisha girls
  Paid for with the taxpayer’s pearls
  While poverty and the national debt swirls
  One more government is fluffing it in twirls

• 0:00

  If

   » ‎ Ato Kwamena Dadzie Latest Blog Articles
  If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't ...
• 0:00

  A demigod snubbed

   » ‎ Ato Kwamena Dadzie Latest Blog Articles
  Few members of the ruling National Democratic Congress joined the party to support an ideology. Most of them got under the umbrella because of one man. Since its formation the NDC has been nothing more than a personality cult, with this one man its demigod. He craves adulation, demands all ...