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As the festive season approaches, consumer businesses face the challenge of accurately forecasting demand to avoid stock-outs or excess inventory. AI-enabled demand forecasting can combine historical and real-time data with market trends, economic indicators, and customer behaviour to shift inventory management from reactive to predictive.
9 hours ago · Joy Online →
As the festive season approaches, consumer businesses face the challenge of accurately forecasting demand to avoid stock-outs or excess inventory. AI-enabled demand forecasting can combine historical and real-time data with market trends, economic indicators, and customer behaviour to shift inventory management from reactive to predictive.
9 hours ago · Joy Online →
Agentic commerce describes autonomous AI agents that research, compare, negotiate, and complete purchases on behalf of users or businesses with minimal human intervention, representing an evolution of traditional e-commerce as the industry grows toward $8 trillion by 2027.
11 September 2026 · Joy Online →
A group of 100 firms including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have signed an open letter warning that cyber-attacks using AI will become more widespread and sophisticated within months, calling on governments and organisations to strengthen cyber defences before the technology becomes too powerful to stop.
27 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, founder of e-Crime Bureau, says cyberattacks have become an existential risk for banks, fintech companies, e-commerce platforms and other digital businesses, which must invest in protection and early detection systems to maintain revenue, customer trust and operational continuity. A Digital Economy Forum themed "The Trust Crisis" will examine how fraud and cybercrime are affecting confidence in Ghana's digital economy.
13 July 2026 · Joy Online →
AI is projected to contribute up to $2.9 trillion to Africa's economy with 230 million new digital jobs forecast, and Ghana's Pan African AI & Innovation Summit aims to build the ecosystem and infrastructure needed for Ghanaian and African companies to compete strategically in the next decade.
15 May 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
According to Further Africa and SAP research, AI is projected to contribute $2.9 trillion to Africa's economy with 230 million new digital jobs forecast. Ghana's Pan African AI & Innovation Summit shapes the country's National AI Strategy alongside planned infrastructure including a $250 million national AI compute centre and a proposed Responsible AI Office.
15 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The 3i Africa Summit in Accra this week has made artificial intelligence the dominant theme, with policymakers, regulators, and investors discussing AI's potential to compress development timelines and generate millions of jobs across Africa. Speakers emphasized both the opportunities—such as Africa's 66 percent of global mobile money transaction value—and challenges including fragmentation and regulatory misalignment.
8 May 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
Thousands of policymakers, regulators, bankers, fintech founders and investors have converged in Accra for the 3i Africa Summit, where artificial intelligence has emerged as the dominant theme across panels and discussions. MTN Group's CEO said AI and smartphone penetration are compressing development timelines, while officials noted AI could generate 40 million jobs across Africa and that the continent accounts for 66 percent of global mobile money transaction value.
7 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Ghana's banks recorded 16,733 fraud cases in 2024, a five per cent increase on 2023, with total value at risk climbing 13 per cent to roughly GH¢99 million, even as the sector has become better capitalised and supervised since the 2018 licence revocations.
4 May 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
VivaTech, Europe's largest technology event, will mark its 10th anniversary in June 2026 in Paris, bringing together over 180,000 participants from more than 170 countries, 15,000 startups, 4,000 investors and 450+ speakers. The event will focus on artificial intelligence and its practical applications across industries, alongside fintech, cybersecurity, health technology, and sustainability.
27 April 2026 · Joy Online →