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Recently was when the breaking news reached to us that the popular social media website, Facebook and its owner being Mark Zuckerberg, released the information that Facebook To Launch Libra Cryptocurrency. Now, stepping into the all-new crypto world, Facebook has finally made its Libra Cryptocurrency officially. With this, Mark, the CEO of Facebook, vowed that his company proposed new digital wallet, Calibra, and Libra cryptocurrency isn’t going to cause any cash related risk.

Mark’s promise is happening after Facebook edges closer to 24 months of almost-endless privacy and governance controversies, which includes the Cambridge Analytica data breach, a goof that played a pivotal role in electoral disinformation, and the revelation of its data-sharing agreements with Chinese smartphone manufacturers.

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Nigeria Loses N3.133trn To Cybercrime Yearly-NITDA DG. A report has disclosed that the Nigerian government loses approximately N3.133 trillion to the cybercrime and foreign software each and every year according to the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA.

According to Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, the Director-General of the agency who shared this information at a stakeholders engagement on Nigeria software Testing Guidance, NSTG, and the Guidelines for Information Systems Audit, GITA, in Abuja, also said N127 billion is lost to the cyber-crime incidents yearly due to Nigerian’s incompetence to properly protect information systems. This began in previous three (3) when it was reported that Nigeria Loses N127bn Yearly to Cybercrime according to FG and this time, the news is Nigeria Loses N3.133trn To Cybercrime Yearly-NITDA DG.

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An all-girls robotics team that is representing Ghana at the World Robotics Competition which was held in Michigan – U.S, came first in the senior division.

From the Methodists Girl’s High School (MEGHIS) at Mamfe Akuapem in the Eastern Region, these girls represented Ghana at the world and won the competition at the 2019 WORLD ROBOFEST Competition in U.S.

Other teams in the competition from U.S, Mexico, South Korea and other countries in the competition, team Acrobot from MEGHIS managed to beat these teams and won the 20th edition of the competition in US.

The team consisting of nine female students that are from Methodist Girl’s High (Mamfe Akuapem) earlier won the preliminary contests in Ghana. This competition in Ghana was held for all the top Senior High Schools in the country.

The annual competition in Ghana is under the name: Robotics Inspired Science Education (RISE), and organized by the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation that’s founded by Dr. Ashitey Trebi-Olenu.

At the competition held at Michigan, the task given included the making of a bot that can assemble boxes according to a given binary number.

Activities that went on at the World Robofest competition included:
The Game (Complete robotic missions)
Exhibition (Show off projects)
Vision Centric Challenge (Develop robots to solve problems using cameras)
Unknown Mission Challenge (Surprise missions)
RoboArts (Robotics music, dance, and arts competition)
BottleSumo (Pushing bottle or opponents off a table)
RoboParade (Parade of robots)
Camps
Carnival and
WISER, a conference on STEM education through robotics.

To the awesome performance by these girls at the competition held at Michigan, on behalf of ICT Catalogue as a tech reporting blog in Ghana, Africa and the world at large, we say Congratulations to the girls from MEGHIS for winning the robotics competition.Recommended: Ghana Robotics Academy encourages more to participate in robotics

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Ghana Card: Here Are the simple online registration steps to get your card instantly at the NIA Office.

The Ghana card as announced by the National Identification Card, that mass registration will begin April 2019, has now enhanced in terms of registration by going online making eligible Ghanaians to register for this card via the internet.

The Ghana Card which would be issued to every Ghanaian in the country and Ghanaians abroad including qualified foreigners living in Ghana, is to provide a complete value added integrated multi-sectoral and multipurpose National Identity System through the innovative use and application of information and communication technology to facilitate the social, economic and political development of Ghana.

There’s another chance from the National Identification Authority for Ghanaians to register for the new Ghana Card through an online portal from the comfort of their homes via their computer or smartphones.

Let’s first know some brief information about this Ghana Card before proceeding to the registration process;

What Is The Ghana Card?
The Ghana Card by the National Identification Authority will become a secure and a multi-purpose card that is going establish the biometric identity of the actual holder for verification and authentication of electronic and physical transactions to be conducted in the public and private services space. 

How Was The Previous Process Before Online application process?
To talk about how the Ghana Card Application was done before the introduction of the online portal application, one has to go for the card at various centres where the mass registrations are taking place to start the application process.
Due to the stressful moments involved by joining a long queue causing some people to sleep at the various registration centres and cards too supposed to be issued instantly, was the main reason that led to the introduction of the online portal for Ghanaians to apply from the comfort of their homes. Taking a look at the registration centres with the numerous people available, centres could only register a number of 60 to 90 Ghanaians daily which is going to cause delay in the registration process for each centre.

One needs to wait for a lot of days before their cards are issued and even when the day of the collection came, there was another postponement of the time. This has caused unhappy moment to a lot of Ghanaians about the mass registration procedure.

Is it possible to apply for the Ghana Card through mass registration too?
It is allowed to apply for the Ghana card at the Mass Registration centres since the registration is ongoing in parts of Greater Accra Region and will be available in other regions soon or nationwide. With this, you can keep track to know which region the Mass Registration going to take place after Greater Accra by following their homepage to check.

What Are The Requirements For Ghana Card Online?
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Any of the below ID Cards:
Voter’s ID
Birth Certificate
Passport
SNNIT
Driver’s License
NHIS

How To Apply For The Ghana Card via Online
First of all, visit the registration portal through: https://register.nia.gov.gh

As a first time user for on this web portal, you have to register for new account by filling the given forms including your phone number. Now verify with your phone number after receiving the SMS confirmation with the secret code. Then enter this confirmation code to continue to your Ghana Card online application dashboard.

Then click on "Start New Application" from your dashboard to begin your information submission process.
Then enter your full name containing your Surname and First Name on the next screen. You may enter a full stop in the username field if you're a foreigner with no username.

Next is to provide answers to the questions relating to your nationality and citizenship.
After filling the forms, you will then be taken to a page to confirm and accept the terms and conditions and say "YES" at the declaration page to the following:

I understand that if any information that I have provided for this application is false or incorrect, I will be liable to prosecution in accordance with Section 40 of the National Identity Register 2008 Act 750 as well as any other law or regulation which may be in force at the time.I understand that all the information and documents that I have provided in respect of this application are handled and stored by the NIA and I have the right to have them updated should they change.I declare that all the information contained in this application has been read, interpreted and explained to me in a language I understand and I perfectly understood and approved same before my hand was guided to make my mark.

After that, you will get the option to download the completed form. You will also receive an email with a link to the completed application form. In your application history page, click the ‘Download Application Form’ button to download your application for print.
Once you have printed the form, kindly go to any National Identification Authority (NIA) registration centre with the printed copy of your application form to apply for your FREE Ghana Card. Don’t forget to send all mandatory documents with you to the NIA registration centre.

How long will it take to get your Ghana Card?
Your Ghana card can be taken at any NIA registration centre instantly once you have downloaded the form.
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How To Generate Digital Address With GhanaPostGPS For Your Ghana Card

The GhanaPostGPS App is here to stay after it is now being used in all official applications by the Government of Ghana.
There are numerous people out there that are still thinking about how to use this GhanaPostGPS App to generate their digital address and with this post, it’s there to educate everyone on how to create your digital address.
Before we begin the process and everything, let us take a look at these titles below.

GhanaPostGPS – What Is It?
GhanaPostGPS is known to be a global addressing system that uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology that best help to divide Ghana on a map into grids of 5 metres x 5 metres squares and assigns each one a special address.
There’s an application that is available allowing people living in Ghana to validate their home and business addresses in order to create national address registry for easy direction and identification purposes.

How to generate your digital address – GhanaPostGPS App
You may get generate your digial address for your personal or business use might depend on and here are the simple steps to follow.
1. Open Android Playstore of iOS and download GhanaPostGPS
2. Launch the app (GhanaPostGPS), then accept the “Terms and Conditions” to continue.
3. You can either register your phone number on the next screen, or click on “Skip Registration” when you want to use it just once.
4. Click on “Accept” to the permissions that appear on the screen such as Location, Record Video etc.
5. Now wait for information to load.
6. You will be presented with a kind of new screen where you will see your Digital address once your location information has loaded, and this is the just like: GX-Bleep-XXXX
7. Finally, you’re done. Now it’s up to you to save or write them down to use for Ghana Card Registration or any.

What to know when generating your digital address.
• Turn on phone location
• Then open GhanaPostGPS app
• Your unique address is going to appear next to the Digital address like sample, Digital Address: GA-5430125
• Be outside to have a correct digital address
• It will be good to wait for 5 to 20 seconds to confirm and validate your address.
• Make sure to enable all permission on your smartphone that are necessary for the app to run before generating your digital address.
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Joe Montana being an American Football legend and having Liquid 2 Ventures as his company and 500 Startups to invest a Ghanaian Fintech Startup, Chipper Cash, an African fintech startup owned and managed by Maijid Moujaled, who has been able to convinced the American footballer to invest in his startup. The startup, a no-fee, cross-border payments operating company, has been able to generate an amount of $2.4 million seed round.

Chipper Cash, the Ghanaian fintech startup, was founded by the Ghanaian serial techpreneur Maijid Moujaled together with his Ugandan counterpart, Ham Serunjogi. After going live last year in October, this has helped the startup to be part of the emergent fintech sector in Africa. Chipper offers no-fee, P2P, cross-border mobile-money payments in Africa, similar to Paypal’s version in Africa.

The Headquarters of Chipper Cash currently is in San Francisco (US), but has offices in Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya. Currently, the startup is having over 70,000 active users and has made 250,000 transactions for these users according to the Co-founder, Serunjogi.

To talk about the American footballer, “He was quite excited about what we’re doing and his belief that the next wave of [tech] growth will come from…Africa” said by the co-founder, Serunjogi as published on Tech Crunch.
500 Startups were led by Sheel Mohnot to invest in Chipper Cash. He compared Chipper Cash’s structure to PayPal as the commonly used and globally popular payments company. “When PayPal started it was just a consumer to consumer free app. It still is free for consumer to consumer, they but they monetized the merchant side. That model is tried and tested. It just doesn’t exist in Africa, so Chipper has the opportunity to do that.”

Plans moving forward with this investment
With the investment as seed funds, Chipper Cash will be launching Chipper Checkout. This will be a merchant focused, C2B, mobile payments product similar to Paypal. This would be the premium side of the fintech company. The organisation plans to use the income from the paid Chipper Checkout to support the no-fee Chipper Cash service.

Chipper Cash is planning to expand its operations in Ghana currently, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
The startup is developing structures and putting things in place to tap into the global remittance market in West Africa. This market according to the World Bank is worth $38 billion.
Ham Serunjogi and Majiid Moujaled met at Grinell College, Iowa, when they were doing their undergraduate degrees.
To wrap up, Ghanaian fintech startup convinces American football legend to invest in it and here's all you need to know.

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It is every webmaster's dream to be on Big G's first page. How to get there and quick has always been the problem for many. - 10 Best Ways To Crawl & Index Your Websites Quick

Even though indexing your websites in search engines doesn't guarantee you will land on the first page of the search engine, but it's an initial step to get there. Getting your site indexed means you're on track and ready to reach the first page any moment.
Since index websites in the various search engines have never been an easy job, we are providing you with 10 Best Ways To Crawl & Index Your Websites Quick In Search Engines. This will make your website/blog easily found by the search-bot spiders.

10 Best Ways To Crawl & Index Your Websites Quick In Search Engines
1. Submit your Sitemap to Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools)
One of the best and most efficient ways to get search engines to crawl your website(s) quicker is by submitting your sitemap in the search engines' Webmaster Tools. This tells the search engines that there are new pages and posts on your website(s) that need to be crawled and indexed.

2. Submit Your URL Directly to Search Engines.
Many search engines have the option which allows you to directly submit your websites' URL in them to be indexed. This very effective since the URL is crawled the seconds after it has been submitted. Bing Webmaster Tool still offers this option whiles Google Search Console you can use the Inspect URL option to perform the same function.

3. Link to Older Pages That Are Already Ranking Pages.
Linking building is another effective way to get ranked easily but you can't get rank when the search engines haven't crawled your website yet. Building great quality links by reaching out to other websites, writing guest posts, and writing quality content is an advantage. The best part about link building is that when you link to an old page that is already ranking in search engines, your websites' URL is easily found by the search bot spiders. This encourages quick indexation by the search engines.

4. Get Top Influencer Sites to Link to Your page: The Skyscraper Technique Makes It Easier
We talked about linking to old ranking pages in the previous option as an advantage to getting your website crawled quickly and index. By now I hope you have realized the importance of building links. Don't build links to just any website just because you need backlinks. When building links, get other quality sites and influencers to link to your website/page this will tell the search engine how relevant your website is as it is associated with high-quality relevant content websites. As such, the search engines will prioritize the crawling and indexation of your page. You can easily achieve this by using Brian Dean's SEO SkyScraper Technique.

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5. Create A Blog On Your Websites And Publish Frequently.
It has been observed that websites with blogs get an average of 434% more indexed pages. Create a blog on your website and make sure you update it frequently with quality content. This way you can easily be ignored by the search engines, anytime the "spiders" go through your sitemap they will find new links to update regularly. This is an easy way to build site authority and in turn, get pages indexed faster.

6. Create an RSS Feed for Your Website
When your setup an RSS Feed for your website, it does not only get your website easily crawled but also gets you a lot of readers as many people will be reading your website's content by using an RSS feed reader. Once you create an RSS Feed, it would automatically update. This is just another effortless way of telling search engines there’s something new on your website that needs their attention.

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7. Write Guest Post On Influential Website
By writing, guest posts on influential websites on your niche, you can link back to your website. This will increase both your Page Authority (PA) and Domain Authority (DA). If you write quality guest posts on influential websites like HubSpot and Quora, you can get backlinks that will help rank your website for free.
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Here’s An Introduction to ICT Catalogue as a technology blog in Ghana!
You are first of all welcome you to ICTCatalogue.com as a tech blog in Ghana.
I first of all, kindly wish each and everyone a happy day to this tech blog in Ghana as they struggle hard to achieve success at the end of the day. But please as you are working hard, then also learn to work smart because in the world of money making, people who works smart are those people making it a lot in the world of technology for making money. By the way, the above is just a simple, brief but good informative idea I just gave and I hope one day I would publish an article on that on ways of making it with technology and everything that is needed for you to gain success in the world of dotcomology.

In terms of technology, there are many ways to make from it and it depends on the field you choose and the sort of field you are expected in. Someone like a website developer is a person likely to be developing websites for clients just online and be making money from this as a passion and someone who is found to be a graphic designer is likely to be doing graphic designing jobs on the gig websites available online such as Fiverr, CediJob or 15Ghana as Freelancer etc.
For today, I’m going to introduce to you some brief about the passionate technology blog now functioning as a technology website in Ghana and beyond. I said this because this tech blog is going to be known worldwide and some of its popular countries would be Ghana, U.S, U.K, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Kuwait, Qatar, India and some that I cannot mention here for now due to time sake.
ICT Catalogue is the title of the website and the name of the guy behind is, Emmanuel Atigah, who is popularly as ATIGAH.
ICTCatalogue.com is proudly a technology blog, people even say website but whatever, it’s a website with the vision and passion of reporting on all latest news on technology and bringing to you latest technology gadgets that you don’t know and have not heard before but it’s our priority as a technology addicted to bring to you as a viewer. With the aims of the Staff at ICT Catalogue, it’s the desire to be reporting to you on all technology trends covering;
• Tech lifestyles
• Technology apps such as software, hardware, gadgets and devices
• I.C.T Reviews
• Best I.C.T tips and tricks
• Latest I.C.T job opportunities, I.C.T career and Exams
• I.C.T news in Ghana and beyond Ghana.
Even though there can be other things to be fused into this technology journal making it somehow entertained by adding some sections like entertainment, business, gossips, fashions, relationships but the passion for technology is what makes Staffs at ICT Catalogue technology website proud to be proving you with all current and latest technology updates from the corner of technology experts.
In Africa, technology is what we lack the passion for, showing no interest to it, but in terms of the western part of the world, technology is what is making them advanced in all they are doing. This is because a child of 5 years old may start using a computer for playing computer games be it playing games online or offline, youth of 17 years old, may start learning how to hack into a computer database, how to hack computer files, how to hack banks and the rest but in Africa, a person of 25 years old is now learning the basics of computer from how to use a computer, introduction to desktop publishing and so on. Haaha! That’s funny right?
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This calls for the need to have passion for technology devices and gadgets and to know how to use it effectively and efficiently.
As I’m about to conclude with my statement, I may say technology is one of the tools for nation’s development so people need to partake in the use of technology and show interest in it by buying its components.
With the above information given, I hope it gives you brief information of ICTCatalogue.com as a technology website in Ghana functioning in all part of the world.
I hope to hear from you by commenting on this technology journal with the comment box given below and also help us share this article with friends online.
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How Technology Has Increased Social Gaps In Education
Simple and educative article on how technology has helped by increasing the social gaps in our education system and a recommended article by staffs at ICT Catalogue.

Technology has become part of our everyday life and there’s no way we can live in a single day without technology. With this, the application of Science and Technology has helped to make the life of mankind easier and simple. Machines that are made are all from the ideas gotten from the application of Science and Technology, access to the internet, various websites and social media sites are all what we can mention not to forget about.

Technology was invented by humans to bridge the communication gaps but not to forget that aside this as the primary aim of inventing technology, it was also meant to help spread through many other areas of human endeavor which is including education. This development has not taken successful effect yet in stitching the social gaps in education but rather the differences that seem to increase as more technology products are invented each and everyday.

Education always turn around the cycle of inequality and social class. With this, the rich parents always send their children to schools that are with amplified facilities having teachers with updates knowledge, children of the poor on the other side too, are sent to the public schools. Before this, public schools were about the best schools with some of the latest facilities and things has now changed not to also talk about the unspeakable gap that technology has filled.

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The discrimination we are talking about would have been fair enough if it stopped at schools but no; it spreads uncontrollably into the society like virus. Infact between schools and the society, we can hardly say which is influencing which. To avoid many doubts, here are some of the ways technology has inspired social-gaps in education.

It has modified discrimination
The Knowledge gaps
Affordability is relative
Online education

It has modified discrimination
Discrimination often presents itself in several ways, racial, gender, age and economic but in an academic setting, the discrimination takes advantage of school ownership. From the way we have it today, private schools are the birthright of the rich and powerful who could afford to pay the big bills. If by chance you see a child from a poor background it must be through sponsorship or scholarship. It is in this platform that you meet children choosing playmates or clicks that are of same social status.

Students and kids alike bring along their tech gadgets for use in school; if you do not have it, you are to find your levels. The most intimidating of all is when students tend to keep trends with latest the gadgets and buy them as soon as it’s out for sale.

The Knowledge Gap
You cannot possibly equate the IQ of a child who is exposed to several methods of learning to one that is only familiar with normal class room sermons. The introduction of virtual reality and augmented reality into education has totally enhanced how pupils and students gain learning experiences and even the method of learning but the experience is totally different in a local schools, low financed schools and of course public schools.

Affordability
In terms of affordability, it is known to be one of the only thing standing between knowledge gap. If you can afford tech enhanced education, you have, if you can not you go for less. In the early days of education, admission was based more on advantages than any other factor but as of now, money is the first on the list if you need quality education.

Online education
Online education provides as far as ICT is concerned, is a valuable opportunity to bridge this skills gap, helping workers gain the skills required to pursue entry-level jobs in growing fields like technology, business, healthcare, and data science. Sometimes, workers who can effectively up-skill will be in a competitive position to obtain better paying jobs that employers have a hard time filling.

Summary:
In summary, implementing technologies in our classrooms are one of the merits students can use to learn and develop the passion for the use of technology gadgets in their everyday life

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Nice write up, in terms of using ICT efficiently in education, the only way is to help our kids to develop the passion for technology in classrooms from infancy. Useful post is found here: https://ictcatalogue.com/how-technology-has-increased-social-gaps-in-education/