The Penplusbytes Story Series – Celebrating 20 years of Change Pt III
My earliest memory of Penplusbytes is a lunch meeting I had with Kwami Ahiabenu and Eric Osiakwan around 2003. Kwami…
The Penplusbytes Story Series – Celebrating 20 years of Change Pt II
The journey of twenty years of Penplusbytes started from very humble beginnings. We identified the need to support and train…
The Penplusbytes Story Series – Celebrating 20 years of Change
In the early 2000s, journalists worldwide had a problem – lack of skills, knowledge, and new digital technologies to enable…
Penplusbytes celebrates 20th Anniversary
Penplusbytes is 20 years old! From a start point of driving innovations in quality journalism through the use of new…
VPNs and their usefulness: the case of Nigeria’s Twitter Ban
Have you ever connected to a public Wi-Fi network and wondered if someone, somewhere might be able to monitor your…
Must You Always Speak? A Look At Fake News And Freedom Of Speech Amidst Covid-19
By Joyce Hilda Efia Aboagye The Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Article 19 stipulates that everyone has the right to…
Penplusbytes Seeks Equitable Healthcare and Education for Citizens in Ghana And Mali
Penplusbytes kicks off its Health Education and Resource Equity (H.E.R.E.) and Now project in Ghana and Mali on the back…
Twitter chooses Ghana as host for its first African Office
Global social media company, Twitter has established its first physical presence on the African continent in Ghana. The company says…
The Upsurge of “work-cation” in a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has popularized “work-cations” — going on a vacation, but working while there. Just because work-from-anywhere means we…
New social media rules hold users accountable for behavior offline
New rules from tech companies are making it harder for users with sketchy reputations in the real world to become…
What’s Clubhouse, and how can you use it to report?
You no longer need to write or share visuals to reach a large audience — now, you can just talk.…
The year virtually everything went online
2020 was a year like no other and 2021 proves this. For many middle-class Ghanaian families, a typical day right…