ACry4Tech

@backyard_dj So such a basic need for road safety is a humongous achievement? Got it!

I’ve lost my appetite for this country, good luck to everyone 😭

@ampadu_psamuel If that's true, then you self your technology to foreign investors or simply partner with the foreign investor then move the technology out of Ghana... That solves it! 😂

Ei if NITA bill is passed I can’t seek foreign investment ?? Brooo what?!

This bill is serious: a private company attempting to hire local talent to maintain or contribute to open-source architectures, or an employee, would be restricted to a state-approved talent pool, limiting their ability to hire self-taught prodigies with no state certification.

@SelasiSepenu The easiest demonstration is to build in your home, seek funding abroad, then move your technology there. That's the best way to solve problems like this when those in charge fail to listen. The very thing they want to protect with iron-clad hands, leaves!

This NITA bill issue can be easily overlooked online(I mean new media). The best way to effectively go againsy this is a demonstration or traditional media. Let's explore these alternatives more

@1957_GHPatriot They wanna monopolize it so that whoever is in charge can easily do as they please...

Parliament is about to vote on a bill that decides who can build Ghana’s digital future, who can work in it, and who can go to prison for touching a keyboard without permission. This is the real threat picture in the NITA Bill. Section 35 says you cannot “engage in a business or related activity in the ICT sector” without a licence from NITA. That sweeps in everyone from a one person dev shop in Kumasi to a cloud provider in Accra. Operate without a licence and the law treats you as a criminal, not a startup. The penalty is not a slap on the wrist. The bill puts fines of 2,000 to 5,000 penalty units and up to two years in prison on the table for running an unlicensed ICT business. We are not talking about fraud or cybercrime. We are talking about writing code and shipping products without a government permission slip. Now add section 46. No public or private institution can appoint an “ICT professional” unless that person is certified by NITA. If you run a fintech, a hospital, a logistics startup or even a church IT desk, every systems admin and developer is supposed to queue for one Authority’s certificate before you can legally hire them. Layer section 90 on top. Providing ICT services without a valid licence, or claiming to be a certified professional when you are not, carries the same criminal penalties. You have just turned self taught devs and student freelancers into a compliance risk that can carry jail time. Section 37 closes the trap. Only Ghanaian citizens and entities “wholly owned” by citizens may even apply for ICT licences. That is not gentle local content. It is a full lockout of foreign or mixed ownership from the licensed ICT space. The same government that markets Ghana as a digital hub is writing “locals only” into law. If you have ever sat in a combat information center or a continuity/control war room, you know what this kind of design does. You create a single point of failure by handing one Authority control over who can operate, who can work, and who can be punished. When that Authority is slow, captured or simply wrong, the whole ecosystem pays the recovery cost. NITA should exist. We need standards for public ICT, a national digital architecture, and real oversight of critical systems. What we do not need is a digital command economy where every ICT business and professional sits behind a gate that opens only when a central office says so. A sane fix is on the table. Limit compulsory licences to clearly defined critical infrastructure. Limit compulsory certification to people working on those systems. Replace the citizens only rule with minimum local equity plus strong local content and skills transfer. Strip criminal penalties out of ordinary licensing failures. If Parliament passes the bill in its current form, the recovery time for the damage will be measured in years of lost investment and talent flight. The House still has a window to correct course. MPs on the Communications Committee should not treat this as another routine bill. It is a structural change to how Ghana’s digital economy lives or dies. @koboateng @kwekutech @pazunre @jdghinson #NITABILL2025

The leaders of Ghana have been failing since 1992.... MAKE THIS MAKE SENSE!!!

@DjoletoT Are Ghanaian investors and wealthy folks available to invest in tech? From experience, even in the most advanced technological countries, when investors don't understand the tech, they don't invest. Now that it can only be Ghanaian investors, how many of them understand tech?

Section 37 of the bill restricts licence eligibility to Ghanaian citizens aged 18 and above, or companies "wholly owned by a citizen." “Wholly owned. Not majority-owned. Not substantially Ghanaian-controlled. Wholly owned. In a global digital economy where technology firms raise capital internationally, form joint ventures with foreign partners, attract diaspora investment, and participate in multinational development programmes, this provision would disqualify the vast majority of serious technology companies from operating in Ghana's ICT sector. We are, at this very moment, competing with Rwanda, Kenya, and Senegal for ICT investment and for the continent's emerging technology talent. Kigali has just become a regional headquarters for technology multinationals. Nairobi's Silicon Savannah attracts billions in venture capital. Dakar is building digital infrastructure at a pace that would make Ghanaian planners blush”.

@SerwaaPreimann @DjoletoT @YOUNGSAFO what is happening here?

@DjoletoT tribal marks were once a beauty standard, but because of colonialism, we see them as a disfigurement. sad!

He got back from work and his mother-in-law had given their one-month-old baby Tribal marks … What would you do if you were the husband?

@dev_concept @NITAGhana When the tech is novel, sell it to another country or partner with someone in another country so the Ghanaian government will pay huge amounts to have access.....lol

DID YOU KNOW IF THE @NITAGhana BILL 2025 IS PASSED INTO LAW, YOU CANNOT BUILD A SIMPLE TO-DO APP and EXPERIMENT UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT authorizes YOU? think about it🤣

@Deladem___ @pazunre @GhanaNLP @NITAGhana When the tech is novel, sell it to another country or partner with someone in another country so the Ghanaian government will pay huge amounts to have access.....lol

@pazunre @GhanaNLP @NITAGhana Whoever drew up this bill and consulted on this, do they know this will just make people do business elsewhere? The Ghanaian market is already small and struggling , then you want to stifle people on top. Like what is the aim? To kill the small innovation people have?

Eiiii, so when @GhanaNLP invented the world’s first Ghanaian Language AI - 5 years before @NITAGhana knew what an LLM or even AI was 😂 - we would have to seek their permission first? 😂 Do we now have to travel back in time and ask for you permission for advancing Ghana? Eiii

@yaa_aminu I think they should leave since there is no funding.

I'm very impressed with the engineering talent coming out of Ashesi university. Here's to hoping that we're able to retain them in this country.

@AmbitionAK_ Win-win Affair

UK BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND!!! Okay what to watch on Netflix…

@AmbitionAK_ Darling, I've never produced anything. You've got the wrong guy.

@Kofiben2 Did you do the same when you was producing win win affair Massa.

@DesmondBredu Educate us please! 😭

There is so much misinformation on social media about investments especially on shares/stocks & the Ghana stock exchange. Please don’t take everything you see as truth. Do some research.

@HillaDoe @NITAGhana @kwekutech The fundamental issue is the unfairness in the power structure. The power structure of Ghana operates in a favoritism and nepotism manner; therefore, innovators who are not affiliated with the power structure may be left out. No matter who is in power, they play the same game.

Ghana wants to be a regional techhub & at the same time @NITAGhana wants to regulate who is allowed to work in the tech sector and which tech products get operational licenses. This is a bad idea 👎. #NITAdropthebill, shoutout to @kwekutech for consistently pointing this out

@YOUNGSAFO @VikyInsights @NyameBekyere92 That @NyameBekyere92 guy, he needs deliverance

@VikyInsights @NyameBekyere92🤝😎

To the guy reading this: I hope your next relationship teaches you that love can be peaceful and you do not have to suffer to be loved. 😎 ♥️

@Mr_Gidiglo @YOUNGSAFO @SerwaaPreimann come for him wai.... 10kg each I'm guessing and your man dey suffer like that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ah Michael Owusu Addo?😂😂

@SerwaaPreimann @YOUNGSAFO @OtPersimmon The devil has given me a task to press necks today...🤣🤣🤣🤣

@YOUNGSAFO @Kofiben2 @OtPersimmon isn't he supposed to be at work? lol @Kofiben2 no work today?

Stop infantilizing short women! Stop infantilizing small women! Stop infantilizing petite women!

@khenYourBoy Lots of horny men out there...😂

Gyakie and Sefa dema sex appeal be crazy o🫢