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Gov't welcomes CSOs partnership in promoting social accountability

  Participants @Social Accountability Multi-Stakeholder Forum, seated third from the right, Kwami Ahiabenu,II    CDD File: Delegation from Rwanda The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo, has expressed government’s commitment towards supporting Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)-led social accountability initiatives because of its belief in partnerships between government and the citizenry. He said government continues to demonstrate that zeal through the organisation of the Annual Policy Fair which brings together, government, CSOs and the private sector as well as development partners to dialogue on policies and programmes that could help government provide social services to the populace. In a speech read on his behalf at the two-day Social Accountability and Multi Stakeholder Forum in Accra, Mr. Marfo said in Ghana, participation of citizen in development was enshrined in

What is BlockChain Technology?

By Kwami Ahiabenu,II  Blockchain is a good example of distributed technology in action. Invented in 2008 to run the peer-to-peer digital cash, Bitcoin, this technology has evolved to power other applications for things such as copyright protection, tracking of ownership, voting, digital assets management, among others. Blockchains are essentially a digital ledger which chronicles transactions and makes them publicly available. How does it work In the parlance of cryptocurrency, a block records a new set of transactions. Once this transaction is completed as a block, it is added to the chain, resulting in a chain of blocks; blockchains. Since elements of blockchain are encrypted (the data they contain is coded and unreadable, thereby preventing unauthorised access), processing these transactions involve the solving of complicated mathematical problems which become more difficult as the blockchain builds up. “Mining” is the process of solving these equations and the miners are rewarded w