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  "id": 6177645,
  "title": "Sam George opens Girls-In-ICT Open Day, urges girls to lead Ghana’s digital future",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/sam-george-opens-girls-in-ict-open-day-urges-girls-to-lead-ghanas",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-07T21:17:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/sam-george-opens-girls-in-ict-open-day-urges-girls-to-lead-ghanas-digital-future/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, officially opened the 2025 Girls-In-ICT Open Day, urging young girls to embrace technology, innovation, and artificial intelligence (AI) to help shape Ghana's digital future. The five-day programme, which brings together 100 outstanding beneficiaries from the Volta and Upper West Regions, aims to equip girls with the skills, confidence, and opportunities needed to become the next generation of technology leaders. The Minister emphasized the importance of women in fields such as AI, cybersecurity, software engineering, and data science, and encouraged the participants to move beyond being mere users of technology to becoming creators, innovators, and problem-solvers.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "3News",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/mtn-ghana-to-invest-1-1bn-over-3-years-in-network-expansion-sam-george",
        "published": "2026-09-07T12:19:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Adom Online",
        "title": "Ghana Post delivered over 85,000 passports to applicants’ homes in seven months – Sam George",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/ghana-post-delivered-over-85-000-passports-to-applicants-homes-in",
        "published": "2026-09-07T19:53:21.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}