GhanaWeb
Background
The GhanaHomePage is a comprehensive resource about the country Ghana. On this website you can find lots of news, information and entertaining stuff and get in touch with (fellow) Ghanaian people.
The GhanaHomePage was conceived in 1992 by Francis Akoto, a Ghanaian living in Finland. In those early days the World Wide Web only consisted of a few thousand websites. Search engines such as Altavista did not yet exist and Yahoo was still running on the student computers of Jerry Yang and David Filo. As such it is no surprise that there was no information what-so-ever about Ghana on the World Wide Web.
Francis Akoto put the first version of his GhanaHomePage on a server of the University of Tampere in Finland. As such the GhanaHomePage is propably the very first Ghanaian site on the Internet.
Initially the GhanaHomePage consisted of a few pages of information about Ghana but it quickly expanded to a very comprehensive resource. And it didn't stop there. Francis Akoto also updated the website daily with news from Ghana and soon visiting the site became a daily routine for the ten-thousands of Ghanaians working and studying abroad.
In 1999 the GhanaHomePage was re-located from the University server to the domain www.ghanaweb.com. At this stage Rob Bellaart, a Dutch publisher, assisted Francis Akoto with securing the future of this unique project. To this effect the GhanaHomePage was transformed into a third-generation website making it the first Ghanaian website using advanced technology such as dynamically generated HTML, databases and user-customization. The entire site has been implemented using OSS (Open Source Software)
In the past years the GhanaHomePage has experiended tremendous growth. The traffic expanded with 430 % in 1999 and is still growing with 5-10 % per month. Currently the site attracts 60,000 unique visits on average per day while the site generates well over 15 million page impressions per month . The site is probably the only Ghanaian website and one of the few African websites to cross the magical limit of one million page impressions per month. As such GhanaWeb offers excellent opportunities to advertisers and investors.
Our Services
Essentially the GhanaHomePage is here to serve people like yourself. We trust that the daily updated news from Ghana, the sports items and the numerous informational page will encourage you to visit us regularly. Just like the numerous people who already consider the GhanaHomePage to be their second home. Feel free to browse around. Don't hesitate to give us feedback and tell us what you like and what can be done to improve this website.
Mobile Website
The GhanaHomePage is also available as a mobile website. This mobile website allows you to access the latest news from Ghana on your mobile phone. You can acces this service at http://mobile.ghanaweb.com.
RSS feeds
The headlines of the latest news are available as RSS feeds. You may use these feeds free of charge to enhance your own website.
Advertising
Do you have a personal or business website which is related to Ghana? If so, then we encourage you to register your website for free for inclusion on GhanaWeb. Additionally we offer the possibility to put free classifieds
For very affordable prices GhanaWeb also offers banner advertising and several other formats.
Click here for advertising information on GhanaWeb
Contacts: Webmaster
Deputy Webmaster
Advertising
Address: GhanaWeb
Poederooienstraat 66
1106 CK Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel. (+31) 207700126
(+31) 206977764
Fax. (+1)815-6429100
Privacy Policy
GhanaWeb and its advertisers are commited to protecting the privacy of Internet users.
Consumer info
GhanaWeb does not collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, address and telephonenumber. GhanaWeb does obtain some types of non-personally identifiable information such as the Internet Service Provider you use to connect to the Internet, your browser type, or the type of computer operating system you use (Macintosh or Windows, for example). This information is used to improve the website by - for example - analyzing which pages are popular and which pages need to be improved. The collected information is not sold to third-parties.
Opt Out
GhanaWeb uses cookies to attach the above mentioned non-personally identifiable information to your computer. These cookies are used for determining which banner (=advertisement)is eligible for displaying to you. Cookies are also used in our popular Say It Loud forum to remember your pseudonym and email-address in case you contribute to the forum and to keep track of the various pseudonyms which you may use as a contributor.
You may stop this usage of cookies by GhanaWeb at any time by disabling cookies in your browser. In the helpfile of your browser you will also find information about how to remove existing cookies from GhanaWeb from your computer.
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