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The African University College of Communications(AUCC) in collaboration with Ghana Telecom University College & Penplusbytes (The International Institution for ICT Journalism), has organized an international symposium on communication, new media and development at the Discovery House Campus of AUCC at Adabraka, Accra.

Ninety (90) participants from the civil service, universities and media organizations in Ghana attended the two- day symposium which began on 4th June 2009 and ended on 5th June 2009. The theme for the symposium was “Assessing the contribution of communication and new media to human development in Africa.”

The special guest of honour for the programme, Hon. Haruna Iddrissu, Ghana’s Minister of Communications, stated in his address that the current information society had the capacity to reduce many traditional obstacles in education, increase productivity and generally generate economic growth in Africa. He stated that the onus was on communicators to take advantage of new media to get the right messages delivered to all segments of the society. He however cautioned communicators not to misused technology to spread negative content.
The keynote speaker for the symposium, Africa’s distinguished communications scholar from Benin, Prof. Alfred Opubor, presented a paper on the topic “The Communication for Development and the Development of Communication Debate: What relevance for Human Development in Africa?” .