{"id":24721,"date":"2021-10-28T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=24721"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:06:52","slug":"state-of-internet-freedom-in-ghana-2021","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/state-of-internet-freedom-in-ghana-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Internet Freedom in Ghana &#8211; 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana is making impressive strides in internet connectivity. \u00a0In January 2021, Ghana\u2019s internet penetration rate reached 50% with cumulated mobile connections of 41,690 000 from four telecom companies for an estimated population of 31,400,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>While the country is inching up to the global average of 62% penetration rate, issues of creeping intolerance of critical publications on the internet; activities of cybercriminals and other deviants to exploit internet users; inequality of access to the internet between urban and rural segments of the population; and digital gender gap are some of the barriers hampering many Ghanaians from fully benefiting from the opportunities the internet offers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more details and additional information about the internet freedom environment in Ghana in the year under review (2021), click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2021-Internet-Freedom-Report-Ghana-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24722,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[753],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-24721","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-type-reports","report-category-freedom-of-expression-digital-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/24721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}