The chances that you have interacted with an artificial intelligence program is staggering. It takes money to make money and right now a lot of that money is being directed into the development of artificial intelligence. In the last few years, several high-profile tech giants, such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have all shared their opinions on the coming industrial revolution ruled by artificial intelligence and machine learning. From hedge funds to venture capital firms to investments banks, robots are creeping into trading floors and helping traders perform better whilst smart systems are becoming more involved in critical decision-making ranging from healthcare to the criminal justice system. Maybe justice is too difficult for humans to administer alone and unbiased artificial minds could help balance the scales on critical judgements bordering on hate crimes.​

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The world is rapidly entering an era of new money gradually shaping the new world order. Cash is increasingly becoming a mystifying artifact of a bygone era. For centuries past, money as a medium of exchange has evolved and continues to evovle. Societies addiction to cash is gradually weaning. To a lucky few money is no object and to many others money is an object – tearable, flammable or even wearable.Money has also been an object of obsession , inquiry, aspiration, remorse, delight, disdain, curiousity and just about any sentiment imaginable. It has been represented by little metal disks and rectangular strips of paper to credit and debit cards, checks , money orders, lottery tickets, gift cards and now in some cases ones and zeros on distant computer servers as e-money.

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The unveiling of Tesla's model 3 as an affordably priced middle-class electric vehicle (EV) is heralding a dawn of a new era. In recent weeks, both France and the UK have committed to phasing out petrol cars fully for new car purchases by 2040. Moreover, a study from Cambridge Econometrics and partners on oil market futures estimated that climate action, like better improved fuel efficiency standards and measures to facilitate the spread of EV's, may reduce oil demand by around 11 million barrels per day (mbpd) in 2030 and by 60 mbpd in 2050.

As Donald Trump rejects free trade and pushes the Donald Doctrine, the EU and Japan are set to sign a sweeping free trade deal that will ease protectionism and touch on sensitive areas such as the export and import of cheese and car parts.

With the world population expected to grow to 10 billion people by 2050, the demand for food and protein is expected to increase significantly. A new generation o chefs, farmers, sustainable eaters and adventure eaters is embracing entomophagy.

The world bank has approved $ 150 million International Development Association credit for Transport Sector Improvement Project (TSIP) in Ghana. The facility is aimed to improve regional connectivity in the Northern Region involving rehabilitation of feeder roads to link Agricultural value chains.

What do you do when you inherit an economy with $ 30 billion of debt, paying GHS 10 Billion every year in interest payments, and in every three months , you go into the market to get money meant for the private sector to pay interest on your debt and wages and salaries of workers?'' Ken Ofori-Atta quizzed ? A decision to re-profile Ghana's debt . ( increasing tenure of debt obligations to a longer term).

A UK Company known as Pro-Teq has developed a spray on coating that stores ultra-violet particles from the sun during the day and releases them as blue light during the night. The technology is currently being used in Cambridge home to the world's first glow-in-the dark path, known as the Starpath.

The U.S decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord boosts China's stature and diplomatic power and furthers China's ambitions to upgrade its economy and dominate lucrative new industries.

The Belt and Road initiative is an ambitious development campaign through which China wants to boost trade and stimulate economic growth and influence across Asia and along the proposed Belt and Road routes.

The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st - century Maritime Silk Road, also known as the Belt and Road initiative (B&R) is a development strategy proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Eight commercial banks have signed a USD 630M 26-year financing for a United Arab Emirates solar power project, with Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority as lead sponsor.

Syndicated banks involved:

BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking, Natixis, Norinchukin Bank and SMBC .

Facility Type -Power Purchase Agreement

rate - 120bp over libor for first 5 years

- 190bp over libor for next 20 years.

Tenor - 25 years.

Commercial operations for the project are expected to begin in 2019.

According to Adnan Amin, the director general of IRENA, ''Africa's solar potential is enormous'' he said in an interview with Thompson Reuters foundation. The continent gets 117 percent more sunshine than Germany which today has the highest installed solar panel capacity.

The University of Michigan has figured out how to use Kirigami to make solar panles up to 40% more efficient.

Researchers on a team led by Max Shtein, a professor of materials science at the university of Michigan, have figured out a new way to make solar panels that follow the sun, maximizing the area in which its solar receptors are exposed to photons at all times a day. These panels known as the Flexible, amorphous panel strips are made of gallium arsenide that are cut in a kirigami-like fashion. The result is solar panels that can pull apart with just a little bit of force to follow the sun's arc.

''Land of the Rising Sun''. The characters that make up the name ''Japan'' spell out ''Sun-Origin''.

After the Fukushima crisis, there has been rising concerns in Japan concerning the expansion of the nations nuclear power. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared an end to the Japanese nuclear power expansion plan.

Kan told reporters : The current basic energy policy envisages that over 50% of total electricity supply will come from nuclear power while 20% will come from renewable power in 2030...But that basic plan needs to be reviewed now from scratch after this big incident.

Japanese officials were set to unveil a new "Sunrise Plan" at the G8 Meeting. The plan will require all new buildings to be covered by solar panels by 2030, and result in 10 million solar powered homes.

Solar power is expensive, right ?

Actually, the high cost of alternative energy is a good example of a mesofact. As this graph shows, the cost of producing photovoltaic cells has dropped two orders of magnitude over the past 35 years, bringing costs within range of fossi fuel energy production.

The underlying cause of this disruption is a phenomenon that solar's supporters call the Swanson's law named after Richard Swanson, the founder of SunPower.

As part of government's efforts to reduce unemployment among the youth, the One District-One Factory (1D1F) initiative is expected to facilitate the creation of some 3.2 million jobs nationwide by the end of 2020.

In addition, some 7,000 to 15,000 jobs are to be established in each of the 216 districts in the country. This was announced by Mrs. Gifty Ohene-Konadu, National Coordinator of 1D1F project, during a media briefing at a stakeholders' fourm in Accra. According to her the initiative was instituted by President Akufo-Addo to address the challenge of slow economic growth at the district level.

The 1D1F programme will be launched in June this year with the start of work on 10 new factories.

Mrs. Ohene-Konadu confirmed that the secretariat had received the GHC 450 million earmarked in the 2017 budget to kick-start the project.Besides government's commitment, she said interest in the programme had generated investment pledges and committments to a tune of US$3 billion.

The 1D1F programme will be implemented with the private sector to provide business and financial management, regulatory and legal compliance, links to strategic partnersfor market and community access.

Mrs . Ohene-Konadu told the media that the financial support for the projects would start from a minimum of US$5,000 to a maximum of US$10,000 based on project size and operational categorization.

The June launch of the programme will be the second major initiative after the 'Planting for Food and Jobs' programme was unveiled recently.

The Canadian governmnet and the world bank are supporting the farming programme with $125 million and $50 million respectively.

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