The University of Ghana School of Law (UGSoL) is organizing short training courses in IT Law from 24th August to 11th September, 2026. The aim is to equip participants with the requisite knowledge to address frequently encountered legal issues raised by specific technologies through the selected modules.
Optional Modules/Dates:
- Cybersecurity Law (24th, 25th, 26th August)
- Data Protection Law (27th, 28th, 31st August)
- FinTech Law (1st, 2nd, 3rd September)
- AI and Robotics Law (4th, 7th, 8th September)
- Review (9th, 10th September)
- Graduation (11th September)
Who may attend:
- Lawyers/Judges
- Company executives
- Professional practitioners
- Political Leaders
- General Public
Pre-requisites:
No prior training in law, and no prior training in technology required.
General Description
The world is in the information age. IT permeates all aspects of human experience, and therefore increasingly adopted in our private and public institutions and organisations.
Harnessing the power of IT for increased productivity and personal efficiency requires an appreciable high level general understanding of technology, and the practical issues of governance, policy and law arising therefrom.
The IT Law program of the University of Ghana School of Law has therefore put short courses together, aimed at educating executives and professional practitioners unable to afford the time for a degree program under the University’s IT Law master’s program.
Training Objectives:
- Equip participants with understanding of basic information technology system concepts.
- Situate the issues of law and technology in the participant’s operational contexts.
- Explore the responses of law to issues of information technology.
Description of the Training Modules
Module 1:
Cybersecurity Law
(24th, 25th, 26th August)
Catalog: Basic computer concepts, internet governance, cybercrimes, cybersecurity law, fake content, deep fake, future technologies.
Description: The rapid evolution of computer technologies and the internet impacts all aspects of our lives. This presents new opportunities for enhanced societal and personal efficiencies. It also, increasingly, presents new crime opportunities and new ways of committing old crimes, raising cybercrime and cybersecurity concerns. This requires professionals and executives to have a high level general understanding of technology, along with the ability to navigate policies and legal frameworks that both maximize the benefits of technology and the internet, while minimizing cybersecurity risks to computing systems. This module therefore focuses on ensuring a good general understanding of computer technologies and the internet – creation, architecture, governance systems, cybercrimes and cybersecurity – and their impacts in corporate, institutional, court room and law practice settings.
Module 2:
Data Protection Law
(27th, 28th, 31st August)
Catalog: Privacy in the African value system, protection and control of data access, surveillance, online anonymity, social media and reputation, cross-border data transfers.
Description:
Computing technologies have become indispensable tools and resources of continuous presence in human affairs and transactions. Daily use of technology and electronic surveillance generate data about us and on us at every turn. The control of information is therefore of much interest to law and professional practice. Who uses data, who has access, and what is it used for? How is data protected from unauthorized access or misuse, what are the issues of privacy with stored data, what corporate obligations exist, and what rights of access does the law permit on data held by entities of public interest? These are some of the practical and legal issues that form the focus of this module.
Module 3:
FinTech Law
(1st, 2nd, 3rd September)
Catalog: Role of policy and law in the uptake of financial technologies in Africa. Payment systems, electronic and digital money issues – online, crypto, virtual, digital currencies, blockchain, bitcoin, …
Description:Technological advances have rendered traditional contract and commercial relations more viable and convenient to be conducted online on the local and global scale. Trading in electronic bits is progressively replacing face-to-face contracts, commerce and transactions. The focus of this module is the need for innovative thinking in the use of technology in banking and financial services through FinTechs.
Module 4:
AI and Robotics Law
(4th, 7th, 8th September)
Catalog: Basic understanding of AI, Robots; modern relevance of agentic and generative AI, LLMs; Big Data; driverless cars, drones, care and assistive robots; Internet-of-Things (IoT); robotic/human interface; conventional legal doctrines of jurisdiction, personhood, culpability, liability, ownership and rights revisited.
Description:
The contemporary issue of this module is the present technological trend of mankind increasingly ceding critical decision making to computer algorithms, artificial intelligence, neural network systems and autonomic devices, loosely known as robots. The module focuses on ensuring a thorough understanding of bodied/unembodied AI and robotic systems – what they are, how they are created, what they are used for, and their limitations. Agentive AI, generative AI, LLMs, Big Data, robots, drones, autonomous weapon systems (killer robots), cyber warfare, Internet of Things (IoT), driverless vehicles, Internet search engines, and general assistive technologies are discussed. Issues of jurisdiction, responsibility, culpability, and liability are treated.
Venue & Time
In-person (University of Ghana School of Law, and, Online (link to be provided); 5pm – 8pm
Registration Deadline 30th June, 2026
Fees
Ghc1,200.00 per module (15% discount for all four modules).
Award
Certificate to be awarded for each module.
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For further information:
+233 (0) 20 319 8444; ugsol-projectsunit@ug.edu.gh
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