Comcent, branded as the first community media platform in the world, is a project started by some university students in Ghana, led by Kwadwo Dwomo II, is set to be launched on Monday, 8th March 2021, at the University of Ghana, Legon, community and then followed up by other tertiary communities and subsequently in the real communities. This means that, first, only people who have affiliations with the University of Ghana community are to install the app from either Google Play Store or App Store.

The leader of the project, Kwadwo Dwomo II, who is a level 300 computer science student at the University of Ghana, Legon, wrote in a press statement that Comcent will be opened first to tertiary communities across the world. After the University of Ghana community, they wish to expand to the University of Cape Coast community and from there expand to the KNUST community. From these three universities, they will expand further to the University of Winneba community and all other tertiary communities in Ghana, after which they will move beyond the borders of Ghana to start with tertiary universities in Nigeria and to tertiary communities in other Anglophone countries in Africa and finally to the rest of the tertiary communities in the world. The communities outside the tertiary communities will be launched after a substantial number of tertiary communities are launched. However, they envisage that a piloting of some communities in Ghana and the world will be in process while the tertiary communities are being registered.

It has earlier been reported in the media that this community media platform has the goal of bridging the existing gap between the leaders and members of communities. Presently, no platform in the world solves this obvious problem. At a time where the world is facing several problems that threaten the future of this planet and our communities, social media has taken center stage in our lives. People rather spend their time entertaining their friends and family on social media platforms so that they could become popular. Not that everything is wrong with it, but the world would have been much better if the same time people spend on social media could be spent engaging with memembers and leaders of our communities about how to make life better for everybody living in that community. Perhaps, with the arrival of community media, there might be a paradigm shift from people expending time on social media to having real conversations that change communities and deepen democracy.

We are not sure how the public will welcome this innovation. Yet still, we are hoping the team behind this innovation will get many things right and come to stay for the better. At least, if leaders and members of a community start engaging with each other on critical topics, and changes start happening in our communities, our future generations will come to thank us for it.

Comcent as a name originated from both these two words: community and center. Rather than enabling communication among friends and family as it exists on social media, community media has a focus on enabling communication among the leaders and the members of a community.