Mac-Jordan Degadjor's Blog

According to the World Economic Forum; Africa is on the brink of a major transformation. Over the last decade, the continent was home to six of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies, and the outlook for the region remains bright at a time when the rest of the world is facing major political and economic challenges. About 52 per cent of the world’s populations currently live in urban areas; by 2025 this should increase to 58 per cent. Nearly all [...]

If you are serious about taking your online visibility to the next level and feel like a “newbie” or a “skeptic” when blogging/blogs are mentioned; then BlogCamp 2012 is your ideal event. The 21st century has become synonymous with social networking of which blogging plays a major role. Blogging has become a mainstream form of self-expression today. It is also a great way for businesses and brands to get their message out to their customers. When it comes to building [...]

Ghanaians go to the polls in December 2012 to vote in the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections to either elect a new President or maintain the current government. In other to help streamline the voter registration process, the country is now implementing its first-ever biometric voter registration — in other words, using fingerprint technology to help verify identity. Ghanaian Bloggers and Social Media Activists are also using social media to publicize the process, correct misconceptions and increase overall attention about the [...]

Very exciting to see Google and the Judicial Service of Ghana publicly announce a partnership to digitize and publish judicial opinions! For over a century, the laws of Ghana have lived in courtrooms and leather-bound books where lawyers and judges across the country can refer to rulings from years ago. Information was often out of date and only accessible to a select few. To improve accountability and expand access to this critical national information, Chief Justice Georgina Wood decided to [...]

The nominations for the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012 were announced on February 29th. Leading the pack is the now Notorious-Most-Talked-About-Azonto-Champ: Sarkodie with 12 nominations. Sarkodie‘s 2009 smash hit “U go kill me” is still going strong with 3 nominations at the 2012 VGMA. “U go kill me” is nominated for Hiplife Song of the Year, Most Popular Song of the year, and Best Rapper of the Year nomination. He was also nominated for song of the year, record of [...]

The Google Africa team is thrilled to announce their 3rd annual g|Ghana, happening from March 19-20 at the Alisa Hotel, Accra. They’re looking forward to engaging with the community of developers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are as passionate about technology as they are. Day 1: Developer and Webmaster Day 1 will focus on hands-on training from Google engineers specializing in popular tools such as App Engine, Android, Maps, Google+ and Webmaster Tools. There will also be advanced labs for [...]

BarCamp Takoradi 2012 is happening on March 3rd at the Takoradi Polytechnic Auditorium.The theme is “Empowering the emerging middle class in a budding economy: efficient use of technology in entrepreneurship”. This is a FREE event for anyone who is interested in using their skills, talent, and resources to benefit Takoradi, Ghana and Africa as a whole. It will be a networking event to bring people together for a day of discussion, demos and dialogue about Takoradi, Ghana and beyond. The event also hope to assemble [...]

Yesterday during lunch at the Pizza Inn on the Ngong Road by the Uchumi Supermarket, the question about the number of Ghanaians on Facebook came up again after it was reported that, Ghana is the least country that uses the micro-blogging platform – Twitter.

Determined to provide an avenue for businesses to reach and connect with customers efficiently, Edward Amartey-Tagoe; co-founder of Nandimobile is focused on creating platforms which empower connections between businesses in Ghana and their customers. They launched a new product, Infoline, one of the biggest mobile business directories in Ghana. Infoline is simply a business directory service that enables mobile users in Ghana search businesses from a directory of over 18,000 local businesses in Ghana via SMS. A search result typically constitutes business [...]

Tomorrow; 6th Jan, 2012 – Rhapsody’s Restaurant & Pub located inside the plush Accra Mall will serve as the venue for the first Venture Capitalist for Africa – VC4Africa Meetup from 6:00pm till 9:00pm. What is a VC4Africa Meetup? Second to networking online, VC4Africa makes use of the Barcamp model (an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop/events, whose content is provided by participants) to organize our very own series of VC4Africa Meetups. We like this open [...]

Congratulations to the winners of the App 4 Climate Challenge (West Africa). From the Apps4Africa Blog: 1st prize $15,000 – HospitalManager by Victor Ogo Ekwueme (Nigeria) HospitalManager is a web-based application that helps hospitals and health organizations prepare for disasters such as floods and storms. More frequent heat spells, rains, and floods are leading to heath emergencies, both due to the event itself, and later to water related disease. HospitalManager will help hospitals in Nigeria, and potentially throughout Africa, identify [...]

Congratulations to Bright B. Simmons (TED Fellow) named one of the top mobile health innovators of 2011 by the mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation. Bright Simmons is the founder of mPedigree, a mobile phone and cloud-computing platform designed to combat counterfeit drugs by providing instant, free access via text-messaging to a drug quality verification system in Africa and South Asia. His work is channeled through his mPedigree Network and the IMANI research institute, ranked as one of the world’s 20 [...]