White House honours Ghanaian Social Entrepreneur Dr. Ashifi Gogo as 'Champion of Change'.
Dr Ashifi Gogo is being honoured for his innovation in developing Sproxil - a mobile technology that helps combat counterfeit medicine and consumables. Dr. Ashifi Gogo and eleven others were felicitated at the "Champions of Change" event at the White House that highlighted immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs -- the best and brightest from around the world who are helping create American jobs, grow the economy, ...
Ghanaian Journalist - Emmanuel Dogbevi Awarded Columbia University's Knight-Bagehot Fellowship
Ghanaian Journalist, Emmanuel K. Dogbevi has been awarded one of Columbia University's top Fellowships, the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. He was named among 10 top economic journalists as 2013-14 Knight-Bagehot (pronounced Baj-et) Fellows of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, USA. The 10 Journalists will spend nine months studying at the university ...
US Ambassador Gene Cretz’s Remarks at Blogcamp Ghana 2013
Ladies and Gentlemen, Bloggers & Social Media Enthusiasts, friends in the Media, Thank you for inviting me to Ghana’s first ever Social Media Awards ceremony. I agree with Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Tara Sonenshine that: “social media has evolved into the most powerful, galvanizing catalyst of our time – for better and for worse. It is arguably as significant an event in our shared human histor...
#IFF2013 Fellows Tour Civic Society Org in Washington, DC
The Washington, DC Chapter of the Internet Society describes the 2013 Internet Freedom Fellows as "Six Heroes Of The Internet" who are working hard to route around firewalls and filters in other to go about their online activities in promoting Human Rights, Innovation and Freedom of Speech both Online and Offline. There’s an informal discussion and reception hosted in our honor at the George Mason Univers...
State of the Nation Address 2013 - #SOTNGH
This morning, the President John Dramani Mahama will deliver his first State of the Nation Address to parliament. The address is in line with Article 67 of the Constitution, which mandates the President to at the beginning of each session of Parliament deliver a message on State of the Nation. Ghana's Twitterati and Social Media enthusiasts will be monitoring and commenting on the the President's maiden addres...
Storm breaker says:
The Ghanaian Communication Minister did not actually know what was at stake. Even if he knew, he did not care that much. You never allow the cat to play the role of a dog. We ( I.T. geeks and developers) will have to bring something up to solve this, if not Government will perhaps deny us access to the various social media platforms.Did The Next Mark Zuckerburg Just Graduate? - Ventures Africa says:
[...] at DEMO in San Francisco in October this year. Additionally ClaimSync just completed the 3-month Health XL accelerator in Dublin and Dropifi are currently part of the 500 Startups accelerator program in [...]Did the next Mark Zuckerburg just graduate? | Blog says:
[...] at DEMO in San Francisco in October this year. Additionally ClaimSync just completed the 3-month Health XL accelerator in Dublin and Dropifi are currently part of the 500 Startups accelerator program in [...]Joseyphina says:
So proud of him! I'm so happy when i hear such creative people raising the flag of Ghana high!