Accra

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...

Cross-posting from VC4Africa Blog This past weekend, Startup Weekend Accra took place at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in East-Legon, an area in Ghana’s capital Accra. The event was sold out and attracted more than 100 attendees. On the last day (of the three day event) the winner...

From November 18th – 20th 2011; the first Accra Startup Weekend will take place at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in East-Legon, Accra. About Startup Weekend Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams,...

From October 6 – 8, 2011; Inventors, Developer, Makers, Idealist, Entrepreneurs, and Bloggers will meet-up on the campus of American University in Cairo for Maker Faire Africa 2011 under the hashtag: #MFA11. As was the case in Accra, Ghana (09) and Nairobi, Kenya (10); MFA 2011 will present and...

Yesterday saw a pool of budding developers from the tech community in Ghana, meet-up and pitch their apps/development to a jury at the AppCircus – Mobile Apps Ghana Showcase. Saya Mobile – a mobile group chat app still in stealth mode won the top honors. For their prize, the...

Don’t be surprised at innovations and ideas coming from Africa; but rather embrace them because Africa is the future. – Erik Hersman (TEDGlobal2011) One word that keeps coming out of the lips of most tech-preneurs these days in Africa and Ghana is; INNOVATION. Across Africa; especially in Kenya, Ghana,...

Step aside, Silicon Valley and Bangalore. A group of aspiring web entrepreneurs in Ghana are looking to turn Accra into the newest startup hub. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation is working with local developers through a training program called Mobile Web Ghana to give participants the business and...

Somewhere in February, 2010; I wrote a post for Global Voices Online entitled; “Is Ghana Ready For e-Voting?; in which I quoted the Honorable Communication’s Minister; Haruna Iddrisu urging the Ghanaian government to research more into electronic voting implementation by 2016 and not for 2012 elections. In the same...

This tweet below from one of the organizers of the Festival of Ideas conference got me very inspired to write this blog-post about the award recipients who happen to be young and energetic change-makers from Ghana in my Social Circle. Yesterday, I virtually joined and participated in Day 2...