Africa

  • Initiating Open Government in Ghana

    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...
  • Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012

    The Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012: Sarkodie Takes the Lead!

    The Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2012 promises to be a night to remember, celebrating the best talents in the Ghanaian and African music scenes, with Sarkodie leading the nominations. The excitement is building as the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) 2012 nominations have been unveiled. With a total of...
  • Binyavanga Wainaina: How Not to Write About Africa. Narrated by Djimon Hounsou

    When Bono edited the Africa issue of Vanity Fair, it included an essay written by Kenyan Writer – Binyavanga Wainaina. Through that, they became aware of another piece he’d written for Granta a number of years ago called “How (Not) to Write About Africa.” Director Jesse Dylan and his...
  • Google Ghana Day – g|Ghana 2012

    Google to host Google Ghana Day to engage with the community of developers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs in Ghana. 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...
  • Frustrated Innovation – Ory Okolloh; @KenyanPundit

    Africa‘s technology community will thrive only by facing up to the continent’s fundamental problems. – By Ory Okolloh Africa is trending, if stories in the international media over the last year are anything to go by. And no story about “rising Africa”—many of us would argue it has “arisen”—is...
  • Learning from Kenya: Mobile money transfer and co-working spaces

    TheNetWeb on M-Pesain Africa and how the heads of Visa, MasterCard and American Express could learn from it. Launched as a pilot project in March 2007 (with help from a Vodafone investment and aid from the Danish government), M-Pesa already has more than 15 million users, 80% of Safaricom’s...
  • Mobile Web East-Africa 2012 – Nairobi, Kenya

    The East Africa edition of the All Amber organized mobile technology conferences, Mobile Web East Africa 2012, is set to take place in Nairobi on the 22nd and 23rd of this month. The conference is supported by Kenya’s *iHub and m:lab East Africa. The conference is organized by UK based company All...
  • Ghana Ranked No. 8 on Facebook Usage in Africa

    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....
  • Perspectives on Traveling Within Africa | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

    On February 12th, I left Accra en-route to Nairobi to work on a project by Blogging Ghana on Ethiopian Airways with a 3hr lay-over in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We touched down at Bole International Airport (formerly known as Haile Selassie I International Airport) at approximately 20:45 GMT+1 local time....