I was at the startup weekend organized by the Global Entrepreneurship Week Ghana team last weekend. It was an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brought together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people to develop selling business ideas and applications. The event started on 18th November and ended 20th November 2011. It was interesting for me to see that out of the eight teams that presented their ideas to the panel of Judges; Richard Tanksley -MEST, Jim Kaubisch – MEST, Ekow Spio-Garbrah – former CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), six were mobile apps.
Global Startup Battle.
Happy Hour with the US Embassy and Internet Fellow Mac-Jordan Degadjor.
This year, the Internet Freedom Fellowship was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Ghana was represented by Mac-Jordan Degadjor, a blogger who has been actively reporting on key issues in Ghana since 2006. During the recently ended Read more...