Two women-led tech organizations are helping turn Ghana into Africa’s next tech hub. Africa is beginning to assert itself as one of the next global tech hubs, with African startups pulling in $2 billion in venture capital in 2019. Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa are considered the continent’s major tech hotspots, but Ghana has begun to make its way into the conversation, with $111 million of that 2019 VC money going to Ghanaian companies
In an inclusive world, everyone feels safe and empowered. “I want one-half of the world’s population to have just as much power and influence and money as the other half,” says Cloed Baumgartner, Innovation Enabler and Expert for Circular Economy, Impact Funding, and SDG. “Every woman in this world has the right to shape her life and career in her own way. And this must also be visible structurally, in all laws, and in women’s own bank accounts
U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan and Mobile Web Ghana CEO Florence Toffa cutting the ribbon of American Corner Agbogba with Counselor for Public Affairs Virginia Elliott, Greater Accra Reg. Dir of the Ghana Library Authority Mr. Tamakloe, and REPS Alison Mckee Accra, GHANA – The U.S. Government, through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ...
According to the United Nations, that is the percentage of women worldwide who say they have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, or, sexual violence by a non-partner. With approximately 50 people present this afternoon, that would be almost 18 people in this room alone who actually self-reported such incidents. Many more such crimes go unreported.