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Rethinking Startup Finance in Africa

I had a wonderful opportunity to have a discussion with Eric Osiakwan an African tech luminary from Ghana and director of Ghana’s Cyber City initiative about startup financing in Africa,...

Who Deserves Our Thanks? Health Workers Who Save Lives

Sarah DwyerI’m afraid of snakes. It’s such a clichéd fear that I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but there it is. Hiking on a steep and winding trail recently, I turned a corner and almost stomped on a giant snake.

An Analysis of the role of ICTs to achieving the MDGs

Focusing on African countries, the objective of this paper is to carry-out an analysis of the key challenges and the uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote socio-economic development, and, in particular, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with a specific focus on poverty alleviation, health, education, gender equality, and environmental sustain

Use of ICT in Tertiary Education in Ghana: A Case Study of Electronic Learning (E-Learning)

Population growth & the increasing number of people seeing the relevance of education as well as demand for tertiary education in Ghana have been on the rise yearly. Tertiary institutions have been unpleasantly turning away large numbers of qualified applicants due to lack of facilities.

Crowdsourcing ideas to co-create a smarter future

In preparation for the February 28 ICT Solutions Day, the World Bank ICT team is piloting a crowdsourcing initiative to develop innovative ICT-enabled solutions for client countries.

Who Let All Those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on Internet Exclusion

Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage in Ghana, the subject of her (excellent) book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana.

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