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We called it the GhanaThink Foundation because we thought (and would continue to think) about Ghana. It's been more than 12 years since GhanaThink was born. It's also been a while since I did a blog post, or even wrote a piece for this #mightyafrican blog . Today is a great day to break that duck. Ghana is 60 years old ! We are celebrating, marking, reminiscing, criticizing, strategizing, thinking and doing.  I love #Ghana so much. It's great to mark #Ghana60YearsOn . #Morevim 4 all that we do. #GhanaAt60 : Less talk, more action. More vim to that. pic.twitter.com/oy793QMr8X — Ato Ulzen-Appiah (@Abocco) March 6, 2017 To be frank, I am not as excited about Ghana, mostly because of our growth pace, development we can fell in around us and in our pockets and the politics and antics I've seen that are hurting Ghana and don't seem to be abating. However, I have always been excited about Ghana. More than 10 years ago, I decided to stop bothering and focusi...

My friend and Presec yearmate  +Latif Abubakar  has become one of the best playwrights in Ghana.  We didn't have to do #DivorceOrSuicide after seeing #WhatCanComeCanCome so we went ahead to #ThankGodForIdiots anyway. And then we eventually had to go see   #MallamsAndPastors  because in this Ghana, its the thing to do. If you didn't realise, these hashtags are all plays that Latif has directed and his Globe Productions has produced. There's also Gallery of Comedies. But you've deciphered this by now, Latif stages really hilarious plays - comedies. He's back with another play - #ICantThinkFar . If you said "#ICantThinkMadness" after you're in tune with the times and trends in Ghana. So surely, you can imagine that this new I Can't Think Far play would be timely, trendy, terrific, teary-eyed-funny and tantatlizing. The best part for me about the play is that there is a tour and it would be showing in Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi and Ho. Wanna...

I've blogged about my longtime Eyram Akofa Tawia several times. You can read some of the blogs here. Living An African Success Story . Leti Games - building computer games in Africa . Leti Games named amongst Ghana's Innovation Heroes . Leti Games unveils iWarrior (iPhone App) & Kijiji (J2Me) . I helped inspire +Eyram Tawia  to write a book! Yes, a whole book! It has been published and it is being launched on Friday. Yes, this Friday. One of these blog posts is in the book. So you have to get the book :-) You'd hear Eyram and the  +Mighty African  himself on the  +Citi97.3FM  Business Edition with  +Benkoku Avle  tomorrow on the Citi Breakfast Show. You can't miss the book launch at  +Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology  on Friday @ 6pm . Eyram has touched many people, at +Barcamp Ghana  like Barcamp Ho and  +Junior Camp Ghana  events like Junior Camp Ketasco ! You can order the book via this li...

I love traveling around Ghana. I think I have been to more places than the AeroShutter drones have been. Arguably. I think I might get a drone one of these days. The AeroShutter drone have been around paa! See these lovely images they've captured. Skintight video Spot the drone! #SkinTight music video! pic.twitter.com/PD1ah43s9w — AeroShutter (@AeroShutter) March 12, 2016 Mole National Park The Lana Pond in the heart of Mole National Park. pic.twitter.com/L3ZTqduK8O — AeroShutter (@AeroShutter) December 1, 2015 Sofo line Interchange Kumasi Kumasi! The sofo line interchange.... pic.twitter.com/PMGsSD9jSh — AeroShutter (@AeroShutter) December 2, 2015 Zaina Lodge bird's eye view Zaina Lodge at bird's eye view! pic.twitter.com/otDcp6v4pE — AeroShutter (@AeroShutter) November 29, 2015 New government hospital video Footage of a new hospital project by the government. pic.twitter.com/ma7DtCv8PI — AeroShutter (@AeroShutter) October 7, 2015 ...

3 years ago, the +GhanaThink Foundation started the National Volunteer Day! It's still going strong. It has spread all across the country and spurred a spirit of volunteerism in Ghana. The impact is enormous and continues to grow with volunteer activities all year round. Read the press release below prepared by +Ghana Volunteer Program  lead +Ela Asare . Kudos to her and her team of +Enock Seth Nyamador   +Adelina Martey   +Felix Nartey   +William Osilaja Boampong  and +Gerald Sowah  for organizing this. The Ghana Volunteer Program (GVP) is a program being run by the GhanaThink Foundation, an NGO based both in Ghana and the USA. National Volunteer Day , which falls around the 21st of September each year, is our major activity. It was instituted as part of GVP in 2013. This year, National Volunteer Day activities can be organized on 17th, 18th, 21st, 24th & 25th September 2016 as well as other nearby dates. The initiative aims to get as many p...

In the recent beautiful Ghana Weekly Tech Roundup sent recently by +Claude Ayitey , he added that the  WAZIUP Internet of Things Project Launches In Accra .  +iSpace Foundation  is part of a number of organizations working on this cool WAZIUP "Internet of Things (IoT)" project, centered around agriculture.  He also added that  Vodafone M2M Is Now Vodafone Internet of Thing s , but you know of that because I blogged about that already. So I started wondering, how are Ghanaian organizations using IoT? Yes, we are. #Morevim to us! Photo by Kwamena Bolton I've known about Herman Chinery-Hesse , the Bill Gates of Africa , for a long time. I love how he and his team at SoftTribe , arguably the largest software development company in Ghana, focuses on developing tropically tolerant solutions for this environment.  Kwamena Bolton , the technical director of SoftTribe said that they have over the last few yea...

Thanks to technology services, there is a lot of data about users and uses cases, which allow organizations to be smarter and technology to work even better. In addition to this value in data explosion, there is enormous growth in intelligent use of the data. Platforms must orchestrate the data in hand to deliver value. They have to help users shift out the requisite information out of the chaff they see. The attention span of users and subscribers for that matter is very minimal, and so they need to be served with relevant information and data they need quickly and conveniently. We celebrate our mobile phone penetration in Ghana (35 million subscriptions for a nation of 25 million people), We have multiple devices connecting us for communication, but there is a wide range of other connected devices. By 2025, there would be 9 billion connected devices. Ghanaians must be part and parcel of those numbers with a lot of IOT use.  There has been very small uptake with mobile applic...