The Vim Views & Versions - Blogs of a MIghTy African

HMD Global , makers of Nokia Smartphones on Android OS have engaged a cross section of the blogging community in Ghana through a blogger hangout session. The engagement, which is the first of several blogger engagements anticipated for the year 2018 by HMD Global had about 15 bloggers in attendance. It was really good to bring these bloggers together since some of them hadn't met each other. Nokia - Connecting People! All the bloggers who were present at the event - including Ato Ulzen-Appiah ( #mightyafrican ) were given brand new Nokia 8 to boost their tech related news platforms as well as enhance the news content on their platforms using the bothie feature which allows tech consumers to take two angled videos simultaneously because it activates both the front and rear cameras to capture photos and videos. Various millenials and other digital natives have seen the Bothie ads on TV and YouTube. Nokia has married old iconic technology and future trends in this...

I've been a lazy blogger but I hope to change that in 2018. Posting on Twitter took over blogging for me and then Whatsapp took over from Twitter. People ask me how come I have a lot of time for social media. The simple answer is: Social media and social communication are very powerful tools that have really helped me, so I continue to use them while finding ways to make them bring more value to me and things I work on. But let's get into this particular blog post. :-) A GhanaThink member,  ⁨Mohammed M  Jaward ⁩ of the Barcamp Tamale ( #Bctamale ) team asked me a few questions sometime last year. These are questions I have been asked a lot. I want to share the answers here. I hope you might learn one or two things from this. Q1. What courses did you take on social media? Editor's note: Maybe this question comes from our certificate issues in Ghana? :-) You can take courses on social media, but I like learning by doing more. A1. #MightyAfrican: I didn'...

We started the National Volunteer Day on September 21, 2013 and it has grown leaps and bounds, fueling the GhanaThink Foundation's Ghana Volunteer Program. Ayekoo to its main team members, new and old - +Ela Asare   +Ali Bukari   +William Osilaja Boampong   +Enock Seth Nyamador   +Felix Nartey   +Adelina Martey   +krystabel vorsah   +Gerald Sowah   +Akosua Ofosuhene   +jon Mydaz   Read our press release on our 4th anniversary below! International Volunteer Day (IVD) on December 5 is an international observance designated by the United Nations since 1985. It offers an opportunity for volunteer organizations and individual volunteers to make visible their contributions - at local, national and international levels - to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). December 5th, 2017 marks four years since the inception of the Ghana Volunteer Program . This was created by the GhanaThink Foundation after the ...

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...