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It has been 10 years since we at the  GhanaThink Foundation  started organizing  Barcamps in Ghana . These free networking forums have been the major way to recruit most of the current members of GhanaThink. Earlier in May,  Duncan Gablah , one of our most active members, had a wish. He asked me: " Tell us how you recruit members of GhanaThink Foundation". It was a question that has spurred this blog post. I initially answered by saying " I have hardly picked out people to be recruited for GhanaThink ". In fact, only a few fall into this category. Some of those are ⁨ Adelina Martey⁩  ( @justdellez ), ⁨ Gerald Sowah⁩ , ⁨ Enoch Robot Boy Appiah Junior  ( @iamrobotboy ), and ⁨ Sabina⁩ Pwasam  ( @spwasam ). In fact, a lmost all GhanaThink members asked to be part of the organization. They showed interest, were willing to volunteer, put in the work and were given more responsibility as time went by. B asically, I like to test people and see how they perfo...

It is never too early to do a curriculum vitae as a friend told me recently, even at age 13 (which is how old you have to be to have a Twitter and a Facebook account :-D. I did my first one using my experiences in Presec while I was applying to MIT for undergraduate study, in a unsuspecting way. We discussed CVs in the 10 Jobcamps that we  GhanaThink Foundation   organized in  May 2018 , one in each regional capital. May 1st is May Day and we have since crowned May as the workers' month. These networking forums were funded by  STAR-Ghana . We had several great discussions about unemployment, underemployment, gainful employment and entrepreneurship in  Accra ,   Koforidua ,  HoCity ,  Kumasi ,  Sunyani ,  Wa ,  Tamale ,  Bolgatanga ,  Cape Coast  and  Takoradi . These CV discussions have also occurred in Whatsapp groups, which have become extremely popular in Ghana and in Africa. I share some of my major th...

In May 2018, the  GhanaThink Foundation  ( of which I lead )  organized 10 forums on solving unemployment in Ghana , one in each regional capital. May 1st is May Day and we have since crowned May as the workers' month. These events were called Jobcamps and were funded by STAR-Ghana . We had several great discussions about unemployment, underemployment, gainful employment and entrepreneurship in  Accra ,   Koforidua ,  HoCity ,  Kumasi ,  Sunyani ,  Wa ,  Tamale ,  Bolgatanga ,  Cape Coast  and  Takoradi . A lot of the discussions were on certificates. Such discussions have also occurred in Whatsapp groups, which have become extremely popular in Ghana and in Africa - and where I think Google & Facebook groups should get to so far as discussions. I share some of my major thoughts below. We at  GhanaThink  have had several instances where Ghanaian youth have told us they would not come to our Barc...

I have always believed that we need to talk about wealth creation instead of poverty alleviation, in Ghana, Africa and globally. Job creation is very important for wealth creation. It was really great when Bernard Avle recommend the GhanaThink Foundation to STAR-Ghana to work on an employment related project. The results of our discussions were Jobcamps - free networking forums bringing people together to discuss jobs and (un)employment Ghana. These were organized by the GhanaThink Foundation and funded by STAR-Ghana . These were organized in May 2018, workers’ month - from 9am to 2pm. I led the organization of Jobcamp Ghana , working with various local teams within the GhanaThink Foundation . It was fun doing this 'roadshow' and exploring public transport on a more personal level. The Jobcamps made me realise that we have too many small and medium scale entreprises in Ghana and not enough bigger companies that could employ hundreds of people. It was also clear tha...