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#Ghana60YearsOn: #MightyAfrican stories, thoughts and hopes

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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...
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More Vim from Hyderabad: Scaling Innovation and Lessons from India’s Tech Revolution

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India is home to arguably the biggest per capita number of competent cost-effective software engineers and techies. In April 2005, I visited India for the very first time thanks to my involvement with the World Summit Awards (WSA) . For the 2024 cycle, in an unprecedented showing, 3 of the 40 winners globally were from Ghana. They were the Achieve Investment App by Petra, Chango by IT Consortium and Khaya AI —by the Ghana NLP Project. I leveraged this visit to confirm what I knew before, learn more about India, network with folks, etc. A lot of us have heard about Bangalore , being the main IT city in a country that houses the most techies worldwide, amongst its population of 1 billion. While at MIT , I learnt about the multiple India Institute of Technology (IIT) institutions. They are amongst the most competitive academic environments in the world. I would not call you an idiot if you have not watched the 3 Idiots movie, but if you have not, go and watch it right away! The mov...
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Participating in Championing Ghanaian Innovation at the WSA Congress 2025

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I finally got to visit India for the first time thanks to my involvement with the World Summit Awards (WSA) . For many years, I have been recommending Ghanaian startups to be nominated for the WSA. For the 2024 cycle, I joined the online jury aside from my regular contributions in nominating Ghanaian built innovations . 3 of these ended up becoming global winners, which made me really proud. For the 2024 cycle, in an unprecedented showing, 3 of the 40 winners globally were from Ghana. They were the Achieve Investment App by Petra, Chango by IT Consortium and Khaya AI —by the Ghana NLP Project. The WSA National Expert for Ghana, Dorothy Gordon, suggested that we organize a bigger delegation to India for the WSA Global Congress (in Hyderabad, Telangana), supporting these winners. Led by Dorothy, we were able to get some sponsorships to cover our flights and accommodation. The Congress was from April 6-9, 2025 . I needed to get a visa to travel to India and the WSA team alongside Dor...
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