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A friend posted as @Barcamp Takoradi's Facebook status update: "#Takoradi Born; Cecil Nutakor is the Winner of the Global Students Entrepreneur Awards 2010. http://is.gd/fNLIB/ We want him at BarCamp Takoradi. #BCTdi" Congrats to Cecil. Here is the story from the GSEA website Winner Announced! The GSEA has confirmed student entrepreneur Cecil S. Nutakor of Ghana, student at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Greenhill College, and owner of Equinox Intercom Limitied, to compete at the 2010 GSEA Global Finals in Kansas City, MO, USA. Equinox Intercom Limited is an electronic learning and electronic business application service provider with the aim of developing and providing products and services to the next generation of mobile empowered students and entrepreneurs in Ghana and West Africa. Check Cecil Senna Nutakor out on Facebook . On his Facebook profile, he lists himself as the Founder & CEO of Equinox Intercom Limited since August 2006 in Ac...

In 2017, the GhanaThink Foundation organized the GYSEC in partnership with Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) . Ghana Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GYSEC) was promoted as #GYSEC2017 . 20 budding social entrepreneurs were chosen out of 154 applications to learn, be trained, and compete. They were and are referred to as trainees. The training began in on January 30 and ended on March 19, 2017. They took an online course on Social Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking run by DOT. Within this period, there were 2 workshop at Impact Hub Accra where the trainees received in-person training. We in this blog post refers to GhanaThink of which I lead :-) In 2018, GYSEC has become a GhanaThink's 4th program. It would be referred to as the Ghana Youth Social Entreneurship Program (GYSEP) . The other 3 are Barcamp Ghana , Junior Camp Ghana , Ghana Volunteer Program . Maarifa Ndekezi, DOT Regional Program Development Manager, supported the DOT teams...

Late last year as we were planning BarCamp Ghana 2009 , the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) agreed to host our event for free. I was so excited! I was already a big fan of MEST but this made me love them even more. I knew about MEST when it started operating in Ghana through a good friend, Eyram Akofa Tawia. He had been taken as a Teaching Fellow in 2008. MEST is a training program owned by the Meltwater group founded in Norway in 2001 (a firm that provides Software as a Service solutions to over 15,000 clients worldwide. MEST was their social corporate part which they run as a non-profit. I have learnt about MEST throughout the last few months and wanted to show some appreciation for their helping the BarCamp on my blog. I once asked one of the main MEST gurus why they chose Ghana as the location for their training program. They said they looked at the globe and Ghana looked like it was in the middle of the world. Simply put. Basically MEST is a two-year training...

It's early in the wee hours of Saturday morning. I've returned home after being at the Odadee Torch & Bonfire night at Presec. I was wearing a black  +Barcamp Tema  tshirt. Many Odadee recognized me but also recognised Barcamp. Branding. I am not unable to be at  +Barcamp Bolga  which happens today due to prior engagements and personal reasons. I am sad though. I really wanted to be at Barcamp Bolga for the team. But like I've told many people, the Barcamp will run smoothly without me. That's the mark of maturity. The  +Barcamp Ghana  team is taking leadership, spearheading #bcbolga through  +kofi yeboah  and  +Leonard Hagan .  +Rachel Hormeku  and  +Senam Aseye Bridget  have done their part too, with  +Kobe Subramaniam  in the background.  +Abdul Razak Dimbie  and  +Baawuo Gloria  together with  +Daniel Yakuba   +Jon Mydaz  and  +Frank Bruce  are making the sec...

The time has come to host my profile somewhere on the web. There's no better place to start than here. :-) Profile of Ato Ulzen-Appiah Ato Ulzen-Appiah is a consultant, (social) entrepreneur, manager, social media champion and blogger . He hails from Elmina, grew up in Kumasi and lives in Accra . A notable alumni of Presec , he studied at MIT for his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and had his Master's degree at Stanford in construction and engineering management.  He's the director at the  GhanaThink Foundation which mobilizes and organizes talent for the primary benefit of Ghana . GhanaThink, since its inception, has given birth to Kasahorow and Museke . It currently runs the Barcamp Ghana program (111 events since 2008) from which the Junior Camp Ghana program was created (40 events since 2013). Through GhanaThink, he also initiated National Volunteer Day in 2013, which is now part of the Ghana Volunteer Program . He also led the training o...