U.S. Embassy congratulates Anne Amuzu of NandiMobile and Eunice Ogbogu of Eugo Terrano on their selection for the Eighth Annual Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women's Mentoring Partnership Program. This public-private partnership, conducted in coordination with the Vital Voices Global Partnership, connects emerging international women leaders with Fortune's Most Powerful Women Leaders to encourage the next generation of women leaders to bring positive change to their companies and communities.

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), based in Accra, Ghana, is one of the partners in VC4Africa's partnership network, bringing in various ventures to VC4Africa, including Dropifi, ClaimSync, Saya Mobile and RetailTower. MEST offers a three-phase entrepreneurial program designed to foster the growth of globally successful software companies from Africa through training, funding, and incubation.

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opinion Earlier this year, Forbes Africa named Africa's top 20 tech startups. No Rwandan company made it to the list: maybe this will spur us into action so as to make it on the continental (and then global) playing field.

Speakers and youth leaders from across Africa will participate in TEDxYouth@Bukoto, to be held on December 14, 2012 in Kampala, Uganda.

Speakers and youth leaders from across Africa will participate in TEDxYouth@Bukoto, to be held on December 14, 2012 in Kampala, Uganda. This forum will showcase innovative solutions to some of Africa's most pressing challenges - solutions that have been envisioned and implemented by Africa's most dynamic and creative young change-makers.

Speakers and youth leaders from across Africa will participate in TEDxYouth@Bukoto, to be held on December 14, 2012 in Kampala, Uganda. This forum will showcase innovative solutions to some of Africa's most pressing challenges - solutions that have been envisioned and implemented by Africa's most dynamic and creative young change-makers.

You Are Here: Home " Politics " Ghana elections: The last bet on social media for votes as campaign ends Official campaign activities ended yesterday Wednesday December 5, 2012 as Ghana rounds up for its December 7 elections. And all TV, radio and newspaper campaign adverts have been banned.

This year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has been the biggest yet. Nearly 3,000 people poured in to watch a wonderful keynote by top product CEO Jack Dorsey, talks with legends like Reid Hoffman and Ben Horowitz, and they were standing in the aisles during Michael Arrington's historic post-IPO interview with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg today.

Saya Mobile Has A Message: It Wants To Be The Whatsapp For The Feature Phones Of The World

TechCrunch will have a decent presence at the upcoming Dublin Web Summit in October, featuring co-editors Eric Eldon and Alexia Tsotsis and yours truly speaking the event, which also runs just before the so-called 'Davos for Geeks' event known as F.ounders.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNN) -- No one saw Marissa Mayer's appointment as the new CEO of Yahoo coming. I certainly didn't! However this is great news for women in tech. Her appointment has sparked a lot of debate as she becomes the 20th current female

"Around the world, youth are struggling to find work. And although the reasons are well known - poor education, poor governance, poor economies - the problem is only growing. In both developed and developing counties, youth-centric solutions are scarce." - From "Opportunities for Youth Development," a joint presentation from IDEO and the Rockefeller Foundation Is youth entrepreneurship the answer?

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNN) - No one saw Marissa Mayer's appointment as the new CEO of Yahoo coming. I certainly didn't! However this is great news for women in tech. Her appointment has sparked a lot of debate as she becomes the 20th current female CEO of a fortune 500 company.

Start-ups continue to mushroom across Africa's fertile business and ICT landscape. Few of these would be in a position to move past the initial startup phase, if it was not for the involvement of venture capitalists (VCs).

This is a guest post by Adam Jackson is a San Francisco-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He issues a rallying cry to get startups happening outside the Valley, using the methods used in the developing world. You can find him on twitter at @adamjacksonsf.

Ohio emerges as venture capital hotbed Blog entry: July 16, 2012, 12:00 pm | Author: SCOTT SUTTELL Ohio is emerging as a hotbed for venture capital, according to this story from VentureBeat. "According to the most recent Ohio Venture Capital Report, venture capital activity in Ohio was up more than 80 percent in 2010, surpassing the national average, which was up only 20 percent," VentureBeat reports.

The nominees list for a newly instituted award scheme for applications apps developers in Ghana has been released. The scheme, dubbed TopApps 2012 Award was designed by event organizers, PopOut, to showcase the innovation of young app developers in Ghana and reward the top innovative and cre

Africa hardly seems like an obvious place to look for the next wave of entrepreneurs. But because the continent has leapfrogged PCs and gone straight to mobile, angel investor Adam Jackson thinks they have as good a shot as any.

TopApps 2012 Award was launched on April 5th, 2012 by Madam Dorothy Gordon, Executive Director of Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre Of Excellence In ICT, during the Online 2012 event. The aim of the award is to showcase the innovation of app developers and award the top innovative and creative ones.

Article publié dans le supplément Science&Techno du Monde daté du 22 octobre 2011 La technologie qu'on utilise compte moins que le problème qu'on résout, ou le service qu'on offre. Tous mes interlocuteurs africains sont d'accord là-dessus.

Two Ghana ICT experts have been named in top positions among top African 'tech-prenuers' whose exploits and businesses had captured the attention of global markets, and had been accredited by internationally recognized and respected business programmes and media houses, including Forbes Africa.

Going by recent international coverage, Africa has the attention of the West as a thriving market that is ready to join partners and help develop socio-economic conditions. The Obama Administration recently unveiled enhancements to the country's Africa foreign policy, indicating plans for renewed economic growth, trade and investment - under the condition of socio-political and economic stability in regions.

MEST - the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology - plans to back the new wave of startups in Africa, and build a sustainable eco-system

Growing up as an adopted Korean boy in the cold climes of Norway, Jorn Lyseggen would have had no idea that one day he would be spearheading a technology renaissance in the sweltering heat of a West African state.

MEST Graduates 17 ICT Professionals Into The Global Market

MEST graduates 17 ICT professionals into the global market News Date: 12th June 2012

Accra, June 12, GNA - Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has graduated it fourth batch of 17 young Ghanaian Information Communication Technology (ICT) Scholars after a two year programme in software entrepreneurship. The students pursued the programme to acquire the needed ICT skills to become successful software entrepreneurs and to help create jobs and wealth locally.

NCR commends Ghanaian women, girls in telecom/ICT sector The Network of Communication Reporters (NCR) in commemoration of this year's World Telecommunication Day, has congratulated Ghanaian women who have blazed the trail in telecommunications and ICT development in the country.

Two young women who have blazed the trail in developing and offering ICT solutions in Ghana have appealed to the government to set up a proper fund to support ICT start ups in the country. The two women are Sheila Penelope Bartels-Sam, CEO of Incharge Global Limited, and Anne Amuzu, CEO of Nandimobile.com.

The Network of Communication Reporters (NCR), has called on the players in the telecoms and ICT industry to collaborate with the institutions of higher learning to set aside some of their respective scholarship budgets specifically for girls who show interest in Telecoms/ICT Engineering and its related courses.Consequently, it has also

TELECOMS As Ghana joins the world to celebrate this year's World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) in Accra, stakeholders and industry players are been tasked with upskilling girls and women to join the ICT sector. WTISD on 17 May marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union.

The time for Africa to look outside the continent for cutting edge technology is quickly fading into the past. Home grown entrepreneurs, startup incubators, and quality business degrees are found in every major African capital. The rapidly growing ranks of aspiring, technology entrepreneurs is being boosted by Startup Weekend, a 54-hour event that has taken place in seven African countries in the past 10 months.

Entrepreneurship in Africa is on the rise. In Ghana, tech startup Dropifi is helping companies manage and respond better to inquiries from existing and potential clients. In Nigeria, Bloovue, an ad network, is connecting companies with their customers no matter where they are.

London - The available African consumer surveys show there is an audience for computer and mobile phone games but there is little evidence that anyone is much focused on trying to produce local games. For the brave few games developers already doing it, the business model is both confused and constrained.