barcampghana08
Sponsors
BarCamp Ghana 08 would not have been possible without the generous support from a number of organizations.
These sponsors had their logos adorned on our BarCamp Ghana T-Shirts which were sold at reduced prices of 5 GHC each, subsidized by these contributions. The T-shirts were designed and printed by OS Designs, based in Ghana.
The organizations were
The GhanaThink Foundation
Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT - AITI-KACE
Panels
There were two panels organized as part of BarCamp Ghana 08 under the theme – Fuelling Ghana’s Business and Tech Renaissance. The panels were on social media and mobile technology.
Breakouts
BarCamp Ghana 08 - Fueling Ghana's Business and Tech Renaissance - came off on December 22nd, 2008 and it was a success.
They were 12 breakout sessions organized (see BarCamp Ghana '08 agenda) - 4 each every hour for 3 hours.
The breakout sessions were
Data and Common APIs (Emmanuel Okyere)
IT outsourcing
Mobile technologies (Eyram Akofa-Tawia & Tim Akinbo)
Ghanaian NGO’s (Ato Ulzen-Appiah)
Health and technology (Esi Cleland)
Computer Science education (Shirley Somuah & Grant Dobbe)
Tweets, Pictures and Blog entries about BarCamp Ghana
Submitted by abocco on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 20:43BarCamp Ghana 08 - Fueling Ghana's Business and Tech Renaissance - came off on December 22nd, 2008 and it was a success. Below are a few links to blog entries from attendees about impressions, thoughts, comments and suggestions about this BarCamp and future ones. We also kept non-attendees informed about proceedings through twitter and we uploaded a lot of pictures on flickr. We are preparing notes, video and presentations from the BarCamp which will be available later. You can also join the mailing list at barcamp-ghana-08@googlegroups.com for more updates.
Twitter - http://twitter.com/barcampghana
BarCamp Ghana photos - http://flickr.com/people/barcampghana/
Keynote speaker BarCamp Ghana 08 - George Ayittey
Submitted by abocco on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 20:35
George Ayittey is a prominent Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC. He was one of the speakers at BarCamp Ghana 08 held on December 22nd. The organizers were excited to have him come talk about the 'cheetah generation' amongst other things.
He is a professor at American University and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has championed the argument that "Africa is poor because she is not free", that the primary cause of African poverty is less a result of the oppression and mismanagement by colonial powers, but rather a result of modern oppressive native autocrats. He also goes beyond criticism to advocate for specific ways to address the abuses of the past and present; specifically he calls for democratic government, debt reexamination, modernized infrastructure, free market economics, and free trade to promote development.
Keynote speaker BarCamp Ghana 08 - Estelle Akofio-Sowah
Submitted by abocco on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 07:50
Estelle Akofio-Sowah is presently the CEO of Busy Internet in Ghana and we at BarCamp are excited to have her as a keynote speaker for the first BarCamp Ghana event in December, 2008.
Estelle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a Ghanaian father and Scottish mother and was six months old when she was brought to Ghana. Her parents met in Edinburgh, where her dad was studying. She attended the Ghana International School. She proceeded to University in Brighton, Sussex University, where she pursued a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Development in the United Kingdom. After graduation, she returned to Ghana and landed a job with ProNet, a community based service delivery civil society organisation. She later worked with La Palm Royal Beach Hotel before settling down with SIMNET, a South African ICT company working in Partnership with the Department of National Lotteries.
Keynote speaker BarCamp Ghana 08 - Herman Chinery-Hesse
Submitted by abocco on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 03:41
Herman Chinery-Hesse will be a keynote speaker at BarCamp Ghana 08. As one of the most prominent leaders of the technology sector in Ghana and Africa as a whole, and a TED Global Fellow, we are pleased to have him.
Herman Chinery-Hesse is the CEO of Soft Tribe Ghana Limited and the BBC has described Herman as Africa's "Bill Gates". He was born in Dublin, and went to college in the United States.
Herman is a manufacturing engineer by education but a software engineer by profession having graduated in industrial technology from Texas University, San Marcos. He holds a number of directorships and is an Assessor of the Commercial Court, Ghana. He has also won a number of personal awards including being the only African recipient of the "Distinguished Alumnus Award" from the Texas State Alumni Association and Texas State University-San Marcos, USA.
Agenda
*Note that the agenda is a working document as such it is subject to change*
08:15-08:50 Sign-in and registration
09:00-09:15 Open remarks by Organizers
09:15-09:45 Morning Keynote
09:55-10:50 Panel - Mobile Technology
10:50-11:05 Agenda Building
11:10-12:05 Panel - Social media
12:05-13:00 Networking and lunch
13:05-14:00 Breakout Session 1
