I granted the following video interview to ICTWorks.org in January 2011, and spoke about ICT for development, mobile communications, e-commerce, web hosting in Africa. Enjoy.

Mobile Web East Africa 2010 conference photos. Click on the photos for a larger view. Some rights reserved.

I’m live at the West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) in Accra, Ghana. The event started on a good note yesterday with a lot of introductory speeches by various stakeholders in the African Internet industry. AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, has a mission to support Internet technology usage and development and to [...]

I would be delivering a presentation at the up-coming ComBIT Africa event, organized by AITEC Africa. The event holds between 2nd and 4th November 2009 at Lagoon Conference Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. I would be speaking on Day 1 during the second session on “The impact of submarine connectivity on the region’s web hosting industry” and [...]

I was interviewed by Wayan Vota of ICTworks.org during the recent Maker Faire Africa 2009 in Accra Ghana and we discussed the present e-payment challenges in West Africa. A challenge that presents an opportunity since Paypal is ignoring Africa. The interview has just been published in a post titled: “Google & Paypal Leaving Cash on [...]

It was an unscripted outburst, but when it came, it was welcomed with a standing ovation. Meet Patricia, a Ghanaian lady who attended the Maker Faire Africa 2009 event at AITI-KACE in Accra Ghana. She was serving as a Twi interpreter but took time to deliver an unexpected speech that left the audience motivated and [...]

I managed to take over a 100 photos last Sunday which was the final day of Maker Faire Africa 2009, at AITI-KACE in Accra Ghana. I have created a full album dedicated to the flicks. Enjoy the sights you missed if you were not there. I should find time to give them proper captions over [...]

Having spent several years in art and advertising, digital photography was the only next logical step for Nana Kofi Acquah (NKA), a Ghanaian professional photographer, who refers to himself as a “world citizen”. Nana Kofi was one of the exhibitors at the recent Maker Faire Africa 2009 technology exhibition at AITI-KACE in Accra Ghana. NKA [...]

I consider myself a strong Mozilla fan and was thus excited to have met the team of Mozilla volunteers and enthusiasts that exhibited Mozilla souvenirs at the Maker Faire Africa 2009 technology fair. The team was made-up of young Ghanaians who are seeking to create a recognized Mozilla community in Ghana. The Mozilla Foundation is [...]

The first edition of Maker Faire Africa was successful by any standards. The 3-day event drew exhibitors from countries including: Brazil, Guatemala, Tibet, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, Liberia, Pakistan, Uganda, Madagascar, India and Cote d’Ivoire. There were several guests from the USA especially and I got to meet many leading tech bloggers for [...]

There is a technology-related event coming-up in Accra Ghana this weekend. Find excerpts below from makerfaireafrica.com Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the AITI Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana’s capital, Accra. – This event is free to the [...]

I am extrapolating a list of 10 most IT-ready African countries from The Global Technology Report 2008-2009 (a PDF document). The Report stresses the importance of ICT as a catalyst for growth in the current global turmoil and it underlines that good education fundamentals and high levels of technological readiness and innovation are essential engines [...]

ChamsCity is a new subsidiary of Chams Plc and is a facility that is expected to become the biggest cyber café in the world. The ChamsCity ICT centre has 1,000 computers housed in a single building. The cyber centre, located in Lagos, is one of several digital malls that are being built across the country [...]