Mugabe my Hero..Happy Birthday Old boy, time to step down.
Robert Mugabe celebrated his 87th birthday a few days ago, as a child my nicknames included Kaunda(ex-President of Zambia) and Mugabe, indeed one of my aunts still fondly calls me Mugabe. I’m not so sure I would like to be associated with the current version of Robert “Mad Bob” Mugabe. This hasn’t always been the [...]
mHealth Africa Summit—the Personal Emerging
Last month, I wrote mHealth: the Possibilities of the Personal about the importance of capitalizing on people’s personal attachments to and investments in their cellphones as a key to making mHealth programs scalable and widely successful. Then I went to Accra, Ghana for the mHealth Africa Summit, which gave me the opportunity to run this [...]
Telecom’s industry heats up in Ghana
In the excitement about Ghana’s Oil find one sector which is seeing impressive expansion and “big money” deals is not getting as much attention as it should from Investors and commentators alike. I get regular emails from people enquiring about opportunities in the Oil & Gas sector in Ghana,whilst the Energy sector becomes saturated with [...]
Who you calling Corrupt?
“In China they have efficient Corruption, you get what you pay for, In India they have inefficient Corruption, you never know who you will have to pay next” This statement was made by an International Development Guru on the BBC’s radio 4, it had me thinking about a discussion I had with an Oxford graduate [...]
Experts gather in London to review opportunities in Ghana
With the Ghanaian economy forecast to grow by 13% in 2011 if your company doesn’t already have a plan to tap into this market then you may be missing out on a big pay day. One of the key reasons for this boost in growth is the Oil discovery which many are hoping will change [...]
Opportunities for “mHealth” in Africa
The term “mHealth” is suddenly every where in the media these days, thanks to the likes Bill Gates, Vodafone Foundation and the Rockfeller foundation championing the possibilities that this innovative approach can bring to health not just in the Developing world but also in the Developed world. Recently in London a doctor created an [...]
mhealth Africa summit debuts in Ghana(Accra)
Africa seeks better health solutions through mobile technologies Global mobile communication and health experts are set to meet in Ghana this December to discuss appropriate and timely solutions to Africa’s pressing health problems. Delegates from across Africa, Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East will gather at the inaugural Mobile Health (mhealth) Africa [...]
DFID Looks to the Private Sector to help with the fight against POVERTY
This week saw the unveiling of what at first glance seems to be a radical shift in Policy by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). In a major speech this week Andrew Mitchell the Secretary of State announced that DFID will now be looking more to the Private Sector to bring in their expertise [...]
The Millenium Development Goals – Goals or Aspirations
Last week at the Department for International Development in London the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Nick Clegg was joined by Henry Bellingham the Foreign Office Minister for Africa and Andrew Mitchell the International Development Secretary. They announced that the UK was going to strive to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and encourage [...]
Africa needs more AID not less
Africa needs more AID not less Just kidding, caught you eye though didn’t it?… As someone who routinely criticizes the work of International agencies in Africa I was stunned when a friend asked me a while ago “What makes you think you can do a better job than them? Or is it just because you [...]
