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- November 15th, 2008
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BarcampGhana 2008 - Dec 22nd Accra, Ghana
BarCampGhana 2008 will be a gathering of the most innovative minds in business, science and technology in GhanaHear industry leading Ghanaians speakers talk about their experiencesMeet and interact wi…
- October 30th, 2008
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TEDGlobal 2007 - Ernest Madu: Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to off…
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ARM - Nigerian Asset managers
From the Site:ssARM is one of Nigeria’s leading asset management and financial advisory firms with a global perspective in investment management. We provide a wide range of services worldwide to a d…
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MRM - Kenya Steel rolling manufacturing
MRM dominates the steel roofing industry in Kenya. The company pioneered the ultra thin gauge rolling for galvanized steel and cold rolled drawing materials for tube making, drum manufacturing and ste…
- October 26th, 2008
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Economist - Is the financial turmoil an opportunity africa?
Economist offers a unique view of the global financial crisis and the impact or opportunity that may effect Africa.Oct 9th 2008From The Economist print editionWith world markets in turmoil, an unexpec…
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PharmAccess - Building sustainable health systems in Africa
Since its inception in 2001 PharmAccess operates at the cutting edge of health sector support in Africa, pioneering innovative approaches. PharmAccess works closely with the public and private health…
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Cordiant Capital
Established in 1999, Cordiant is a pre-eminent fund manager of emerging market, private sector investments. With USD1.4 billion in subscriptions…
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Research ICT Africa
Research ICT Africa seeks to fulfil a strategic gap in the development of a sustainable information society and knowledge economy on the African continent by building information communication technol…
- October 20th, 2008
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Ethan Zuckerman - Explains 7 rules of innovation based on constraints
Too many times we think technology can just fix a problem. Ethan Zuckerman offers a great post of how he sees innovation come from constraints. This post actually reminds me of a book I read in busine…
- October 9th, 2008
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Africa Rising by Vijay Mahajan
afd With more than 900 million consumers, the continent of Africa is one of the world's fastest growing markets. In Africa Rising, Vijay Mahajan, a marketing professor at The University of Texas at A…
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U.S.-Africa Private Sector Health Forum - Nov 21st - 22nd DC
The 2008 U.S.-Africa Private Sector Health Forum will focus on opportunities for private sector investment in health care and delivery in Africa, including medical franchising, leveraged partnerships,…
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eTranzact - online payment service
eTranzact is the first online real-time payment system that allows account holders to pay for goods and services purchased from merchants, transfer funds to any bank account, cell phone, any card, pa…
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BarCamp Africa - At Google Campus Oct 11, 2008
ggg BarCampAfrica 2008 will be held at the Google Campus in Mountainview on 11 October 2008 as a way to bring people interested in Africa, on a variety of levels and topics, together in one place for…
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Africa: A New Emerging Markets Frontier? (OECD) - Video
Interesting thoughts from OECD about Africa's emerging markets. ddd In the past five years Africa's emerging markets have increasingly attracted major global investment. But the continent faces import…
- October 7th, 2008
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2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge
USAID is proud to announce the upcoming launch of the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. The Challenge will reward the best ideas with an invitation to present them before senior officials at USAID…
- October 2nd, 2008
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Meet the Bill Gates of Ghana - Herman Chinery Hesse, Inc.com article
Great article on Herman and his new service called BSL, a hybrid of Paypal and Amazon.com. Herman is well-known for co-founding Softtribe, Ghana's 1st software house. For those that don't know Herman,…
- September 30th, 2008
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Hippo Water Roller - easy transportation of water
The Hippo Water Roller Project aims to improve global access to water by making it possible to collect 24 gallons (90 liters) of water- five times the amount possible using traditional methods - in le…
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Barefoot Power
Barefoot Power is a social entrepreneurial business. They design and manufacture technology products specifically for poor people that have the potential to reduce poverty in developing countries. Th…
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Coast Coconut Farms
About Coast Coconut FarmsCoast Coconut Farms is dedicated to producing the highest quality extra virgin coconut oil through a Direct Micro Expelling process. Our coconut oil is made on the beautiful c…
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Dimagi - Technology for a Developing World
About DimagiDimagi is a dedicated group of clinicians and programmers who pride themselves on building deployable systems that produce immediate results. We focus on providing the best possible user e…
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SASSI - The Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative
About SASSI SASSI was initiated in November 2004 in order to inform and educate all participants in the seafood trade, from wholesalers to restaurateurs through to seafood lovers. The initiative build…
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mPedigree - drug supply chain distribution
The mPedigree program is en route to establish national enhanced drug supply chain protection systems for all 48 sub-Saharan African countries in ten years, before expanding the program to other devel…
- September 22nd, 2008
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Banking the Unbanked: Going Mobile in Africa
From African ExecutiveHome to nearly a billion people, the 54 countries that make up the African continent are ushering in an era of liberty, democracy, and robust economic development. An important p…
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Grand Inga Dam - Can it Power all of Africa?
This is old news, but for those that are not in the know. The Grand Inga dam is a gigantic infrastructure project that would make the Three Gorges Dam look like a tree house. Here is what the BBC say…
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AIC - African Advisory firm
The AiC's goal is to be the leading investment advisory firm identifying finance and investors for strategic projects, market access and opportunities on the African continent. AIC's vision is the dev…
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Click Diagnostics - telemedicine via Mobile Phone
ClickDiagnostics, Inc. is a global tele-health company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. We provide a mobile technology-based infrastructure to connect community-based health-workers to…
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Minaj Group - Nigerian Conglomerate
About MinajMinaj Group is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria and is principally engaged in the real estate, media, and energy sectors. Its holding company Minaj Holdings Limited is a private company o…
- September 12th, 2008
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UN foundation press release - mHealth initiative in Africa
Mobile Health Initiative Expands to Over 20 Countries in AfricaInnovative technology deployed to help improve healthcare delivery and save livesWASHINGTON, DC, GENEVA and LONDON (September 9, 2008)  
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Ambitious plan by Google to provide internet access to 3bn
Google and it's consortium partners want to provide cheap Internet service via low attitude satellites. The only issue I have is that, I've heard of this thing before and other consortium's have trie…
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Medical Advances—Through Your mobile phone?
BusinessWeek ran an interesting article about utilizing Smart phones to provide high-end medical diagnostics at a fraction of their costs. This piece ran back in April.Medical Advances—Through Your…
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Micro Clinic - accelerating accessible healthcare in Africa
Following a franchise business model that combines ownership with proven operating, marketing, and distribution standards, MicroClinic empowers community health nurses to own and grow their own MicroC…
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CFW Shops - utilizing a healthcare micro-franchising model
CFW Shops provides a Micro-Franchising Model - An Effective, Scalable Solution for sustainable healthcare model in developing markets.The HealthStore model is a network of micro pharmacies and clinics…
- September 8th, 2008
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September 16-18 USAID Speaker's Corner on Outsourcing Options for Microfinance Institutions
September 16-18 USAID Speaker's Corner on Outsourcing Options for Microfinance InstitutionsWhile outsourcing core banking systems could increase the efficiency and capacity of Microfinance Institution…
- September 2nd, 2008
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MicroVentureSupport
About MicroVenture SupportMicro Venture Support (MVS) attacks poverty through innovative and cooperative application of capital market strategies, selective investment, and hands-on operating support.…
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Mobile Planet - Mobile applications in Africa
About Mobile PlanetSubscriber numbers in Africa are growing at a phenomenal rate. This spells great potential. Potential to use mobile technology to address Africa's unique set of circumstances and ch…
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ILC Africa - African private sector education
About ILC AfricaILC Africa was founded by two University of Pennsylvania alumni who went on to secure Masters in Science degrees from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania respectively…
- August 19th, 2008
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SELF - Solar Electric Light Fund
About SELFThe mission of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) is to provide solar power and wireless communications to the one quarter of humanity who lives in energy poverty.The Solar Electric Light…
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Africa Biofuel - Tanzanian biofuel company
About Africa BiofuelRegistered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2006, Africa Biofuel and Emission Reduction Company [Tanzania] Ltd. consists of a team dedicated to bringing a triple-bottom-line biofuel…
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SW Global - ASP provider
About SW GlobalSocketWorks Ltd is an Application Service Provider (ASP). We bundle IT infrastructure and Enterprise Software solutions to customers using vendor-financing.Based on our subscription m…
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Genesis Outsouring - African advisory BPO services
About Genesis BPO- We provide simple and quick access to the African Markets for BPO services- We develop feasibility studies for suitability of Offshore BPO in Africa- We assist in BPO vendor selecti…
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CS Africa - African sustainable development
About CS Africa Coalition for a Sustainable Africa (CSAfrica) is a collaboration of organizations offering sustainable solutions for grass-roots initiatives to empower the people and communities of Af…
- August 11th, 2008
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TAN Ghana 2008: Conference in Accra - August 16, 2008
About EventTANCon is the world’s sole event of its kind for entrepreneurs of African descent. The target audience includes entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 business leaders, venture capitalists, investmen…
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Deng Limited - Ghana solar power
About Deng LimitedDENG Limited is probably best known in Ghana for its Solar Division. For almost 20 years we have provided both world class solar components and services to all areas of the country.W…
- August 5th, 2008
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Bringing IT and related skills to Ghana
This is a video about Citrix bringing access to applications and the Internet, as well as IT infrastructure and related skills to Ghana, West Africa.
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Ungana - Afrika: Addressing African ICT capacity building
About Ungana-Afrika A ‘capacity crisis’ is a mild expression to describe the skill levels and understanding of information and communications technologies (ICTs) within small-to-medium enterprises…
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CSIR - future through African science
From their Site The CSIR is one of the leading scientific and technology research, development and implementation organisations in Africa. Science and technology services and solutions are provided in…
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School Net - Africa Education Knowledge Warehouse
The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan-African education portal which services African SchoolNet practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across…
- July 31st, 2008
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Afromusing - Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
From Afromusing Blog - Julian Rotich Two opportunities I would like to pass along, the first is SEPS (Sustainable Energy Project Support) call for applications. Now in its fifth year, WISIONS, a Wup…
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TEDC 2008 - Technology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries
About the eventTechnology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries July 31 - August 2, 2008 Kampala, Uganda The goal of this fifth i…
