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Innovation in Ghana

Innovation in Ghana

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    William Senyo, Found and CEO iHub Accra

    William Senyo, Found and CEO iHub Accra demands for more original innovation: “We are big consumers of technology and we adapt technology to local use and we call that innovation. Thats is incremental innovation at best. So there is that reality we are not creating enough to actually shape the future of digital society. “

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    Ashwin Ravichandran, CEO MEST Incubator in Accra

    Ashwin Ravichandran stresses that the perspective of digital participation must be adapted to the regional context: “So, when it comes to digital inclusion, just the access of having infrastructure for me here is most important. So I think first of all readjusting the lens for the definition of digital inclusion is first and foremost. The second thing is applying intervention principles.

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    Precious Ankomah for media innovations at Penplusbytes

    Precious Ankomah for media innovations at Penplusbytes sees lack of digital participation of women as a society problem: Usually the internet provides a level playground and everybody - men and women. So the sociale differences we have in real life are truely manifest on the internet. It is actually a very dices situation here because we transfer our lifes on the ground to what is happening online

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    Jerry Sam, director of programmes bei Penplusbytes

    Jerry Sam, director of programmes bei Penplusbytes sees innovative forms of participation as an opportunity to give people more control over government activities again: “We came from the standpoint that once the citizens are involved in monitoring not just elections but in a government process they became to own the process.”


  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    William Senyo, Found and CEO iHub Accra

    William Senyo, Found and CEO iHub Accra demands for more original innovation: “We are big consumers of technology and we adapt technology to local use and we call that innovation. Thats is incremental innovation at best. So there is that reality we are not creating enough to actually shape the future of digital society. “

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    Ashwin Ravichandran, CEO MEST Incubator in Accra

    Ashwin Ravichandran stresses that the perspective of digital participation must be adapted to the regional context: “So, when it comes to digital inclusion, just the access of having infrastructure for me here is most important. So I think first of all readjusting the lens for the definition of digital inclusion is first and foremost. The second thing is applying intervention principles.

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    Precious Ankomah for media innovations at Penplusbytes

    Precious Ankomah for media innovations at Penplusbytes sees lack of digital participation of women as a society problem: Usually the internet provides a level playground and everybody - men and women. So the sociale differences we have in real life are truely manifest on the internet. It is actually a very dices situation here because we transfer our lifes on the ground to what is happening online

  • DW Akademie - Recherchereise in Accra, Ghana (DW/J. Endert)

    Jerry Sam, director of programmes bei Penplusbytes

    Jerry Sam, director of programmes bei Penplusbytes sees innovative forms of participation as an opportunity to give people more control over government activities again: “We came from the standpoint that once the citizens are involved in monitoring not just elections but in a government process they became to own the process.”