Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang gives her assessment of the education sector in Ghana and discusses partnership opportunities with international organizations and the private sector. She also mentions some challenges in education and shares her vision for the future.
Interplast is a company that produces high quality plastic pipe solutions for the infrastructural development of water and sewerage in Ghana and West Africa. Its CEO, Arthur Huberts, gives an overview of the company and talks about Ghana.
Given the chance, over one-third of Lebanon’s citizens would leave their homeland, citing financial reasons and quality of life.
Libya Sector Analysis
Libya Telecoms and Broadband service expanding at steady pace amid considering new telecoms law
In post-rebellion Libya, the telecoms are up and working and more fiber optic linkages are being established to improve efficiency, but policy makers want to see the telecoms entities devolve from state ownership to private companies.
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Lebanon: What’s happening to us? Bombs and…bees?
The use of pesticides and herbicides in Lebanon has led the country to Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder – a condition where the bee population decreases rapidly.
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Tunisia: Analyzing the Dawn of the Arab Spring
As Tunisia’s GDP continued to show healthy growth in recent years, Tunisians’ life evaluations continued to plummet. While Mohamed Bouazizi’s protest over the confiscation of his vegetable cart sparked the “Arab Spring,” Tunisians’ perception of entrepreneurship as a viable option for employment soured. In Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s last year of rule, Tunisians’ satisfaction with basic infrastructure, the cost of living, and basic services dropped noticeably.
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Chinese Growth Set for Lower Lows
China is slowing fast. Since hitting a post-financial crisis high of 11.9% in the first quarter of 2010, Chinese quarterly GDP growth has risen in just two of the subsequent thirteen quarters.
Frank Brako Adu Jnr, Managing Director of CAL Bank, gives an overview of the banking sector in Ghana and presents CAL Bank, an indigenous Ghanaian bank with a network of 18 branches and 50 offsite ATMs across the country.
Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse, Founder and Chairman of SOFTtribe, gives an overview of the IT sector in Ghana. SOFTtribe has been providing business solutions to both the private and public sectors in Ghana and some West African countries for the past 20 years.
With almost 20 years experience in the ICT industry in the UK and Africa, Mr. David Kwamena Bolton is responsible for steering the technical direction of SOFTtribe. Mr. Bolton gives an overview of his background and discusses IT in Ghana.
