GHANA has begun the construction of the state-of-the-art National Information Communication Technology (ICT) Park in the country.
The construction work kicked off on Thursday with both ministers of Communications, Alhaji Haruna Iddrissu, and Ms. Hannah Tetteh, the minister of Trade and Industry cutting the ribbon at a function this morning at Tema Free Zones Enclave in the Greater Accra Region. The 20 hectare technology park is the first of its kind in the entire West Africa region in a joint funding from both the Ghana government and the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), who injected a whopping US$15 million (about R120 million) Continue reading
The beneficial results from the digital revolution are not evenly spread across the globe, with developed countries being far ahead in respect to the use of computers, Internet, mobile phone adoption, and telecommunications diffusion. This phenomenon is known as digital… Continue reading
Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government, executed by Corfo via InnovaChile, that seeks to attract early stage, high-potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups in Chile, using it as a platform to go global. The end goal of the accelerator program is to convert Chile into the definitive innovation and entrepreneurial hub of Latin America; this is a mission shared by the Government of Chile and is a primary focus of the Ministry of Economy Continue reading
The IT industry is comprised of numerous small and medium innovative companies. Across its lifecycle, a company goes through different stages. They can be normally described by the creation, growth, maturity and decline phases. Start-ups are new companies that are in the first phase of this cycle (Heinrichs, 2008). Building upon the premises of the digital economy, IT start-ups commonly present high potential for growth, and are heavily reliant on knowledge, human capital and intellectual property. They are also typically backed by venture capital.These iconic examples, though, represent only a negligible fraction of the host of innovative IT start-ups world-wide. This movement, initiated in the Silicon Valley Continue reading
