Voxox Expands Service to Africa
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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Francisco Grau
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cloud-based rich communication services, communication services, Fax, Messaging, Teleficient Communications, Telereliance Communication, Voicemail, VoIP

As part of its Voxox For Operators (TM) program, Voxox signed a partnership agreement with Telereliance and its sister company, Teleficient, to roll out the Voxox service in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia. The hosted cloud communication service powered by Voxox will be co-branded as ChatMore in Ghana and AwiKoneKt in the other countries.

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Ten Startups In Ghana To Watch Closely
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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Francisco Grau
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incubator, Meltwater Entreprenurial School of Technology, software entrepreneurs

Norwegian Software entrepreneur Jorn Lyseggen was in Ghana on Saturday for the 2013 Graduation ceremony of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), the entrepreneurial school he founded in 2007 to help train young, intelligent Ghanaians to become software entrepreneurs. Since founding the school, 139 students have graduated and 13 companies have been founded by these people. Collectively, these companies now employ over 70 people.

 

 
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Kickass African startups worth getting excited about
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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Francisco Grau
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dropifi, Leti Games, SMEs, startups, tech

I have decided that any old Joe can start a company. In fact all you have to do is have an idea. It doesn’t even have to be a good one. All you need is for a bunch of other Joes to want it. In Africa, all the Joes are starting their own business, but not all the Joes can make it work — after all, This is Africa (TIA).

We have written a fair amount about tech startups in Africa that have shown they have the potential to impress and have gained some very serious traction. Some companies have received funding in the millions, international investment and lots of press. That’s very cool.
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Ghana’s Yeboao to soon integrate new payment solutions
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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advertising, design, graphic, web development, Yeboao

Graphic design, advertising and web development company Yeboao previously KKYB productions will soon launch new payment channels for its clients spread all over the world.

 
Graphic design, advertising and web development company Yeboao, previously KKYB Online Services, will soon launch new payment channels for its clients spread all over the world.
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Q&A: Ghana gets iSpace incubator
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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Francisco Grau
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entrepreneur, iSpace, unprivileged children

 Fiifi Baidoo, co-founder and community manager of Accra’s latest incubator and co-working environment, iSpace, spoke to HumanIPO about why the office was set up and what it is hoping to achieve in the tech entrepreneur and startup ecosystem in Ghana.

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Government to develop Cyber Security Policy
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
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cyber security policy, Government, International Telecommunication Union, National Computer Emergency Response Team

 Government is developing a National Cyber Security Policy framework and strategy to deal with cyber threats, Ms Victoria Hamah, Deputy Minister of Communications said on Monday.

Consequently, an agreement had been signed with the International Telecommunication Union to help develop a national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), to react rapidly to security threats that may affect the national security and well-being of Ghanaians using the cyber space.

Ms Hamah made this known at the opening session of the Ghana Network Operators' Group (GhNOG) workshop organised in Accra.

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