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GHANA’S ACTIVIST-DEVELOPERS DIGITAL NATIONALISM IN WEST AFRICA Reginold Royston - BCNM, African Diaspora.

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1 GHANA’S ACTIVIST-DEVELOPERS DIGITAL NATIONALISM IN WEST AFRICA Reginold Royston - BCNM, African Diaspora

2 BERKELEY CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA Arts + Engineering + Social Science

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4 AFRICA & TECHNOLOGY Conflict Coltan (CONGO) 419 Scams + Sakawa (NIGERIA / GHANA) eWaste (WEST AFRICA)

5 ‘LEAPFROG DEVELOPMENT’ African Cell Phone Explosion Expanded Broadband access Mobile Web (M-Pesa money payments, wireless dongles, etc.)

6 GHANA: ACTIVIST - DEVELOPERS GhanaDecides - 2012 election VoteKast.com BloggingGhana (BloGH) 9 BarCamp events in Ghana in 2012 MakerFaire Ashesi University

7 GHANA’S DIGERATI Dropifi, 2012 Global Start-up Winner RetailTower 2012 SF Launch winner Nandi Mobile 2011 SF Launch winner Farmerline 2011 Apps4Africa winner Leti Games Meltwater Entrepreneurial School for Technology, Accra, GH

8 DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION

9 More @ bit.ly/GHANATECH CITRIS 4 th Floor SD Hall African Diaspora Ph.D. Program

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