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Interview: Saya’s solution to cross-platform mobile group messaging

By Amma Baffoe On February 20, 2012 · 1 Comment

Video interview: Robert Lamptey, CEO Saya Mobile talks to Thorgeir Einarsson, founder at Afriversity from South Africa.

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This evening (20th February, 2012) in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, an all new group-messaging platform for the java, android and blackberry platforms will be launched!

‘A 1,000x cheaper than SMS’, Saya is a free cross platform chat…

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Building ‘tech start-ups’ from Ghana

By Amma Baffoe On January 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

A very happy 2012 to all our readers. This year, all of us at MEST have one objective, and that is “to develop software startups from Ghana that can also compete successfully in the global market space”. We wish you all the best and stay tuned for more exciting start-ups…

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“the need to be opportunistic when you’re an unknown start-up…”

By Amma Baffoe On December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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As part of a series of interviews of young African entrepreneurs featured on the Afriversity network , based in South Africa – the Afriversity platform is “an open entrepreneurial ecosystem for African entrepreneurs to connect, learn share & thrive” .

Blaise Bayuo, co-founder of RetailTower from the MEST Incubator talks to Thorgeir Einarsson, CEO…

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Mobile music streaming service launched in Ghana – first time ever!

By Amma Baffoe On December 15, 2011 · 2 Comments

Mobile music streaming from Ghana!

More exciting news coming from Accra, Ghana!

“It’s been long coming! After two years of work, the Streemio team will give members of the entertainment and business press a peek at our service…” said Streemio, in the form of an update from the start-up’s facebook fan page earlier this week.

Some background…

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Looking back: Did social media curb election fraud in Zambia and other African countries?

By Ylva On December 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Back in September we reported about how BantuWatch (on the Ushahidi platform) was used to collect crowd-sourced reports on electoral irregularities in the Zambian presidential elections. Today, we are following up on the results of the campaign and the impact this technology had.

But before that, lets take a look in the…

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