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Norwegian Trade Minister Trond Giske visits MEST!

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

Monday 21st November, 2011, between 4:30pm and 5:30pm GMT, a delegation  from Norway visited the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology as part of the delegation’s visit to Norwegian organisations in Ghana, following the official opening of the new Norwegian Embassy in Accra, Ghana.  The delegation (almost 20+ dignitaries) comprised of the Norwegian…

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8 teams pitch at Startup Weekend

By Amma Baffoe On November 21, 2011 · 3 Comments
About Start-up Weekend
Startup Weekend events are weekend-long, hands-on sessions where startup enthusiasts and aspiring entrepreneurs develop ideas and get an opportunity to validate their ideas. Last weekend (18th – 20th Nov. 2011), the 1st ever start-up weekend event in Ghana took place at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology campus at East Legon.…
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Refocusing: talking about a revolution…

By Ylva On September 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

4years ago…

When I first started working with MEST more than four years ago, and I told people I was working on a project in Africa, no one ever assumed I would be working with technological innovation. Instead, people associated Africa with humanitarian crises, agricultural societies, and overall lack of development.

The…

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