Over 300 people interested in Ghana congregated on December 21st at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) premises to exchange ideas and learn from each other. BarCamp Ghana 09 was themed "Leadership for our times - cultivating change makers" and the event was centered around youth creating and making change and setting up themselves to lead, be innovate and entrepreneurial now. The event run from 9am past 7pm and was free for all attendees. Breakfast, lunch, and drinks were all provided at no cost to attendees.

BarCamp Ghana '09 Pictures

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BarCamp Ghana 09 Recap

On December 22, 2008, over a hundred young Ghanaians met in Accra for BarCamp Ghana '08 to exchange ideas on entrepreneurship, innovation and development for a rising Ghana. This summer, the conversations moved to Washington, DC on July 25, 2009 where BarCamp Diaspora '09 brought together the African Diaspora to exchange ideas on doing business in Africa.

The BarCamp Ghana team will be on a few radio shows as part of publicizing the event.

Sky TV will be covering the full event on Monday, December 21.

On Friday, December 18, Edward Tagoe, Mawuli Sikanku and Nii-Nai Kwade were on Radio Universe 105.7FM to talk about BarCamp Ghana 09. This was from about 8:20am to 9am.

Join the discussion:

Live feed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/barcamp-ghana-09

Live Streaming (with comments enabled):
Livestream
UStream

Chat (with video):

Follow BarCamp Ghana 09 conversations on Twitter through @BarCampGhana
Twitter hashtag - #bcghana09

Skype: barcampghana
Google Chat/Talk: barcampghana

Patrick Awuah is the Founder and President of Ashesi University. We at BarCamp are excited to have him as the keynote speaker for the second BarCamp Ghana event on December 21, 2009 at the
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST).

Patrick Awuah was educated at the Achimota School and left the shores of Ghana in the 80's to pursue his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College. He graduated in 1989 with majors in engineering and economics. He continued on to Microsoft, where he worked for many years and became a millionaire before he hit 30. He completed an MBA at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He used his connections and network built from these institutions to raise funds and resources to build a university in Ghana which he modelled after Swarthmore's liberal arts education. Ashesi (which means beginning in Twi) opened in late 2001 and has proceeded to graduate brilliant, entrepreneurial, hardworking students who are the cream of the crop and making waves in the various sectors they've entered.

Patrick Awuah and Ashesi University was awarded the Aspen Institute's McNulty Prize for 2009 worth $100,000. Judges choosing the McNulty Prize included Madeleine Albright, Bill Gates, and Olara Otunnu. He was also a finalist for the Microsoft Alumni Foundation's 2009 Integral Fellows.

BarCamp Ghana 09 would not be possible without the generous support from a number of organizations.

You can become a sponsor by contacting the BarCamp Ghana team or donating below.

The organizations are

The GhanaThink Foundation

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School Of Technology (MEST)

If interested in carpooling from different locations, or getting a host for the Decmber 21 event, contact the BarCamp team or write on the wall for the Facebook event.

The address for the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is 20 Aluguntuguntu Street, East Legon, Accra, Ghana.

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