Time With Richard Reiner
Yesterday at the Techhub, mFriday members had the opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Richard Reiner, a renowned technology investor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Dr. Reiner is often found immersed in cloud computing, cloud security, mobile technology and social enterprise. He has had immense experience in these areas especially in cloud security. He is also a founding partner at...
Read MoreThree Demos and a Workshop!
The first mFriday meeting of this semester was held this Friday at the TechHub. The main agenda for the day was a lecture on Business Development for Startups and the demonstration of three applications. nFile, a multi-source news android application was the first app demoed. Joseph Paddy, the lead developer of this app presented with two team members, David and Jeffrey. They showed the different...
Read MoreFirst 2013 Hackerthon
The 9th of February saw the first of mFriday’s 2013 Hackerthons take place at the TechHub. Check out the pictures: http://www.mfriday.org/gallery/first-2013-hackerthon-in-pictures/ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on google plus Share on Linkedin Share on Posterous share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on th
Read MoremFriday takes 3 of the 4 Ghanaian finalist positions in Apps4Africa Challenge 2012
There was never any doubt that 2013 was going to be a great year for mFriday. Barely thirty days into the year and we are already seeing some more fruits of our labour. Last year, we saw the opening of the mFriday TechHub (the first of its kind in the west African sub region) and this year, we are going to see more of these springing up across the country. We are going to have the startup fund in...
Read MoreHackathon In Pictures
Feast your eyes on the events of the just ended hackathon where the various skill sets of bloggers, designers, researchers and coders were honed and displayed. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on google plus Share on Linkedin Share on Posterous share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print...
Read MoreAnis Haffar on Education, iLab & TechHub.
Anis Haffar of the GATE institute was at mFriday to engage the whole community on the Topic “The Future of Higher Education, Clues from Harvard University’s Innovation Lab”. He really made a great and engaging interaction with the community as is his style of making illustrations to make the presentation very lively. He stated that with the advent of the the mFriday...
Read MoreVodafone partners mFriday to activate TechHub at KNUST
A centre of technology has been activated at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as an innovative hub for students with ideas to solve socio-economic problems. The TechHub serves as the foremost mobile and web laboratory in Ghana where students are trained as ICT developers and future socially responsible entrepreneurs in the high-tech industry. Vodafone Ghana...
Read MoreAnatomy of a Mobile Web Lab/Hackerspace
When you’re are an entrepreneur , hacker or activist, there are few things that can provide as much inspiration to you as a place where you can go to meet like-minded individuals. If that place happens to be very comfortable and well equipped, why, that’s just an invitation to create. And for much of the last year, we here at mFriday have been pushing to make that a reality. Working...
Read MoreMr. Adjei of Printing & Imaging Solutions (PIS) Donates a Server to mFriday
On Saturday, August 25, 2012, Mr. Eric Osiakwan of Kuzima and Mr. Joe Adjei of Printing & Imaging Solutions joined the mFriday co-founders and core group for a CEO round table discussion. The mFriday management were planning the activities for the remaining quarter of 2012 and it was only fitting to invite Messrs. Adjei and Osiakwan over to take part. This was done to demonstrate our “Show,...
Read MoreDropifi’s David Osei Talks About Startups
The 12th of October, 2012 saw Mr. David Osei of Dropifi gave a talk about startups to the members of mFriday. Dropifi is a tech company which seeks to clear out the era of long and scary contact forms that deny businesses of valuable feedback and leads, whiles delivering business insight and a spam-free experience to customer engagement. The talk was entitled “5 Startup Lessons” and was an...
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