Do You See What I See?

Moving to Ghana in 1990, Chinery-Hesse had no money but did own a computer. With a friend, he began writing programs and selling them, eventually moving from a bedroom to a garage to an office. Today, he is dubbed the “Bill Gates of Ghana”. SOFTtribe is the country’s leading software developer, providing management systems to dozens of companies, including Guinness and Unilever, and products to thousands of consumers. One of its most popular programs allows a user whose house is being attacked to text their GPS co-ordinates to police, neighbours and local radio.

Landlines and PCs remain scarce in Africa, but the mobile phone is changing lives in countless ways; there are reportedly… [Continue reading this amazing story via the following link now  http://bit.ly/1zBGX0w