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Support +kofi yeboah , a final year student from the University of Cape Coast, studying Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Sociology) and an intern at the West African Trade Hub, Accra Ghana.He was selected as one of the young Africans to know in 2013.  He has been selected to be part of the Preparing Global Leaders Academy in Amman , Jordan, from April 4-11, 2013. Preparing Global Leaders Academy (PGLA) is a premiere international educational program for the best students and young professionals in the world.  PGLA’s specific strategy is to help participants maximize their potential and develop leadership and communication skills. The program seeks to prepare aspiring global scholar-leaders with the tools that are necessary for effective leadership in an increasingly complex world. He was chosen among a pool of over 300 outstanding applicants to join fellow young leaders from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South East Asia and the United States

MPower is not yet another payment system or gateway in Ghana. It provides simple and secure payment solution for consumers and businesses with a better payment experience.  For the developers interested in trying their APIs out, here is the developer guide . MPower provides easy API integration with a lot of examples to enable transactions fit your online checkout process and POS Systems. 

Enjoy some of the highlights of what happened in 2012 in the Ghana technology space.

Election 2012 is just around the corner and as expected, the energetic and passionate developer community is taking the opportunity to churn out as many relevant applications as possible. I can't say technology is playing a bigger role than it did 4 years ago. It is however playing some kind of role, from the Electoral Commission, to the candidates who have included social media in their campaigns.

Slicebiz, a startup which won the just ended Startup Weekend Accra is a disruptive web and mobile investment platform providing alternative financing for startup businesses. They beat 14 other awesome teams to win the spot which makes them even more awesome.

One main challenge facing some of Africa's mobile developers is how to make money from their solutions. Mobile Apps and solutions are quite new here (because smart phones until recently were not easy to come by) and there is no clear way of making monies from it yet.