SYPALA 2008 Attendees

Event: Students & Young Professionals African Liberty Academy (SYPALA) 2009
Date: August 1-6, 2009
Venue: Ashesi University, Ghana
Organizer: IMANI, Centre for Policy and Education

Last year, 45 of the most promising students and young professionals from Ghana, and from across Africa, were treated to a feast of intellectual stimulation in the rarefied setting of Ashesi University’s Accra campus, a veritable cradle of liberal arts excellence in Africa.

60 of the continent’s finest leaders – CEOs, Army Generals, Financiers, Dons, high-ranking Government leaders and visionaries of all shades and hues – gave freely of their time and wisdom to nurture these incredibly gifted emerging leaders in the ways of success, sobriety, and significance. See last year’s seminar proceedings here and participant observations here

The mode of instruction ranged from the contemplative to the action-oriented, and took the forms of roundtables, lectures, tutorials and seminars, in subject-matters ranging from political economy to business strategy, and from leadership to economic governance. The African condition was dissected; yardsticks for civil engagement were debated; the principles of economics were reassessed and frequently overthrown in debate; and, in some of the most memorable moments at the Alisa Hotel Auditorium, a renaissance in African technology and entrepreneurship was heralded by those closest to the ongoing transformation of the African creative landscape.

WHATEVER YOU DO, YOU CANNOT MISS THIS YEAR’S EDITION OF SYPALA!

Not if you are a student or young professional committed to exerting impact on the course of Africa’s development in this century. Not if you are on the verge of major professional, academic or personal decisions that will have long-lasting effects on your place in society and your relationships with others, and you are in search of guidance by those who have not merely survived such decisions but blazed pioneering trails of glory on the back of such decisions properly made.

YOU HAVE TO APPLY!

THE APPLICATION IS ONLINE AT http://africanliberty.org/node/626

Christopher Bennett and Philip Agyei, SYPALA 2008 Participants

For the most exceptional applicants, some scholarships will be available on a competitive basis.

PROCEED TO APPLY NOW here.

Early applicants will receive free copies of Johan Norberg’s “In Defense of Global Capitalism” and “The Essays in Political Economy” by Frederic Bastiat.

You have to read June Arunga’s introduction to Norberg’s book here and Franklin Cudjoe’s of Bastiat here .

You will be taking the first step in a journey that may change your life forever.

You will be taking the first step in a journey that may change your life forever. Take note of our April 30th deadline. If you have further quesstions, please email Mavis at leamakuu@gmail.com or call her on +233 21 41 70 94 / +233 24 497 3951 during office hours, please.

The programme is offered entirely as distance education, which perfectly suits me. Why?

It allows me to stay here in Ghana, School and at the same time build up my start up Web Development firm, Integrity Internet Marketing LLC.

The Programme
The education language for this programme is English. The Master of Informatics is a multidisciplinary programme, which combines perspectives focusing on the social construction of technology in design and use with perspectives focusing on software engineering and ICT product design processes, and brings these perspectives together in exploring issues of relevance for theory and practice concerning ICT design.

Through individual field studies of design practice and ICT in use, these different perspectives are combined, explored and forged into a broader and deeper understanding of ICT as part of everyday life and society.

Read all about it from BTH’s website.

We all wish Remy a Happy and successful M.Sc.

It means, “You Can Do It If You Think You Can”

The 2 day program which I coordinated, aimed at teaching the BAC heads in using the Internet Effectively in their day to day activities.
The resource person was George Kwabenah Appiah, an independent Strategic Technology Consultant in Ghana. Christopher Bennett, was also present to assist.

On Monday, when we got to the venue of the training, (NBSSI Headquarters in Accra), there was no Internet access from ZipNet, their Internet Service Provider. After fruitless efforts to get the ISP to restore Internet access, we had to move to the Accra Business Advisory Center to use their Dial-Up account.

Since there was network in the building George setup an ad-hoc network so the participants could access the Internet, via his laptop. The training went very well after this, with the participants really enjoying the training.

Yesterday, we went back to the Headquarters again, hoping that the Internet service had been restored. Well, we were in luck.
Despite initial battles with our router, we had another successful training session.

At the end of the training programme, we discussed with the participants how best they could pass on the knowledge gained to their clients.

Here are some photos from the 2 day event.

George Appiah training participants

Gladys and Anthea (Accra and Tema BAC Heads)

Michael and Philomena (Ada and Dodowa BAC Heads)

Gladys and Jonas (Accra and Weija BAC Heads)

Chris helping participants

Remy helping participants

Participants with Training Team

Even though I have to submit a proposal to a client tomorrow afternoon, I managed to squeeze some hours into starting the site, thanks to George’s prompts.

Keep coming back for more of St. Remy’s raves and rants.