In 2012 Sandister Tei co-founded Wikimedia Ghana User Group a community of volunteer editors focused on improving and promoting Wikipedia's knowledge projects in Ghana. In this episode, we ‘delved’ into the birth of the community, and the role they play in advancing digital literacy among others. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship⁠ ⁠AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship⁠ ⁠McKinsey & Company Forward Program

For most software businesses in Ghana, accessibility is an afterthought but in this conversation with Derrick Omari we learn about why building inclusive products is a good business case and how to approach this mind shift. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship McKinsey & Company Forward Program

We had an exciting conversation with Paul Damalie who recently exited his startup Appruve to Smile ID. We learnt about the early days of Appruve, what inspired the exit and what Paul is up to these days at Damalie Innovation Holdings Group. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Production partner: Kweku Tech Opportunities ⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

What are the indications of a real product market for African startups? What does it take to achieve real product market fit?  We got answers for these and more in our conversation with Bright Ahedor serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Kudigo and Startup mentor at MEST Africa with over a decade of experience building, leading and mentoring African startups. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

As we slowly welcome ourselves back from the internet blackout that hit major parts of Africa including Ghana, we had a conversation with telecommunication and software expert Raphael Acquah who currently leads software strategy at MTN Ghana to have an understanding of Ghana’s internet infastrusture and how it all works. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

Benjamin Sackey a seasoned product designer and manager with over a decade of experience working in Ghana's product design and development space discussed how the space has evolved over the last ten years in this episode of Building Bytes. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

In this episode of Building Bytes, we delve into the story of Vanessa Leonie-Mensah, CEO of VDL Fulfilment, and how she pioneered Ghana's tech-enabled fulfillment infrastructure. Her journey began with a quest for a superior courier service for personal use. This episode serves as an interlude for the Hall of a Decade season, which will resume next week. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

Eyram Tawia's journey of pioneering Africa's game development industry from Ghana is one full of passion and a bouquet of lessons, 15 years on Eyram tells the story of the early days of game development in Africa and founding Leti Arts with the Building Bytes Hosts. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities Gen F by Founder's Fund

Entrepreneurial Support Organizations [ESOs] play an important role in the development of startups, in this episode we sat with Olufemi Adewumi [Mr. Femi], the Program Director at MEST Africa to talk about the impact ESOs have contributed to building global startups. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunity ⁠UNICEF StartUp Lab MEST Training Program

In 2010 Ghana had no technology hubs, today in 2024 there is a hub in almost all the 16 regions in Ghana. We spoke to the founder of Ghana's first indigenous tech hub, iSpace who doubles as the President of Ghana Hubs Network about how Ghana's Innovation hub space has evolved over the years and what's next for that sector. Listen here and share with your friends, and colleagues. Opportunity UNICEF StartUp Lab

It's a new year and a new season at Building Bytes, the guys are back. In this episode, they interview Eric Nsarkoh, a Telecommunication Giant who in the span of his career, led Innovations of telecoms like MTN, Airtel and Tigo, he shared his account on the evolution of Mobile Money in Ghana. Listen here and share with your friends. Opportunity MEST Training Program

Just as Sam Altman's stay at OpenAI has ended, so has the first season of Building Bytes, it's been a great experience and thanks for listening, see you next year and have a fun holiday ahead. Listen here and share with your friends. Opportunity Accra Lawtech Hangout

Every thriving tech ecosystem is built on the foundation of strong communities, most of these communities are in various sectors of the ecosystem and in this episode, we highlighted a few of them. Listen here and share with your friends. Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Building Bytes Opportunities Ghana Digital Innovation Week 2023, 6-8 Nov at AICC Ghana Fintech Awards 2023 Nominations Officially Opened

We a̶d̶d̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ discussed the elephant in the room, aka Co-founder Dilemma. We tried our best and shared some of our experiences dealing with our co-founders. This may not be the best episode we have recorded but it had some hard truths. Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠Building Bytes⁠

We believe part-time founders can also build great companies and we went guns blazing in this episode. If you are building while still at post at your 9 to 5, this is your episode share with your friends who are also building startups part-time and yes full-time founders do listen. Opportunities eCedi Hackathon 2023 MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠Building Bytes⁠

In this episode of Building Bytes Caleb and Yaw discuss the best approach to incorporate a startup from Ghana and share their experience protesting at #OccupyJulorbiProtest. Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠Building Bytes⁠

In this episode of Building Bytes Caleb, Poga and Yaw discuss what the Ghanaian Founder's Dream and CEO's of Afrovivo and ESports Africa Tournament also share their Founder's Dream. Listen and share it with a friend. Important links; Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Building Bytes

Podcast Description: In this episode Caleb, Poga and Yaw take a trip down memory lane where they analyse Ghanaian startups that didn’t survive and had to close down. Listen and share it with a friend. Important links; SaaS Accelerator Program: Africa Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Building Bytes

In this episode Caleb, Poga and Yaw discuss whether entrepreneurship can be taught in schools or not. They go on to discuss ways people can use to be entrepreneurs. Listen and share it with a friend. Important links;Visa Accelerator Program Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Building Bytes

In this episode of Building Bytes, Caleb, Poga and Yaw discuss how they validated the ideas to start Ubadi and Landlord and how to approach idea validation from a practical viewpoint. Listen and share it with a friend. Important links; AWS Global Fintech Accelerator MTN MoMo Hackathon Connect with us on Socials; Twitter: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Building Bytes

In this guide to the Ghanaian tech ecosystem, Caleb, Poga and Yaw analyze the current state of the Ghanaian tech ecosystem, reviewing the laws, various sectors and the impact of local technology on Ghana.

In this episode of Building Bytes your hosts Caleb, Poga and Yaw discuss some of the known ways founders come up with brilliant ideas and they also share their experiences with coming up with the Ubadi and Landlord ideas. Listen and share it with a friend. Important links: Apply to Fast Accelerator​​, www.fastaccelerator.com Submit your business concept for Presidential Pitch by National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, www.neippresidentialpitch.org   Connect with us on...

Caleb, Poga and Yaw in this first episode of Building Bytes introduce the show where the three early-stage founders seek to share their experiences in building startups, document stories and facilitate conversations in the Ghanaian tech ecosystem. Listen to episode 1.0 and share your feedback via email [email protected]. Connect with us on Socials. Twitter: @BuildingBytes Instagram: @BuildingBytes LinkedIn: Building Bytes