Caught on Twitter

Today has been an intense day and I just have not had time to gather any thoughts of my own, so here are some from others found on Twitter:

@MacJordaN tweeted a link to an interesting article on who uses location based social networks.

See the list of tweets from the Ghana National ICT Policy Review Forum. Find the history of the current Policy here (tweeted by @nnenna)

Last, but not least; some general ICT news from @ICTworks

Kick off - trying to locate the Ghanain IT pulse!

I have been living in Accra for almost exactly five months now, working as a project manager, designer and front end developer at ExplainerDC.

Internet has been my passion since 1999 when I built my first website using frames, animated gifs and all... I was hooked straight away and Internet has been an obsession since. I have been lucky enough to have my own computer since 2001, lucky enough to always have a speedy connection and extremely lucky to grow up in one of the most Internet friendly and tech savvy countries in the world (hey, I am biased, I know that!); Sweden. 

Coming to Ghana and working with Internet has in many ways been exactly what I pictured it to be, but in many ways it's completely different. 

In many ways the way people use Internet here can be compared to how it was used in Sweden ten years ago;  a lot of trends are repeated here. On the other hand, Internet is used completely different. This is where this blog comes in. In order to better understand how Internet works and interacts here, I have started to surf, tweet, visit Internet cafés, reading blogs and engage in every activity I can think of to find out more. And everything I find out, or think about or simply just hear something about, will be collected here. 

The aim is to try (although I know it is doomed) to put my finger on the Ghanaian Internet pulse. Wish me luck, or even better - help me out by commenting, emailing, Facebooking or tweeting!