The KINGS of Africas Digital Economy

Published: April 24, 2017, 5:02 p.m.

b'Eric Osiakwan is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. Some of these companies and organizations are Angel Africa, Angel Fair Africa , Ghana Cyber City, PenPlusBytes, African Elections Portal, FOSSFA, WABco, GISPA, AfrISPA, GNVC, Internet Research, InHand, Ghana Connect. He serves on the board of Farmerline, Forhey, Teranga Solutions, Siqueries, Amp.it, SameLogic, eCampus, Bisa App and Wanjo Foods, - some of which are his investments.\\n \\nHe was part of the team that built the TEAMS submarine cable in East Africa and an ICT Consultant for the WorldBank, Soros Foundations, UNDP, USAID, USDoJ, USDoS as well as African governments and private firms. \\nHe authored "The KINGS of Africa Digital Economy", co-authored the \\u201cOpen Access Model\\u201d, \\u201cNegotiating the Net\\u201d \\u2013 the politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa and \\u201cThe Internet in Ghana\\u201d with the Mosaic Group. He was invited to contribute ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair\\u2019s Commission for Africa. \\n \\nEric is a Poptech, TED, Stanford, and MIT Fellow. He was previously a Berkman Klein Fellow at Harvard University.\\n\\nFor more about this event, visit:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/02/Osiakwan'