As announced in a recent posting Tim Berners-Lee and I visited Ghana a couple of weeks ago. Here’s my personal account of our activities in and around Accra between Friday 18th of September and Monday 21st.
Some context first. We’ve been working on scheduling a series of WF staff visits in Africa in the coming…
WF’s first trip to Ghana
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