Busy Internet Ghana

Business Incubation: a tool for enabling innovation and entrepreneurship. -- BusyInternet launched its Busy incubator program early 2005, with support from the infoDev Program. The first of its kind in West Africa, this small business incubation program is designed to increase the chances of survival of young companies by providing them with a good opportunity to grow in a supportive and nurturing environment. To date, 25 companies have been successfully hosted at BusyInternet. Currently, there are 10 companies located at the BusyInternet facilities, which provides connectivity solutions, software development, management consulting, entrepreneurship development, business process outsourcing, computer based test preparation, and administration and web-based applications development.

On a broader level, program objectives are to promote economic growth by fostering private sector development through helping existing incubators in developing countries to improve performance in order to achieve higher 'survival rates' of incubated companies, growth and sustainability, creating synergy between incubators in developing countries, based on improved knowledge, networking and capacity building, as well as capacity building within enterprises to enhance their competitiveness, including trade competitiveness in the global business environment.

The World Bank - InfoDev Video Case Study

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• business
• world
• bank
• ghana
• africa
• internet
• web
• software
• economic
• growth

[xXShAniBOOXx]

why must every body always show the negative side of ghana and africa in general.....ghana is a very beautiful country but no body wants to show the good parts......why?

[Ashley11993]

why da fuck do dey always do dat.........showing da bad parts of africa but not showing the beautiful places like the beach or somthin........wats funny is dat ppl say we africans live on trees which is a lie bcoz we live in cement...HARD BRICKS while ppl in america be livin in wood which came out off trees...no wonder why tornados and hurricanes b blowin ppls houses away and ppl dyin here coz dey live in wood and dey always have da nerve to talk about africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lovelplants]

it's like some place here in the Philippines. and yeah internet right now help most people to have extra money and jobs.

-- that's really a good entrepreneur! if you want to success you have to try!

[Ravengaurd6]

Free Market Ghana! go!

[Ravengaurd6]

@Ashley11993 in the west we have a certain political party that plays up victimization for power. this un-named party shows it's proponents and target audiences in a pathetic light to gain votes from a public on the grounds that said party will fix the problems of its "pathetic" subjects by giving them free stuff and in no way allowing them to have agency over resources for themselves.

[missjtunde]

it is not rite how they project africa 2 b such a bad place. a lot of placess in africa r nicer than in america.

[missjtunde]

i agree with ashley11993and xxShAniBOOXx.Finally someone knows the right idea

[live2sellgroup]

What are the things the world should do to help these people?

[soulbrosampson]

The video is inspiring, a few years ago I posted singing praise for this wonderful business. Upon return to Ghana, Busy is not what it used to be with negative changes that could be reversed:

1. poor customer service by some employees who are just doing the job without concern about customer satisfaction.

2. Its no longer 24 hours a day

3. Laptops can no longer use ethernet, now only an unusably slow wifi for them

4. Computers are becoming old and outdated.

5. Cafe and food services are gone

[cheddarboyzz313]

There is nothing negative about this clip. Ghanians are business people more so than Americans who rely on a company to hire them. What if Americans never had that option like the Ghanians?? This video is inspiring!

[elegance212]

@josepercudani didn't you hear the man when he said Africa missed the Industrial Revolution? eh? Because we were still being colonized. Your parents are probably older than Ghana, so cut us some slack, we are trying, we can't be a developed country in just a day. Took the U.S centuries to reach where it is today. You think that 50 years after 1776 America was the way it is now?